A Green Light for Sondheim. "Gold," the long-awaited Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical, is scheduled for a full production at the Goodman Theater in Chicago in June 2003.
By Jesse Mckinley. [New York Times: Arts]
Knickers in a Twist, or Panties With a Mind of Their Own. Steve Martin has adaptated a German farce from 1910, and it's valiantly, if not always brilliantly, eccentric. By Bruce Weber.
[New York Times: Arts]
And Rosie's Still Riveting. Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" will be used for auction advertisements and marketing brochures, and will be on the cover of a catalog.
By Carol Vogel. [New York Times: Arts]
Cinema à la Warhol, With Cowboys, Stillness and Glamour. Film and video art is plentiful in New York galleries these days, confirming that film-based work is in robust health.
By Holland Cotter. [New York Times: Arts]
«R.V. Cassill, the man of letters who was a novelist, short-story writer, editor, book reviewer and teacher of creative writing, died last Monday at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. He was 82 and lived in Providence and Truro, Mass.»
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I attended Verland Cassill's creative writing class at Brown. He had the considerable and rare virtue of being an artist who also had the compassion to be a superb instructor.