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2001:

  1. A conversation about the 55th Annual Tony Awards
    A conversation about the 55th Annual Tony Awards

    with John Simon and Ben Brantley on Jun 1, 2001

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    36 min
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1999:

  1. A conversation about theater
    A conversation about theater

    with John Simon and Ben Brantley on Jun 4, 1999

    Duration
    18 min
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1998:

  1. A discussion about the upcoming Tony Awards
    A discussion about the upcoming Tony Awards

    with John Lahr and John Simon on Jun 2, 1998

    Duration
    13 min
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John Simon is a Serbian-American author and literary, theater, and film critic. He has been a regular contributor to a number of magazines, including “The New Leader,” “The New Criterion,” and “National Review.” Although not a native English speaker, he is known for his incisive criticism on the use of the language in American writing, notably in his book “Paradigms Lost: Reflections on Literacy and Its Decline,” and was one of the guests on the PBS special “Do You Speak American?”

Simon was theater critic at “New York Magazine” for more than 36 years, from October 1968 until he was fired in May 2005. Since June 2005 Simon has reviewed theater for BloombergNews.com. He also contributes a monthly essay to “The Weekly Standard.”

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