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The private manner of his death betrayed the poet?s secret world. Only his family, his publisher and a tightly knit circle of close friends knew that Ted Hughes, the British poet laureate and by common consent one of the 20th century?s greatest writers, had cancer and had been...
Fans were shocked, but unsurprised that he had chosen to keep the illness to himself. This was, after all, a man who struggled quietly for 35 years with the emotions bequeathed to him by the suicide of his first wife, the tortured American poet Sylvia Plath. His refusal to speak...
"Birthday Letters" was quite a departure. Hughes? main talent lay in his powerful depiction of the savagery of nature -? the brutally Darwinian animal world, the intense reality of the English countryside -? and a mournfully steady eye for detail first praised by his mentor T.S. Eliot. He was not a natural...
No American city has so successfully reinvented itself as many times as Las Vegas. The only constants in Las Vegas--from the dream of Bugsy Siegel to the haunt of the Rat Pack to a collection of theme hotels evoking other times and places--have been the gambling and the...
The American Repertory Theater's (A.R.T.) production, under the direction of Marcus Stern, is keenly aware of the subtle emotional requirements of the play. All aspects of the production combine to give a startling and witty interpretation of Durang's wacky portrait of love, marriage and family. Before the actors...