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Jan 4, 1992 · When she appeared in a 1936 production of "Hamlet" at the Empire Theater, Brooks Atkinson wrote that in her performance as Hamlet's mother, the queen, she had "abandoned the matronly stuffiness...
May 2, 1982 · One of the brightest performances ever to light up Broadway was that of Judith Anderson in ''Medea,'' of which Brooks Atkinson wrote in 1947: ''It would be useless now for anyone else...
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. Brooks Atkinson. New Year, Memories, Holiday.
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
- Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. Brooks Atkinson. Sea, Land, Pirate.
- This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
Atkinson wrote favorably about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and against the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, which he saw as reactionary and corrupt. After visiting Yenan, he wrote that the Communist movement's political system was best described as an "agrarian or peasant democracy, or as a farm labor party."
Jan 4, 1992 · Dame Judith Anderson, who electrified Broadway audiences in 1947 with her savage performance of the title role in Medea and was a memorably sinister housekeeper in the 1940 film Rebecca, died...
Dec 10, 2019 · Since 1975, Judith Anderson (or Mrs Danvers) has become the poster girl for scholarly analyses of lesbian sexuality in film. As Patricia White points out , “ Rebecca figures as insistently in feminist film theory as does Rebecca in the second Mrs de Winter’s psyche.”
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Mar 5, 2009 · Brooks Atkinson’s original 1938 review of the New York City debut of “Our Town,” in which he notes that “Nothing happens in the play that is normal and natural and ordinary,” which, he says,...
