Charles Marowitz

Every so often, usually on a weekend, I would meet Jan Kott in Santa Monica for coffee and a bagel. As he‘d been weaned in the seedier cafes of Paris and Warsaw, this was a cozy reminder of the bohemian life he led before becoming an academic, a critic, a......

In October 1953, while he was rehearsing for N.C. Hunter’s play A Day by the Sea at London’s Haymarket Theatre, John Gielgud was arrested for importuning a young man in Chelsea and booked at a local police station. It being Gielgud and a knight of the realm, the news made......