Doris Duke – Wealthiest Woman In The World
By Robert Heide From 1925 through 1967 the legendary San Remo Tavern was open day and night for business on the northwest corner of MacDougal […]
Autumn in New York
By Robert Heide with John Gilman One of the favorite theater musicals of all time for many people including myself is The Fantasticks, which opened […]
Summertime in August at the Jersey Shore
By Robert Heide with John Gilman During the 1940s War years I was a wee tot who spent every summer in nearby Olympic Park, New […]
A Hundred Years From Today
By Robert Heide There are many parallels today in 2021 to the years following the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 and 1919, which is estimated […]
Gay Art Deco Music
By Robert Heide In 1925 the City of Paris, France, presented a world’s fair entitled “Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes.” Fortunately over […]
Ray Johnson, Pop-Culture Collagist, Master of ‘The Happening’ and the Mysterious World of Zen Emptiness
By Robert Heide A new fantastic exhibition of Ray Johnson artworks, collages and memorabilia at David Zwirner Gallery, 525 West 19th Street will be on […]
Two Plays and a Journal by Julian Beck
By Robert Heide In the summer of 1957 the founders of the Living Theatre Julian Beck and his wife Judith Malina went to jail with […]
A Dynamic Theatrical Family Affair: From Florida to the Village and the Jersey Shore
By Robert Heide Often now in these difficult times of COVID virus, living through a new Great worldwide Depression with over a half million American […]
Lisa and Harry—Such Interesting People Live on Christopher Street
By Robert Heide The lyric from the song Christopher Street from the Leonard Bernstein, Comden and Greene Broadway musical Wonderful Town goes: “Here we live […]
Warhol and Wallowitch —a Gay Affair
By Robert Heide I first met the photographer Edward Wallowitch on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where I was studying theater under […]
New York Time Capsule
By Robert Heide It’s Christmastime 2020 and I am finding myself walking down the street singing “Have Yourself a Merry little Christmas – Keep the […]
The Great Divine
By Robert Heide A slight, shy, sensitive young man named Harris Glenn Milstead from Baltimore, had a loving mother named Frances who doted on him […]
Hibiscus and the Cockettes
By Robert Heide 2020 is the 50th anniversary of the famed Cockettes, who made an acid drenched splash in San Francisco while living commune style […]
The Summer of 1956— The American Shakespeare Festival and Academy at Stratford, Connecticut
By Robert Heide Several months back this year I received a call from a writer named Vernon Gravely who lives in Murphysboro, Illinois. He told […]
Thirty Dollars Pays Your Rent On Bleecker Street* The Way We Were
By Robert Heide and John Gilman *lyric from the song Bleecker Street from Simon/Garfunkel album Wednesday Morning, 3 AM – 1964 Recently, in virtual quarantine […]
All About Andy
By Robert Heide The bigger than big book entitled simply Warhol by Blake Gopnik just published by Ecco, a Harper Collins imprint, is 39 pages […]
Celebrating Gay Pride in Severe Times
By Robert Heide In June 1961 my one-act play West of the Moon opened as an off-Broadway production at New Playwrights Theater, on West Third […]
Carousing in the Village with Terrence and Edward
By Robert Heide It was Edward Albee who first introduced me to Terrence McNally in 1958. A lifelong friend, I was stunned when I heard […]