In today's Wall Street Journal I review a pay-per-view webcast performance by Houston's Alley Theatre of a stage version of 1984. (This review was written before the death of my wife Hilary.) Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * "Nineteen Eighty-Four," George Orwell's parable of the coming of Stalinist totalitarianism to England,is the most significant political novel of the 20thcentury"but one with which many read…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:04AM on April 3, 2020