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Articles Written by: LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Who is This?
Lawrence Van Gelder is an American journalist and instructor in journalism who has worked at several different New York City-based newspapers in his long career. He is currently a senior editor of the Arts and Leisure weekly section of The New York Times.
On the Money: Cartoons for The New Yorker
Senator, above, a pen-and-ink drawing by Joseph Farris, is one of more than 80 works
on view at the Morgan Library & Museum in this exhibition, which closes on Sunday.
The latest on the arts, coverage of live ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
22 May 2009
"Zing Zang Zoom": One of Mr. Gravity's "heavies" after a trick in which he's "cut in half" at the Ringling Brothers' Circus at Nassau Coliseum.
For a true indicator of the advent of spring, nothing beats the arrival of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
27 Mar 2009
Three Murray Schisgal plays that examine generations of Jewish life in America, presented under the title “Shpiel! Shpiel! Shpiel!,” are the new attraction from the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene in its 94th consecutive season.
Stuart Marshall, ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
25 Mar 2009
So deft and penetrating is the 1963 Bernard Malamud fable “The Jewbird” that no one could be faulted for yearning to adapt it for the stage.
Jon Adam Ross performing in "The Jewbird" at the Sanford Meisner Theater.
The results are a different matter, ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
17 Mar 2009
No wonder the unemployment rate is so high. At the Helen Hayes Theater, a mere four actors have been taking on 150 roles in “39 Steps.” And now at the New Victory Theater, in a retelling of “Jason and the Argonauts,” only two actors are portraying the 5 ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
28 Jan 2009
An old message comes in a new rapper at the Duke on 42nd Street, where the Green Thumb Theater of Vancouver, British Columbia, is presenting "Cranked." The message is: say no to drugs.
The specific drug is crystal meth, the powerfully addictive form of ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
19 Jan 2009
If a production line cranked out adjectives to appraise “Birdhouse Factory,” the results would certainly include exceptional, evocative, eye-catching, ear-catching and, to keep the list short, engrossingly entertaining.
This roughly 90-minute, ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
19 Nov 2008
In an economic climate chill enough to frost the ledgers at the Scrooge & Marley counting house, the glow of Christmas spirit has been rekindled. “The Radio City Christmas Spectacular” has returned, bringing once more to the center of Manhattan its ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
14 Nov 2008
As the Middle Ages give way to the Renaissance, profound love, dark desire, heartbreak, murder and injustice unfold on the stage of the New Victory Theater in a captivating retelling of the Victor Hugo novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
Using ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
31 Oct 2008
On the lighter side, capering mutts rescued from dog pounds star in Luciano Anastasinis Syncopated Canines routine.
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And everywhere from start to finish, from bandstands and a tent decorated with clef notes and staffs to the performing ...
From LAWRENCE VAN GELDER,
The New York Times,
30 Oct 2008
