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Martin Harries

Martin Harries is professor of English at UC Irvine. The author of Forgetting Lot’s Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship, he is working on “Theater after Film,” a book about the impact of mass culture on postwar drama.

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  • Take Me to Church

    Take Me to Church

    THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS, adaptation by Lee Breuer, music by Bob Telson, directed by Mark J. P. Hood and Charles Newell, at the Getty Villa Museum, Pacific Palisades, September 7–30, 2023. How often, really, in a lifetime of theatergoing, will ...

    Oct 15

    • Having Once Been Beautiful

      Having Once Been Beautiful

      IT’S BETTER TO START OUT UGLY, written and directed by Asher Hartman, at JOAN, Los Angeles, August 4–6, 2023. Martin Harries reports: The audience, on three sides, can at first imagine that they are on the edges of a ...

      Sep 6

      • Having Once Been Beautiful

        Having Once Been Beautiful

        IT’S BETTER TO START OUT UGLY, written and directed by Asher Hartman, at JOAN, Los Angeles, August 4–6, 2023. Martin Harries reports: The audience, on three sides, can at first imagine that they are on the edges of a ...

        Martin HarriesSep 6