From The Vineyard Gazette (Massachusetts)

Not enough critics and academics put themselves on the line and practise the art they preach. That great provocateur Robert Brustein is this summer staging his new play Spring Forward, Fall Back on Martha's Vineyard, where he has kept a home for over 40 years. Here he remembers the island's glory days, before Hollywood found it, and his own boyhood in New York City -- starting point for "a play about the loss of Jewish identity."

 

From The Toronto Star

Martin Short's Broadway-bound musical satire Fame Becomes Me has been picking up some pretty sorry reviews on the road. But co-writer Daniel Goldfarb is nothing if not a team player.

 

From The People's Daily Online (China)

In Hong Kong, playwright David Henry (M. Butterfly, Golden Child) Hwang says he wants to write a play about the misunderstandings that arise between Americans and the Chinese. But personally, I'll be awaiting more eagerly his musical about Bruce Lee.