Arthur Gelb, the much beloved Managing Editor of The New York Times, a champion of theater coverage there as early as the 1950s and beyond, and co-author, with his wife Barbara, of a massive three-volume biography of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, is celebrated in the Cuny TV rebroadcast of a 1999 Theater Talk interview, co-hosted by Michael Riedel of the New York Post and producer Susan Haskins, airing today, May 30 2014 at 930am, 230pm, and 730pm. Mr. Gelb passed away on May 20.
- 5/30/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Arthur Gelb, the much beloved Managing Editor of The New York Times, a champion of theater coverage there as early as the 1950s and beyond, and co-author, with his wife Barbara, of a massive three-volume biography of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, is celebrated in the Cuny TV rebroadcast of a 1999 Theater Talk interview, co-hosted by Michael Riedel of the New York Post and producer Susan Haskins, airing Friday, May 30 2014 at 930am, 230pm, and 730pm. Mr. Gelb passed away on May 20.
- 5/28/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Arthur Gelb, a longtime New York Times editor who served as Managing Editor from 1986-1989, died Tuesday, the Times said. He was 90. Gelb, who became president of the New York Times Co. Foundation after his mandatory retirement at age 65, joined the paper as a copy boy in 1944. Born Feb. 3, 1924 in East Harlem, he had a passion for theater and wrote articles that jump-started the careers of Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Lenny Bruce and Jason Robards. Along with his wife, Barbara, Gelb penned a biography of Nobel-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1962. Also read: New York Times Publisher...
- 5/20/2014
- by Matthew Bramlett
- The Wrap
The close of the Metropolitan Opera season has given general manager Peter Gelb plenty of opportunity to mull the fate of oversensitive potentates. In Wagner’s Ring cycle, the god Wotan acts with intemperate stupidity, and four operas later, the world he has built collapses in flames. Critics reacted with jeers and disappointment to the Met’s $16 million staging, directed by Robert Lepage. The New Yorker’s Alex Ross memorably called it “the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history.”Gelb, the son of former New York Times managing editor Arthur Gelb and a former publicist himself, knows a thing or two about the free expression of critical thought, and he doesn’t like it. There was nothing he could do about Ross’s words, but when outlets over which he had some leverage began repeating them, Gelb, like Wotan, lashed out. Earlier this month, he called Laura Walker,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
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