Martin Gottfried

Martin Gottfried

Martin Gottfried is an American critic, columnist and author.

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Biography

Early career

Gottfried is a 1959 graduate of Columbia College in New York City,[1] and attended Columbia Law School for three semesters, next spending one year with U.S. Army Military Intelligence. Gottfried began his writing career as the classical music critic for The Village Voice, doubling as an off-Broadway reviewer for Womens Wear Daily, a position that made him the youngest member of the New York Drama Critics Circle in the organization's history.[2]

In 1968, Little, Brown and Company published his first book, A Theater Divided, a study of post-World War II American theater. The book won the highest honor in dramatic criticism, the George Jean Nathan Award.[2] In 1970 Putnam published Opening Nights, a collection of his essays.[3] By then, he had become a regular contributor to the Arts and Leisure section of The New York Times' Sunday edition.

Drama critic and educator

In 1974, he became the drama critic for the New York Post. Four years later, he "Americanized" the West End musical Bar Mitzvah Boy for an off-Broadway production.[4]

In 1979, Gottfried began writing for the Saturday Review, the same year Harry N. Abrams, Inc. published his Broadway Musicals.[5] In 1991, it was joined by a sequel, More Broadway Musicals. and "In Person," a tribute to performing artists.

Until recently the drama critic for the New York Law Journal, Gottfried has conducted a series of "Conversations" at the 92nd Street Y as well as at the New School of Social Research and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Participants have included Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Harold Prince, Jane Alexander, Christopher Walken and Richard Dreyfuss. Gottfried also has been a contributor to [[The N.Y. Times] Sunday Magazine, Vogue, the Yale Drama Review and Condé Nast Traveler. He also writes regular articles on the performing arts for Stagebill, the program distributed in theaters and concert halls across America.

He has been a guest professor of theater at the Columbia University School of the Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University, Rutgers University and the Colorado College, as well as a Visiting Artist/Professor at the College of Santa Fe.

Author

Gottfried's writings include biographies of Sondheim,[6] Arthur Miller,[7] Jed Harris,[8] Bob Fosse,[9] Danny Kaye,[10] George Burns,[11] and Angela Lansbury.[12] His latest book, co-written with Bill Condon and Cheo Coker, is Dreamgirls The Movie Musical, published in April 2007.[13]

A review of Arthur Miller: His Life and Work called the book a "thorough and revealing biography".[14]

References

  1. ^ "Bookshelf", Columbia College Today archive, college.columbia.edu, retrieved January 26, 2010
  2. ^ a b Nathan Award winners, arts.cornell.edu, retrieved January 26, 2010
  3. ^ Opening Nights listing, amazon.ca, retrieved January 26, 2010
  4. ^ Gussow, Mel. "Stage: 'Bar Mitzvah Boy,' With Music By Jule Styne", The New York Times, June 11, 1987
  5. ^ Broadway musicals (1984). Abradale Press. ISBN 0-8109-8060-6; originally published by H. N. Abrams, 1979, ISBN 0-8109-0664-3
  6. ^ Gottfried, Martin. Sondheim, amazon.com, retrieved January 26, 2010
  7. ^ Gottfried, Martin. Arthur Miller: His Life and Work (2004). Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81377-7
  8. ^ Gottfried, Martin. Jed Harris, the Curse of Genius (1984). Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-32156-7
  9. ^ Gottfried, Martin. All His Jazz (2003), Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81284-3
  10. ^ Gottfried, Martin. Nobody's Fool (2002), Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-4476-1
  11. ^ Gottfried, Martin. George Burns and the Hundred-Year Dash (1996). Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-684-81483-8
  12. ^ Gottfried, Martin. Balancing Act: The Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury (2000). Kensington Pub. Corp. ISBN 0-7860-1084-3
  13. ^ Dreamgirls, newmarketpress.com, retrieved January 26, 2010
  14. ^ Evans, Everett."The life of a playwright", chron.com, January 2, 2004

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