Richard Gilman, Veteran Theater Critic

NPR: "Richard Gilman, who died Saturday at age 83, was a writer and professor at the Yale School of Drama. Ben Brantley of The New York Times writes, 'Mr. Gilman was one of a breed of philosopher-critics... who came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s. They located in modern drama the elements of abstraction, alienation and absurdity that had long been at the core of discussions of other forms of art and literature.' In this archive interview from 1987, Gilman recounts his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism and then to atheism."