"Power...influence...changing the course of history. It's all in a day's work." This is a line stated by the main character of THE COLUMNIST. I love when theater merges history and fiction to tell a story that I never heard before about a fascinating life. THE COLUMNIST, playing at the Manhattan Theatre Club is one such play. It's about a real journalist named Joseph Alsop who upon a visit to Moscow in 1957 picked up a young man at a party and brought him back to his hotel. This is the first scene in the play. When you're … [Read more...]
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