THE FULL NELSON.(Richard Nelson)
American Theatre, April, 2001 by PARAN, JANICE
> BEARING THE WEST END STAMP OF APPROVAL, PLAYWRIGHT RICHARD NELSON SAILS INTO A BOUNTEOUS AMERICAN SEASON For some reason, Richard Nelson and his glasses seem inseparable. It's hard to imagine him without them--they are as much a part of his physiognomy as Joyce Carol Oates's or Chekhov's are of theirs, and they somehow serve to define his attentive, amiable, unassuming gaze, the same steady gaze Nelson has cast over manifold landscapes--personal, historical, political, cultural--in the course of his 25-year career in the American theatre, first as a playwright, and now, ...
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