The Sunday Critic
D.R. LewisThe Sunday Critic is a theatre-first, DC-forward newsletter of cultural criticism from D.R. Lewis.
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The One With All the O's
Pardon the quiet, but I’m just waking up from a long winter’s nap. We’re still digging out of last week’s snow (this being DC, and all), but hot takes are ahead in hopes of accelerating the thaw. As always, thanks for reading. <3
The S...
Prologue: Thorntons and Johns
Every day, thousands of drivers en route to New Haven, or heading in the opposite direction, pass the Mount Carmel Burying Ground in Hamden, Connecticut. There is no indicator on the shoulder of Whitney Avenue that on the opposite side of a...
Part One: The Intimate Wilder
INTRODUCTION
To his readers, Thornton Wilder’s life may as well have begun in 1926, when at age 29 he published his first novel, The Cabala. It was followed almost immediately by his smash hit, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which earned...
Part Two: Artists, Laymen, and the “Failure in Living”
ARTISTS AND LAYMEN
Thornton Wilder’s decades-long love affair with theatre began in his earliest days. As a young boy in Berkeley, California, he relished performances of classic plays in the William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, parl...
Part Three: Wonderful Woman
INTRODUCTION
To varying degrees of explicitness, writers in the American theatre have turned to their art to provide cover for personal experiences and introspective exploration, from Tennessee Williams’s Tom in The Glass Menagerie to...
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D.R. Lewis is a critic based in Washington, DC.
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