This critic might want to look for a different job. The prospect of seeing the great Ian McKellen take on the role of one of London’s most august theater critics of the 1930s must have looked ...

“How on earth do you live with yourself?” someone inquires of the titular newspaper scribe in “The Critic.” Joyously, seems to be the answer: When Jimmy Erskine sweeps into a theater, licking his lips ...

Some years ago, I gave a talk to the graduating seniors at a local school. Whatever I said that night — probably something about the importance of books and reading — has utterly vanished from my ...