reviews of the play:

NYTIMES REVIEW
Theater Review 1
Theater Review 2

Paul Alexander
Bestselling Author
Former Radio Host
Playwright and Screenwriter

*BIOGRAPHY*
Paul Alexander's recent *MAN OF THE PEOPLE: The Maverick Life and Career of John McCain* paints a balanced, thoughtful portrait of the man who ran for President of the United States. This book is the most comprehensive McCain biography available.  Alexander is the editor of the essay collection "Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plath" and the author of "Rough Magic", a biography of Plath. His other numerous credits include "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", the best-selling biography of James Dean; "Death and Disaster", a book about the death and estate of Andy Warhol; "Salinger", a biography of J.D. Salinger; "The Candidate", a chronicle of John Kerry's presidential campaign; and "Machiavelli's Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove".
CURTAIN UP REVIEW
Edge

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methodmachine.org		 A former reporter for /Time/, Alexander has published nonfiction in /The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, New York, The Nation, The Village Voice, Worth, The New York Observer, George, Cosmopolitan, More, Interview, ARTnews, Mirabella, Premiere, Out, The Advocate, Travel & Leisure, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Biography, Men’s Journal, Best Life,/ but mostly /Rolling Stone/. In Europe, his nonfiction has appeared in /Paris Match, Gente/, and /The Guardian/. Alexander is the author of the plays /Strangers in the Land of Canaan/ and /Edge,/ which he directed. Developed at The Actors Studio, /Edge/, the critically-acclaimed one-woman show about Sylvia Plath, played Off-Broadway in New York, where Angelica Torn received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination; Off-the-West-End in London; and venues in other cities, among them the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, where /New Times/ named Torn Best Actress for the 2004-2005 season; the Circa Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand; and the Marfa Theatre in Marfa, Texas. /Edge /toured Australia in early 2006. In the fall of 2007, /Edge/ had a second run in New York prior to playing The Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles the winter of 2008. Alexander is the director of the 2004 British revival of Ariel Dorfman's play /Death and the Maiden/ and /Brothers in Arms/, a documentary film about John Kerry and Vietnam (First Run Features). He has completed /Good Morning Heartache/, a play with music about Billie Holiday.

Alexander is a graduate of The Writers Workshop at The University of Iowa and a member of PEN American Center, The Authors Guild, and the Playwrights and Directors Unit of The Actors Studio. In the fall of 2002, he was a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He lives in New York City.