Memories of Wendy Wasserstein (October 18, 1950-January 30, 2006) while watching An American Daughter at the Pershing Square Signature Center in NYC

by Neil | Sep 4, 2026 | Uncategorized

Thursday evening, September 3, 2026 – Sitting in the audience at Irene Diamond Stage at Signature Theatre on West 42nd Street, I was ostensibly paying attention to the revival-revision by La Femme Theatre Productions of Wendy Wasserstein’s 1997 play, An...

A first glimpse behind the scenes in the spectacular new Martha Graham venue on the 11th floor at 1501 Broadway – The Paramount Building.

by Neil | Aug 29, 2026 | Uncategorized

Friday, August 28, 2026 – 10:00 a.m. – With the director of the Martha Graham School, Ashley Brown, as my hyper-aware guide, I walked dizzily through the labyrinthine, astonishingly vast new Martha Graham studios, practice and conference rooms,...

Can it really be thirty years since my biography, Edison: Inventing the Century, was published…?

by Neil | Aug 29, 2026 | Uncategorized

…and almost one hundred fifty years since Thomas A. Edison began his experimentation with the electric light? Marshall Fox, a reporter for the New York Herald, predicted that by the New Year, 1879, “The Wizard of Menlo Park, after ‘nourishing a youth...

Frederic Edwin Church & intimations of antiquity – Cotopaxi at the Detroit Institute of Arts

by Neil | Aug 21, 2026 | Uncategorized

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A moment with a dear colleague at Jacob’s Pillow

by Neil | Aug 20, 2026 | Uncategorized

Wednesday evening, August 12, 2026 – Blake’s Barn – Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival – Becket, Massachusetts – My wife, Roberta (who took this picture) and I had half an hour to spare before the season premiere of The Martha Graham...