Ink recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, “a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit,” and in a year’s time made it a wildly popular populist tabloid, having turned “ugly into an art form,” as a character says in James Graham’s play. The character, Larry Lamb […]
Archives for April 26, 2019
Fresh from receiving a Pulitzer, Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview will kick off Woolly Mammoth’s 40th season
Woolly Mammoth’s 40th year marks the inaugural first season selected by its second Artistic Director, Marìa Manuela Goyanes, and for this year’s slate she has selected shows with significant political implications, many involving race and gender. The six-show docket will start off with Jackie Sibblies Drury’s deconstructionist, fourth-wall-bending, 2019 Pulitzer-Prize winning Fairview, which begins as […]