Jonathan Kalb is Professor of Theater at Hunter College, CUNY, and the Resident Dramaturg at Theater for a New Audience. The author of five books on theater, he is a two-time winner of The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and has worked for more than three decades as a theater scholar and critic, including as a columnist for New York Press, a regular critic for The Village Voice, and a blogger (his TheaterMatters blog is at www.jonathankalb.com). His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Nation, Salon, Salmagundi, The Threepenny Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other publications.
Website: https://www.jonathankalb.com/
by Jonathan Kalb Richard Gilman (1923-2006)—a revered and feared American critic of theater, film and fiction in the mid-century patrician grain of Eric Bentley, Stanley Kauffmann and Robert Brustein—was a self-absorbed titan of insecurity and the best writing teacher I ever had. Negotiating the minefield of this man’s mercurial moodiness, beginning at age 22, was…