Does Charles Isherwood Still Write for the Times?

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 9/12/11 at 6:44pm

I was on the Theater Reviews page and noticed his name strangely absent below Brantley's. He's not even listed in the "Other Reviewers" section. Also, if you click on the Rock of Ages review (which I distinctly remember Isherwood writing), his name is missing and so too is the review.

Did I miss something? Is this a computer glitch? Or, *Gasp!* is he really gone?
Where Did Isherwood Go?

[AC126748]

Posted: 9/12/11 at 6:46pm

This is interesting. Look at this listing of all his articles (most recent published last Sunday). His name isn't available to click on. I wonder what's up.
Isherwood

[rougeduck]

Posted: 9/12/11 at 6:46pm

This is very strange...and if he is gone why wouldn't he be under past reviewers?

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 9/12/11 at 7:15pm

and someone said they saw him on Press Night at FOLLIES this week...strange...

[scott68]

Posted: 9/12/11 at 7:42pm

May be a glitch - he's certainly still writing for them, as he has at least one story in the upcoming fall preview.

[fflagg]

Posted: 9/12/11 at 8:55pm

Or maybe he has decided to go back and write biographies of gay porn stars. . .

[Taryn]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 12:50am

Just had a review come out.

http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/theater/reviews/neo-futurists-present-stage-directions-from-oneill-plays.html

[Brick]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 1:36am

He's co-writing Barbara Cook's memoirs, so possibly he has been given some time off to do so.

[winston89]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 4:28am

It's fine if he is co-authoring Cook's book, however, there is a difference between giving someone a break to work on another project verses making it look like they have never worked for you at all. The Times made it look like the man just up and left on bad terms rather then them letting him take a break to work on other projects.

[winston89]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 4:28am

It's fine if he is co-authoring Cook's book, however, there is a difference between giving someone a break to work on another project verses making it look like they have never worked for you at all. The Times made it look like the man just up and left on bad terms rather then them letting him take a break to work on other projects.

[newintown]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 12:26pm

The literate theatre-loving public would be lucky if he were gone; that would only leave Hack Brantley to get the ax. Not that the Times would ever dream of replacing either with a good writer...

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 9/13/11 at 12:53pm

Hahaha!

So sassy.