A Big Little Theater

At a recent performance of The Little Theatre of Manchester, Inc. an irate patron came to the ticket window at intermission to complain. She said there were far too many people in the audience for us to call our theatre “the little theatre.” I was, of course, delighted.

At a recent performance of The Little Theatre of Manchester, Inc. an irate patron came to the ticket window at intermission to complain. She said there were far too many people in the audience for us to call our theatre “the little theatre.” I was, of course, delighted.

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Paul Newman

Monthly Feature:

The members of the Connecticut Critics Circle were saddened to learn of the passing of Paul Newman.

We offer our condolences to his family and friends. The following tributes are personal remembrances of him by our members.

David Rosenberg, Co-founder of the Connecticut Critics Circle.

"I've had my head up my ass," Paul Newman said in response to my congratulations. "What?" I asked. He repeated the remark which I took, from what I knew about him, as a self-protective, mock bravado way of saying he'd been lucky. It was in the mid-50s, just after he'd finished his debut movie, "The Silver Chalice," which he later referred to as "the worst American film of the decade." We met by chance, on 7th and 43rd in New York.

We'd been classmates at Yale's graduate school of drama. Two years before, I'd seen him on Broadway in the prize-winning play, "Picnic." Backstage after the performance, he graciously accepted by compliments and we chatted briefly, about school.

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