Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick sinks into the malaise of middle age in the new stage version of “Babbitt,” Sinclair Lewis’ 1922 satirical novel adapted to the stage by Joe DiPietro in a ...

Some "classics" feel like books you're supposed to pretend you've read--titles that gather dust on shelves and in conversations. Others arrive in your hands like the past politely tapping your ...

The subject of Sinclair Lewis’s satirical novel “Babbitt,” published in 1922, is a real estate broker turned public figure, a shameless flip-flopper and, frankly, kind of a boob. In the stage ...

Sometime after Donald Trump was elected in 2016 but before the pandemic arrived in 2020 — no one quite remembers when — three men met for lunch in an Upper West Side diner in New York, and they talked ...

The thing about Babbitt—the title character of Sinclair Lewis’ 1922 novel—is that everyone knows one — or even many. George F. Babbitt is something of an everyman: he’s a middle class, middle-aged man ...

Let’s cut to the chase: those who appreciate Sinclair Lewis’ satirical novel Babbitt may find Joe DiPietro’s theatrical adaptation a gratifying box-checker. However, for those who haven’t (recently or ...

Sinclair Lewis once remarked that he wanted no ceremony at his funeral except the singing of “Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here.” The committee of prominent citizens which last week was making plans for ...

Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick sinks into the malaise of middle age in the new stage version of “Babbitt,” Sinclair Lewis’ 1922 satirical novel adapted to the stage by Joe DiPietro in a ...