Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

* Broadway, by Brooks Atkinson.

New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson said of the play, " a peach ... a roaring Western melodrama ... Humphrey Bogart does the best work of his career as an actor.

Brooks Atkinson for the New York Times wrote, " Although Miss Leigh and Mr. Olivier are handsome young people they hardly act their parts at all.

** Brooks Atkinson, American theater critic ( b. 1894 )

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

* Benefactors by Michael Frayn ( Brooks Atkinson Theatre, December 1985 )

* Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman ( Brooks Atkinson Theatre, February 1992 )

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times praised the musical's integration, stating, " For once, the modest label " musical play " has a precise meaning.

An abridged version opened on Broadway on 26 February 1964 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, with Emlyn Williams as Pius XII and Jeremy Brett as Father Fontana.

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times called it " fast, loud, and funny " and added Merman " has never loosed herself with quite so much abandon.

Although Brooks Atkinson thought the score was " hardly more than adequate ", he called Merman " as brassy as ever, glowing like a neon light whenever she steps on the stage.

In the New York Post, Richard Watts called her " a brilliant actress ," and Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times said " she gives an indomitable performance, both as actress and singer ".

The play opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 9 November 1981 and ran for 200 performances, with Tom Courtenay repeating his performance as Norman and Paul Rogers as " Sir ".

On December 11, 1983, a production directed again by Blakemore and starring Dorothy Loudon, Victor Garber, Brian Murray, Deborah Rush, Douglas Seale, and Amy Wright opened in New York City at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it ran for 553 performances.

Sams ' production transferred to Broadway, again at the Brooks Atkinson, on November 1, 2001, with Patti LuPone, Peter Gallagher, Faith Prince, T. R.

" The play opened in February 1935 and Garfield was singled out by critic Brooks Atkinson for having a " splendid sense of character development.

New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: " After this declaration of ethics, it will be impossible to dismiss Mr Kaufman and Mr Hart as clever jesters with an instinct for the stage.

After four previews, the play's Broadway production opened on June 1, 1978 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Of her performance in the stage musical, Brooks Atkinson wrote in The New York Times: " Nothing has happened to the shrill little moll whom the town loved in Born Yesterday.

* Atkinson, Brooks.

So unflinching was the portrait that critic Brooks Atkinson famously asked in his review " Although it is expertly done, how can you draw sweet water from a foul well?

She was singled out by The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work.

2046 was called the best film of 2005 by Michael Atkinson ( The Village Voice ), Daryl Chin ( Journal of Performance and Art ), Josef Brown ( Vue Weekly ), Sean Burns ( Philadelphia Weekly ), Will Sloan ( The Martingrove Beacon ), and Justine Elias ( The Guardian ), and was ranked among the top ten best films of the year by Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times ), Richard Corliss ( Time Magazine ), Same Adams ( Philadelphia City Paper ), Leslie Camhi ( The Village Voice ), Jason Anderson ( eye Weekly ), Gary Dretzka ( Movie City News ), Godfrey Cheshire ( The Independent Weekly ), Ty Burr ( The Boston Globe ), Liza Bear ( indieWIRE ), Edward Crouse ( The Village Voice ), Jeffrey M. Anderson ( The San Francisco Examiner ), John DeFore ( Austin American Statesman ), Brian Brooks ( indieWIRE ), Chris Barsanti ( Filmcritic. com ), F. X.

After 11 previews, a revival directed by Leonard Foglia opened on April 5, 1998 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it ran for 97 performances.

Papp's 1956 production of Taming of the Shrew, outdoors in the East River Amphitheatre on New York's Lower East Side, was pivotal for Papp, primarily because Brooks Atkinson, known as the dean of American theatre critics, went downtown to see it and endorsed Papp's vision in The New York Times.

Critic Brooks Atkinson, in his review for The New York Times wrote of the original 1949 Broadway production that Maxwell Anderson and Mr. Weill had encountered " obvious difficulty " in transforming " so thoroughly a work of literary art " into theatre, and was sometimes " skimming and literal where the novel is rich and allusive.

Brooks Atkinson, theatre critic for The New York Times, wrote that it was a " very happy musical show in a very cheerful tradition.

After graduating from the former Sewanee Military Academy, an Episcopalian institution in Sewanee, Tennessee, Brooks attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, where he was a theatre arts major.

Notable Hamilton alumni include US Secretary of State Elihu Root ( 1864 ), US Vice President James S. Sherman ( 1878 ), poet Ezra Pound ( 1905 ), theatre critic Alexander Woollcott ( 1909 ), jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup ( 1919 ), psychologist B. F. Skinner ( 1926 ), Nobel Prize Winner Paul Greengard ( 1948 ), civil rights leader Bob Moses ( 1956 ), novelist Terry Brooks ( 1966 ), playwright Richard Nelson ( 1971 ), US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ( 1972 ), composer Jay Reise ( 1972 ), Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner ( 1979 ), novelist Peter Cameron ( 1982 ), actor Tony Goldwyn ( 1982 ), author Garret Kramer ( 1984 ), novelist Kamila Shamsie, actor and writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein ( 1989 ), actor Grayson McCouch ( 1991 ), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon ( 1997 ), and politician and author Matthew Zeller ( 2004 ).

Her performance prompted Richard Watts of the New York Herald Tribune to call her " the greatest feminine performer in the American theatre ," and Brooks Atkinson described her as " a goddess " in his review in the New York Times.

" Brooks Atkinson, theatre critic ( The New York Times ), called it a " music drama ," noting Loesser " has now come about as close to opera as the rules of Broadway permit.

It was also integral in its support of smaller independent companies such as Robin Fulford ’ s Platform 9, Ed Roy ’ s Topological Theatre and the newly formed Augusta Company by Daniel Brooks, Don McKellar and Tracy Wright, which were creating some of the most exciting theatre in Toronto at the time.

Tom returned to the world of theatre in April 2004 in the lead role of Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks ' brilliantly funny musical The Producers.

* 1886 – Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic ( d. 1963 )

* May 2 – Van Wyck Brooks, American literary critic and writer ( b. 1886 )

" Realism is nothing if not urban ", notes critic Peter Brooks ; the scene of a young man coming into the city to find his fortune is ubiquitous in the realist novel, and appears repeatedly in Balzac's works, such as Illusions Perdues.

According to critic David Ehrenstein, the term " Creative Accounting " was first used in 1968 in the film The Producers by Mel Brooks.

* Cleanth Brooks Professor, literary critic

* Brooks Adams, was an American historian and a critic of capitalism.

Chicago Reader film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote that what director James Brooks " Manages to do with ( the characters ) as they struggle mightily to connect with one another is funny, painful, beautiful, and basically truthful-a triumph for everyone involved.

" Modern literary critic Van Wyck Brooks wrote that Lowell's poetry was forgettable: " one read them five times over and still forgot them, as if this excellent verse had been written in water.

The Southern Review was co-founded in 1935 by three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Penn Warren who served as U. S. Poet Laureate and wrote the classic novel All the King's Men, and renowned literary critic of the New Criticism school, Cleanth Brooks.

Literary critic Cleanth Brooks described the novel as " extremely well-written ", full of literary allusions and exploring the plight of a lost generation.

" The New York Times ' critic Brooks Atkinson hailed her Nina as " grace and aspiration incarnate ".

Cleanth Brooks ( October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994 ) was an influential American literary critic and professor.

Brooks was also the preeminent critic of Southern literature, writing classic texts on William Faulkner, and co-founder of the influential journal, The Southern Review ( Leitch 2001 ) with Robert Penn Warren.

For Brooks, nearly everything a critic evaluates must come from within the text itself.

In his later years, Brooks criticized the poststructuralists for inviting subjectivity and relativism into their analysis, asserting " each critic played with the text ’ s language unmindful of aesthetic relevance and formal design " ( Leitch 2001 ).

As testament to Brooks ’ influence, fellow critic and former teacher John Crowe Ransom calls Brooks “ the most forceful and influential critic of poetry that we have ” ( qtd.