The articles on these pages originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine, in some cases in a slightly different form.

Richard Nelson’s “Two Shakespearean Actors,” January 27, 1992

Donald Margulies’ “Sight Unseen,” February 3, 1992

Tony Randall revives Feydeau’s “A Little Hotel on the Side,” February 10, 1992

Frank Loesser’s “Most Happy Fella” revived, February 24, 1992

Joan Collins in “Private Lives,” March 2, 1992

Ariel Dorfman’s “Death and the Maiden,” March 30, 1992

Neil Simon’s “Jake’s Women,” April 6, 1992

Herb Gardner’s “Conversations with My Father,” April 13, 1992

John Ford’s “‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore,” April 20, 1992

“A Streetcar Named Desire” and August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running,” April 27, 1992

“Forbidden Broadway” and “Gunmetal Blues,” May 4, 1992

“Man of La Mancha” revived, May 11, 1992

Ian McKellan’s “Richard III” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, June 22, 1992

Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” July 6, 1992