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A Bejazzed World

From “Aimee Semple McPherson,” which appeared in the December 1927 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. There is a…

Off-Stage

by Amy Bennett,

On Broadway

by Arthur Miller,

Notes on the past and future of American theater

Ranting well is the best revenge

by Billy Bermingham,

The stones of Jerusalem

by Zvi Jagendorf,

Casting presidents

by Jon Wiener,

Politics nouveau

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The review

by Frank Rich,

The great white elephant

by Marilyn Stasio,

The failure of Harold Prince's A Doll's Life, and what it says about Broadway

That’s culture

by Robert Asahina,

The packaging and staging of art

Sondheim’s little deaths

by John Lahr,

The ironic mode and its discontents