How Could I Be Friends With John Simon?
I was spared his famous fury, thankfully, but once I met him, we spoke—and argued—often about the theatre we both loved.
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I was spared his famous fury, thankfully, but once I met him, we spoke—and argued—often about the theatre we both loved.
He made his name with vitriol, but ultimately the role of critical scourge began to play him.
What a mystery it is that these tiny and ever-shrinking dramacules—these death rattles—can bring so much life to the theatre.