David Gordon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

David Gordon

News (to me, at least): Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw are among the producers of Good Night, Oscar on Broadway. (Spielberg's second time as an above the title producer on a show - the first being Aaron Sorkin's The Farnsworth Invention)

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"I never expected that Leopoldstadt, a new play from London that might be the last work from well-loved, legendary, 85-year-old author Tom Stoppard, would be such a big hit," said the New York theater community, puzzled by the success of Leopoldstadt.

David Gordon

I regret not asking Sondheim if he and James Goldman named Buddy and Sally from Follies after Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie’s characters from the Dick Van Dyke Show

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I started my career by covering local City Council meetings so I can happily say that Tracy Letts captures their level of sinister mundanity so well in THE MINUTES, as perfectly acted an ensemble show as there ever was.

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David Hare clearly got the idea for Straight Line Crazy when he was caught in traffic going across town, and as someone who is routinely stuck on the Cross Island leading up to the one-lane Throgs Neck Bridge when I live one exit past it, I can safely say, Fuck Robert Moses.

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Plaza Suite delighted me far more than it did the other critics. I don’t know what people were expecting from a 54 year old Neil Simon play that has always been just OK that the Parker-Brodericks and their friends made for fun before going to the Hamptons for the summer.

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A pleasure to chat (albeit briefly, Zoom junket-style) with Brendan Fraser and Samuel D. Hunter about putting The Whale together. Brendan's performance is as heartbreaking as everyone has said, & so is Sam's adaptation. https://t.co/DacLTssOwH

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After zooming through THE WIRE late last year, I just finished George Pelecanos & @AoDespair’s fantastic latest, WE OWN THIS CITY. In a sea of great performances, @jonnybernthal @MrJoshCharles, and @JamieHector are doing the kind of acting any creator dreams about.

David Gordon

Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop is far and away the best Broadway musical of the 2021-22 season, interrogating, challenging, and reshaping the art form and taking it to new emotional heights.

David Gordon

"I never expected that Leopoldstadt, a new play from London that might be the last work from well-loved, legendary, 85-year-old author Tom Stoppard, would be such a big hit," said the New York theater community, puzzled by the success of Leopoldstadt.