The irreverent director Peter Sellars has said he thinks ''Othello'' is a terrible play, but does he need to work so hard to prove it to us? In his high-tech 2009 staging of the tragedy, he stuffed Philip Seymour Hoffman's Iago into an ill-fitting green sweater, and reduced that masterful agent of chaos to a mundanely bitter cuckold overshadowed by...
NANTERRE, France -- A decade ago Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and Peter Sellars, the experimental theater and opera director, got into a fierce argument about Shakespeare's ''Othello.'' He said it was a terrible play that made no sense and had outlived its usefulness. She said he was dead wrong. The conversation led to a...
On May 15, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison will give the commencement address at Rutgers University in New Jersey. For her trouble, she will receive an honorary doctorate of letters -- and a check for $30,000. Rutgers said Friday that the payment would be its first for a graduation speech in its 245-year history. For generations, an...
Toni Morrison (født 18. februar 1931 i Lorain, Ohio, USA) er en afro-amerikansk forfatter. Hendes roman Elskede vandt i 1988 Pulitzerprisen. I 1993 modtog hun Nobelprisen i litteratur som den første afro-amerikanske kvinde.