Kim Stanley Robinson on the importance of science fiction Sep 17, 2009
THIS was Virginia Woolf's reply to the influential science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon after he had sent her a copy of his recently published novel Star Maker. In an earlier exchange of letters, she made it clear that she had also enjoyed previous works of his, probably including Last and First Men from 1931. (Harper's Magazine)
The Mysteries Behind Society's Most Famous Suicides Sep 15, 2009
Focusing on 20 famous figures who took their own lives, Death Becomes Them provides the back stories behind the tragic and manic last days of icons ranging from Kurt Cobain to Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf. Equally sad and shocking, Strauss' profiles help fans and cult-followers better understand how these brilliant, tortured souls crossed the line from depression to self-destruction. (Time.com)
Many fall theater productions are tied to films Sep 13, 2009
The Publick Theatre Boston will present Edward Albee s scorching drama of marital combat, Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ... Indeed, Publick Theatre Boston artistic director Diego Arciniegas, who is directing the Publick s Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ... WHO S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. (Boston Globe)
Bring home the bacon, for less Sep 7, 2009
Virginia Woolf once said that one cannot think well, love well or sleep well if one has not dined well. I cannot agree more. (iAfrica.com)
Bloomsbury letters go for 50,000 Sep 4, 2009
Virginia Woolf was the most notable member of the group ... The letters, from 1919 to 1947, are between Helen Anrep and members such as Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Critic’s corner Aug 14, 2009
Aw, who s afraid of Virginia Woolf. Supernanny. (Boston Globe)
‘The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?’ at Gloucester Stage Aug 13, 2009
(Remember Burton and Taylor in the film of the Albee classic Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The Gloucester Stage presents The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia. (Boston Globe)
‘The Goat’ goes from farce to tragedy at Gloucester Stage Aug 12, 2009
In its scenes of marital skirmishing, with words (and the occasional vase) flying to and fro, The Goat at times summons echoes of Albee s Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. But the stakes never seem as high as in that masterwork, partly because Martin, unlike George in Virginia Woolf, is more bemused spectator than fully engaged combatant. (Boston Globe)
Berkeley Rep Announces Creative Team for Green Day's American Idiot Jul 29, 2009
She also designed New York Universitys productions of Hair and Our Lady of 121st Street, as well as numerous shows for the Alley Theatre including After the Fall, And Then There Were None, Black Comedy, The Crucible, Fully Committed, Glengarry Glen Ross, Proof, Steel Magnolias, The Thirteenth Chair, The Woman in Black, Wait Until Dark, and Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Lauers upcoming work includes Or with Womens Project and a new ballet for the Trey McIntyre Experience. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
61 postmodern reads Jul 25, 2009
The thing about postmodernism is it's impossible to pin down exactly what might make a book postmodern. In looking at the attributes of the essential postmodern reads, we found some were downright contradictory. (Harper's Magazine)
Photographers' work separated by time - and visual style Jul 24, 2009
In two of the Camerons, Jackson bears a truly startling resemblance to her daughter, Virginia Woolf. There are also photographs of family friends, several of whose names remain recognizable today: the poet Alfred Tennyson, the painters George Frederick Watts and William Holman Hunt. (Boston Globe)
'Virginia Woolf's beach' sold for 80,000 Jul 15, 2009
Virginia Woolf's beach' sold for 80,000 - Yahoo ... Virginia Woolf's beach' sold for 80,000 ... A windswept beach on the southern tip of Cornwall which is thought to have inspired the Virginia Woolf classic 'To The Lighthouse', has been sold at auction for pound80,000. (Yahoo! Asia News)
interview with Joseph ONeill Jul 14, 2009
What can be more comforting than hearing Bellow, answering a question on preparations and conception, admit "Well, I don't know exactly how it's done. The best part of this collection? The "Volume I" in the title, with its promise of more volumes to come. See, were not all literary fiction here. Princeton Architectural Presss absolutely breathtaking Above Paris is very much the kind of thing were eager to bring to your attention. Between 1950 and 1972, pilot and photographer Roger... (Harper's Magazine)
The Trouble With Greatness Jul 14, 2009
Virginia Woolf was suicidal. Ike was a grade-A asshole to Tina. (Slate)
Cornish bids welcome as Virginia Woolf's lighthouse goes to auction Jul 13, 2009
Upton Towans beach in Gwithian and the lighthouse on nearby Godrevy Island are widely thought to have inspired the Virginia Woolf novel To the Lighthouse ... Although Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel is set in the Hebrides, the author used her recollections from childhood as inspiration for her most famous novel ... " Public accessA few years ago Mr Arbon gifted the stretch of land to the Hall for Cornwall theatre. The idea was that the land could be sold when the theatre needed more funding and it... (BBC News -- Europe)
The Citizen's Cinema Jul 9, 2009
"As April and Frank Wheeler, a '50s couple locked into the monotony of traditional provider/homemaker gender roles, Winslet and DiCaprio each convey their own form of desperation that fuels a decision to leave their safe suburban world behind and move to Paris. The change in scenery will not only give grounded actress April a chance to bear the economic weight of their existence, it'll allow Frank the free time to find his calling in life - which most certainly isn't selling computers.Their... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Today in History Jul 6, 2009
Thought for Today: "On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points." Virginia Woolf, English author and critic (1882-1941). Related Searches. (Yahoo News)
Lions of Victorian theatre Jul 5, 2009
Perhaps her scattery character is the reason; the best description came from Virginia Woolf: There is something in her that she did not understand. She cannot sustain emotion. (Boston Globe)
'Away We Go' Jun 26, 2009
Movies about warring or chilly couples, such as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" or "Ordinary People," may give actors something to sink their teeth into, but stories about love gone right have their place, too. And "Away We Go" is just that, with two for the road. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Uncompromising rebel with an artistic cause Jun 26, 2009
It was awarded when his famous 1962 drama Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf ... "When Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was originally produced, it cost $US40,000 but the Broadway revival cost $1.6 million," says Albee, who is leading script workshops for Inscription at the National Institute of Dramatic Art ... " The playwright, who lives in a New York loft crammed with sculpture and abstract art, describes himself as a Luddite. He prefers writing his plays in longhand rather than use a computer. He... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Boring Marriages vs. Failed Relationships Jun 23, 2009
Virginia Woolf, no slouch in the achievement department, may have had one of the most boring marriages of all time. But she liked it. (Slate)
A Car of Ones Own, Andrew OHagan,London Review of Books Jun 17, 2009
Virginia Woolf was almost right: all one really needs is a car of ones own, the funds to keep it on the road and the will to encounter oneself within. Though most of those men arent listening to Virginia Woolf theyre listening to Dylans Highway 61 Revisited. (Harper's Magazine)
A Nation of Drivers Jun 16, 2009
Virginia Woolf was almost right: all one really needs is a car of one s own, the funds to keep it on the road and the will to encounter oneself within. Though most of those men aren t listening to Virginia Woolf they re listening to Dylan s Highway 61 Revisited. (The American Conservative)
When Women Blew Up American Poetry Jun 3, 2009
It was what Virginia Woolf would have called a moment of beingeverything I knew becoming obsolete in a blaze of realization. How was a thinking woman to worship at the altars of faiths that supported what we now called patriarchy. (Slate)
Edward Albee writes prequel to 'Zoo Story' Jun 1, 2009
The savage wit, sharp ear for contemporary speech, telling surreal touches and underlying anger that first surfaced in "Zoo Story" have continued to surprise, offend and delight audiences in plays from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" to "Three Tall Women" and "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?" ever since. Meanwhile, the short, dense park bench confrontation between the passive, academic Peter and the intrusive, talkative loner Jerry has remained one of the most popular plays of each decade. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
A Personal and Cultural History of Migraines May 31, 2009
In 1910, Virginia Woolf, sensing a headache coming on, prepped herself for inspiration. "I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe," she wrote in a letter to her sister. (Time.com)
It's time for an ambitious new literature of the workplace May 31, 2009
But that is not to say it doesn't exist - no less than that it was hard for readers to see the interest of an ordinary afternoon in London until Virginia Woolf pointed it out for them, or to note the manifold richness of the act of going to sleep until Proust started to write. If much of life's value rests in work, and if novelists are concerned with forging a literature of meaning rather than romance or aesthetic gestures, then they should turn their eyes to material quite unlike what we... (Boston Globe)
Nightmaster aka Watch the Shadows D... May 29, 2009
These days Nicole Kidman is known for starring in middlebrow dramas like The Hours, in which she played Virginia Woolf who famously drowned herself in a pond, a fate that is far preferable than having to sit through The Hours. Hollywood has turned Kidman into a movie Princess, with all the piety it expects from its leading ladies. (Suite101.com)
* SUNDAY PROFILE: Morrissey: the man behind the miserable mask May 24, 2009
All are titles stolen from the big-mouthed bards own songs; fitting tributes to a man who has spent the last three decades plagiarizing ideas from Warhol and Virginia Woolf, from Patti Smith and Sandie Shaw, from Alan Bennett and George Eliot, from the New York Dolls and Anthony Newley, from the TV soap Coronation Street and the Carry On films. As a recent two-day Irish symposium on his lyricism showed, international academics now queue up alongside the passionate fans to celebrate Morrissey... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Reynolds Price crafts a rich memoir in 'Ardent Spirits' May 24, 2009
"You were the one with words. You were the one who knew how to take an event and describe it so that its essence was revealed. I do not have your talents," says Vanessa Bell, comparing herself with her sister Virginia Woolf. She is unfortunately right. (Boston Globe)
Upturned Earth">Upturned Earth May 14, 2009
We cannot, as Virginia Woolf declared, ever truly and fully know the Greeks because we cannot know what we have to know them through their poetry, their music, their performance as they knew them. There are two ways to encounter a work: directly, in that initial experience of reading or listening or observing; and later, indirectly, through memory and consideration and reflection. (The American Conservative)
Review: Lane-Irwin balance emotions in 'Godot' May 1, 2009
Anthony Page directed Irwin in the clear-headed 2005 revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Page's work here is equally crisp. There is one more character in "Godot," a boy, alternately played at Studio 54 by Cameron Clifford and Matthew Schechter. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Eileen Chang's fractured legacy Apr 29, 2009
Her sensibility could be described as the acute social and emotional observation of Cao Xueqin (author of Dream of the Red Chamber) filtered through the sensibility of Virginia Woolf. She secured her fame with a series of jewel-like short stories of manners, morals and folly including The Golden Cangue and Love in a Fallen City. (Asia Times Online)
Valley happenings Apr 17, 2009
Maureen Adams, author of "Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton and Emily Bronte," was featured on NPR's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" show last Sunday. Adams husband, Marty Adams, served as winemaker at Sebastiani and as a principal in Sonoma Cheese Factory for several years. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Rise and shine Mar 28, 2009
Big break Company B's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. which was directed by Benedict Andrews. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Kylie and Judy left out of gay icon list Mar 28, 2009
Smith's other choice was Virginia Woolf, who had a passionate affair with Vita Sackville-West. Toksvig's choices include the 19th-century French sculptor Rosa Bonheur, the gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, and kd lang, "just for being gorgeous". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Rumble in the living room Mar 25, 2009
But there's a reason that Punch and Judy's avatars have fascinated audiences for so many centuries in cultural forms low ("The Honeymooners" of 1950s television) and high (Edward Albee's 1962 drama "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"). "God of Carnage," which is poised somewhere in between, definitely delivers the cathartic release of watching other people's marriages go boom. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Seascape' a dynamic piece left unfinished Mar 13, 2009
The remainder of the action suggests what might have been the early days of George and Martha, before the cataclysmic night of binge drinking that makes up "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" But, unlike George, the young man in Nigro's play doesn't fight back. And his passivity in accepting abuse carries its own pathology that his halo of unconditional love doesn't erase. (Honolulu Advertiser)
DVD Review of Australia Mar 12, 2009
With the exception of her Academy Award-winning performance as Virginia Woolf, Nicole Kidman nearly always plays the same character: haughty, icy woman of European descent (usually English) whose eventual romantic slumming results in dramatic change. It s as though Tom Cruise might burst on the scene at any moment (with his horrible Irish accent) eager to box for her honor. (Suite101.com)
The Groves of Hackademe Feb 24, 2009
But when it comes to college and university professors, they tend to be portrayed either as comical buffoons (The Nutty Professor, Monkey Business, Son of Flubber, The Absent Minded Professor, It Happens Every Spring, Horse Feathers) or as petty, demented and, often as not, alcoholics (Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, People Will Talk, The Squid and the Whale). In fact, the last time I recall a movie about a professor that any normal person... (Townhall.com)
Turner limps onto Broadway Feb 21, 2009
Turner has been twice-nominated for a Tony award for her stage performances, most recently in 2005 for her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She went on to receive the Evening Standard Award for best actress, after the play transferred to London in 2006. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
* Talking to Robert Wilson Feb 20, 2009
Orlando is a true collaboration in that it incorporates a Western vocabulary of movement and images, based on Virginia Woolfs text of Orlando and deriving from my background as an architect, from my life in the theater, and from my work as a visual artist ... I next made the point that, though love was central to Virginia Woolfs original book, she seemed herself in some ways a rather a cold, sex-less figure, and some of this is apparent in the novel ... I think Virginia Woolf is a formal... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Obituaries in the news Feb 17, 2009
Among Atheneum's releases were Theodore White's "The Making of the President, 1960," Frederic Morton's "The Rothschilds: A Family Portrait" and Edward Albee's play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." The company published one of Mario Puzo's books but declined to publish "The Godfather.". In later years, the company merged with Charles Scribner's Sons to form Scribner Book Companies. (Anchorage Daily News)
"It's the best car I've ever owned" Feb 12, 2009
"The way the car is balanced it will never flip over no matter how far you're going or how quickly you have to change direction or swerve. It is so perfectly balanced," says the Broadway star who has graced the stage in numerous productions including Annie Get Your Gun; Les Miserables; Piaf; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; Tartuffe; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. and Rock 'n' Roll just to name a few. (Globe and Mail)
Eye on the Oscars: Tech Roundup Feb 11, 2009
This cinematic season presents a veritable deluge of onscreen sparrings between leading actors not seen since anguished, booze-soaked married couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton slugged it out in Mike Nichols' 1966 classic "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". Reasons why, or why not, each nom might grab the gold statue. (Variety)
VIDEO: Marshfield seniors iron out Wrinkles before performances Feb 8, 2009
Member Claire Robinson is doing her third show, and plays Elizabeth, who is married to Robert, with whom her character has a Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. type relationship. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Heads of the class Feb 8, 2009
Like Virginia Woolf, she values her space, and isn t afraid to say so. But things don t work that way in Siam. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
