Tag: Harold Pinter
'Thom Yorke to Compose Original Score for Pinter Play 'Old Times' at Roundabout Theater
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'The Column: Steven Berkoff in Harold Pinter's 'Birthday Party'...What Did William Friedkin Expect?
Iconoclastic actor and director Steven Berkoff is in the news again. Let's face it, he has never been shy of standing up for his opinions in front of journalists (and nothing wrong with that), and now the Los Angeles Times carries his insistence that he quit the forthcoming (now delayed) production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. The show was to have opened this month at the Geffen Playhouse, also starring Tim Roth, but Berkoff, in the crucial role of the sinister Goldstein, has left, and the opening has been put back. William Friedkin, the show's director, says he was all but fired -
'Classicalite's Top 10 of 2013: B. Samuels on Theater
Just as resident art historian Ross Smirnoff cited his Top 10 of 2013, B. Samuels, Classicalite's esteemed theater critic, hath spoken out on those productions that deserve special aesthetic accolades.