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Jun 26, 2024 · But like the work of Coward, Rattigan and Maugham, Van Druten’s work is certainly worth reevaluating. I first came across The Voice of the Turtle about 15 years ago. When I read the play’s Broadway success, I expected a light comedy and a classic, well-crafted play.
Jun 26, 2024 · But as with the work of Coward, Rattigan and Maugham, Van Druten’s work is well worth reevaluating. I first came across The Voice of the Turtle about 15 years ago.
- Philip Wilson
So says a character in The Voice of the Turtle, a 1943 play by John Van Druten, which I am currently directing for the Jermyn Street Theater in London. This is a rare revival of one of theater's forgotten voices, but his name may sound familiar.
Jul 10, 2024 · That’s one reason why Van Druten, a gay and necessarily closeted man born in London in 1901, wrote so well for women, a fact singled out by Holly O’Mahony in her review for The Stage. But ...
Feb 12, 2014 · In 1953, a writer leveled harsh criticism at John van Druten’s romantic comedy “London Wall,” calling its story “almost shamelessly inadequate” and arguing that the play would never work ...
John William Van Druten (1 June 1901 – 19 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director. [1] He began his career in London, and later moved to America, becoming a U.S. citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society.
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Jun 29, 2007 · Two very different roads to the past are being traveled by two very different actresses in the Roundabout Theater Company’s mildly entertaining, maddeningly disjunctive revival of “Old...
