Lillian Hellman

Jan 17, 2025 | wifr.com | Neil Simon |Lillian Hellman |Oscar Wilde

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Rockford Theatre Guild is a new, professional theatre company that’s working with Rockford University’s Performing Arts Department to bring the spotlight to classic plays. Rockford Theatre Guild will be hosting three open houses over the next month. Each open house is centered around the reading of a classic play, which will feature Rockford University students, alumni and faculty.

Jun 19, 2024 | nybooks.com | Lillian Hellman

The failure of a second work is, I think, more damaging to a writer than failure ever will be again. The success of the first work—in my case, The Children’s Hour, which went into the sensational because I was young and unheard of—then seems an accident. Maybe the wrong people liked it, maybe you played good tricks, just maybe you are no good.