One of the most common reactions to this question: “Don’t be so sensitive. Criticizing doesn’t make someone mean.”

Viertel tells many backstage stories about how the directors and composers managed to avoid a disaster, sometimes only a few hours ahead of opening night.

Reno’s portrait of contemporary American society is bold and grim.

That is, if the promise of the New Testament is to be true that we might transcend our thorniest divisions.

Bitter, brilliant controversy wracked each stage of the evolution of The Way and its allied academic institutions.

McFarlane says that she is “drawn to moments when people do things that are mysterious even to themselves.” The best-realized stories here are charged with these moments.