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Edward Albee's 'Fam and Yam,' a 1960 one-act inspired by the author's encounter with Broadway playwright William Inge, remerges at Venice's Pacific Resident Theatre.
My favorite things: Real-life jazzman Dexter Gordon’s spellbinding performance is at the heart of Tavernier’s Paris-set and music-rich drama
Last modified on Mon 12 Apr 2021 13.35 EDT It was the fate of Arthur Kopit, who has died aged 83 from progressive dementia, to be labelled in theatrical dictionaries as a serious and inventive playwright who rarely achieved popular acceptance. His biggest success came as the librettist of the Broadway musical Nine (1982) – a classy elaboration of Fellini’s classic movie 8½ – with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. But he made his name as a shooting star in the off-Broadway theatre of the early 1960s alongside Edward Albee, Jack Gelber and the Living Theatre, placing his marker with the ...
Karel Reisz & Tony Richardson, 1955 One of the foundation stones of British Free Cinema, this 22-minute short shows trad antics at Wood Green Jazz Club, with the Chris Barber Band featuring Lonnie Donegan. Years later, Absolute Beginners (Julien Temple, 1985) would be derided for its high-gloss reimagining of the London jazz scene in its heyday, but with input from Gil Evans and a dazzling fantasia on Charles Mingus’s Boogie Stop Shuffle, it’s not to be dismissed. The Connection Shirley Clarke, 1961 Jazz was as vital to the new American independent cinema of the 1950s and 60s as it wa...