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Wilborn Hampton

Wilborn Hampton
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Wilborn Hampton

Wilborn Hampton is a theater critic for The New York Times. Throughout a journalistic career that began in Dallas as a cub reporter covering the assassination of President Kennedy, and later carried him to London, Rome, and the Middle East as a foreign correspondent, his abiding passion for the theater remained constant. After joining The New York Times as an editor, that lifelong love led him into a position as a theater critic and feature writer, reviewing plays and conducting interviews on a freelance basis for the paper. Over the course of the past 20 years, he has reviewed more than 500 stage productions for The Times, and although he left his editorial position... Read full bio

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Wilborn Hampton: 'Death Of A Salesman'
Huffington Post, May 15, 2012
...Ever since Lee J. Cobb first dropped those sample cases on the stage of the old Morosco Theatre on a cold February night in 1949, the role of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman has been a magnet to American actors. Leaving aside the debate on whether...
Horton Foote: America’s Storyteller
DC Theatre Scene, June 14, 2011
...town (and southwestern) America. That is why the subtitle of this new biography, written by veteran theater critic Wilborn Hampton, is so apropos: “America’s Storyteller.” Click to buy As it turns out, the life of the “America’s Storyteller”...