Curtain Call: Are You For Sale?
As spring finally seems to be bursting out over a thawing Gotham, so the House of SpeakEasy is bursting with excitement about the line-up for next Tuesday’s show. It’s quite the team:...
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Rendez-Vous With New French Writing
French screenwriters are unstoppable at the moment. Two of the best films of the last five years — Michael Haneke’s Amour and Leos Carax’s Holy Motors — hailed from France;...
read moreBloody Brilliant Michael Friedman
Michael Friedman is the composer and lyricist behind an astonishing range of theatrical output over the last fifteen years. He wrote his first musical for The Civilians, a downtown theatre group he...
read moreBlog Post of a Wimpy Kid
6 March marked this year’s World Book Day in the UK, so time once again for Professor Keith Topping of the University of Dundee to publish his annual “What Kids Are Reading” report...
read more“everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes”: Susan Cheever’s E.E. Cummings: A Life
Susan Cheever’s new biography of E.E. Cummings (Pantheon Books, 2014), “one of the great and most important American poets”, begins with the two of them meeting. By the second half of his career...
read moreJay McInerney’s The Good Life
In a 2005 article for the Guardian entitled “The uses of invention”, Jay McInerney set out to counter the prevalent concern that literature was no longer up to the task, following 9/11,...
read moreThis Is Not A Man
Alexander Pope recited in the style of William Shatner. A French general, born into slavery in Saint-Domingue, locked in a war of attrition with Napoleon Bonaparte. A live link to Hollywood during...
read moreThe Chronicles of Fry
Many times while reading The Fry Chronicles, Stephen Fry’s bestselling memoir, I was forced to confront sadly the likelihood that the world will no longer need my autobiography. Not that he...
read moreCurtain Call: This Is Not A Man
We’re just days away from our February show, “This Is Not a Man”. Speechless with excitement, it seems only right that we hand over to our six guests to introduce themselves. So...
read moreA Thousand Natural Shocks: The Novels of Susan Minot
Susan Minot’s latest book, Thirty Girls (Knopf, 2014), is her first novel in over a decade and a significant departure from her earlier work. The girls of the title are the real-life prisoners...
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