columns by Frank Rich

Writing about The Iceman Cometh in 1985, Frank Rich of The New York Times raved, "the word 'masterwork' is not invoked lightly. Eugene O'Neill's tragic vision remains undiminished by time. The Iceman Cometh is a ferocious American classic that has lost none of its power to send one shaking into the ...

There's no surprise in finding a heavy influence from classic musical theatre at the heart of these films; New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich famously called Beauty and the Beast's score the “best Broadway musical score of 1991.” Jodi Benson. Benson, on the other hand, was well-versed in musical ...

I remember Frank Rich -- who's now executive producer of Veep, but at the time he was writing for The New York Times and New York, I believe -- wrote ... So when I read that column by Kathleen Parker, and in it she was discussing post-election how what, regardless of right or left, we have lost is class and ...

New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich leads a conversation with McNally, director Jeff Kaufman, actor/director Joe Mantello, and actors Nathan ... 9:30 PM: The Fourth Estate (World Premiere, Closing Night) Join the filmmakers and journalists from The New York Times following the closing night film ...

Opinions. They can be strong. And also fleeting. Anyone who has written a review — whether for Yelp or for a major newspaper — understands this. What critic hasn't wondered if what she thinks now will endure five, 10 or even 50 years later? Here are four reviews by four critics and writers for The New ...

Writing about The Iceman Cometh in 1985, Frank Rich of The New York Times raved, "the word 'masterwork' is not invoked lightly. Eugene O'Neill's tragic vision remains undiminished by time. The Iceman Cometh is a ferocious American classic that has lost none of its power to send one shaking into the ...

Writing about The Iceman Cometh in 1985, Frank Rich of The New York Times raved, "the word 'masterwork' is not invoked lightly. Eugene O'Neill's tragic vision remains undiminished by time. The Iceman Cometh is a ferocious American classic that has lost none of its power to send one shaking into the ...

The usually scathing former New York Times critic Frank Rich called Michael Frayn's “Noises Off,” “the funniest play written in my lifetime.” Yet to pull off this 1982 nine-character farce about a second-rate theater company attempting to mount a silly sex comedy — seen from behind the set as well as in front ...

Writing about the original animated film, New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich famously described Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's work as “the best Broadway musical score of 1991,” even though it wasn't on Broadway at that time. Lightbulbs illuminated at Disney, because three years later, a stage ...

The festival's closing-night film will be the world premiere of Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus' documentary The Fourth Estate, which follows The New York Times as it covers Donald Trump's first year as president. That screening will be followed by a conversation with Garbus and the Times' executive ...

The article is part of a special report about the ecological crisis facing Louisiana's coast, the product of a partnership between The Times and NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune of New ... Here's the Times review by Frank Rich, who years later would call it “the worst play I've ever seen on a Broadway stage.”.

[The New York Times] ... On Sunday, Russia's divided opposition groups united to mourn the third anniversary of the death of Boris Nemtsov, the outspoken Kremlin critic who was killed ... Here's the Times review by Frank Rich, who years later would call it “the worst play I've ever seen on a Broadway stage.

(In a 2011 New York magazine debate about the greatest musicals, the critic Frank Rich said “I love Carousel” — to which the writer Nora Ephron responded: “Yes, but you're a boy.”) “There weren't many concerns when it was first staged in 1945, and most productions in the '50s and '60s tended to move ...

It wasn't just London critics who were raving: The New York Times' Frank Rich praised the play's “poetic and churning” theatrical world, a place, once entered, “simply cannot be escaped.” And Ian McKellen, at that year's Tony Awards in New York, famously told the world, “You wait until it comes here—it's ...

"This is code red," he wrote. "The biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the Oval Office." Friedman's column lit up on social media when it was posted on NYTimes.com on Sunday night. Thirty six hours later, it is still No. 1 on the site's "most emailed articles" list. It is also No. 1 on the site's ...

After tweeting about Olympian Mirai Nagasu, New York Times op-ed editor Bari Weiss sparked a larger conversation about inclusion, identity politics, and the precision of language. ... But she didn't give an inch, retweeting a series of articles that identified Nagasu's parents—not Nagasu—as immigrants.

When “Angels in America” premiered on Broadway in 1993, The New York Times's Frank Rich called it “the most thrilling American play in years.” Tony Kushner's two-part epic about American life, set against the AIDS crisis and Ronald Reagan's presidency, quickly became, by consensus, one of the 20th ...

Laura Ingraham, Rupert Murdoch's new all-in Trump host at Fox News, pointedly told the New York Times on the eve of her prime-time show's premiere .... It's been an article of American faith for more than half a century that the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 was the tragic bolt from the blue that ...