Category Archives: Theater

Dustin Chin: Another #AngryAsians Playwright

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Max West

This essay is cross-posted at Counter-Currents.  The #AngryAsians motif continually fascinates, especially given their relatively well-to-do economic position in our ‘white supremacist’ society, and the proliferation of plays and other writings by them that villainize, ostracize, and ‘Other-ize’ white people … Continue reading →

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The Sound of Anxiety

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Max West

“‘The Dreyfus Affair’ and the Sound of Anxiety” is a NYT review of a new play on… The Dreyfus Affair. The toxic mess of nationalism and anti-Semitism known as the Dreyfus Affair deeply divided France in the late 19th century, … Continue reading →

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Peter O’Toole & Orson Welles on Hamlet

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Max West

From 1963, here is a bombastic Orson Welles and an unpretentiously cerebral Peter O’Toole, discussing Hamlet. O’Toole was playing Hamlet in a Laurence Olivier-directed production at the National Theatre. (The host is Huw Wheldon and the older actor is Ernest … Continue reading →

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Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Max West

I’m in the middle of reading The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements by Kevin MacDonald. Last week I watched Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy on PBS (video here.) In parallel … Continue reading →

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