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Critic
SIDNEY EDEN covered the entire 1987-88 Broadway
& Off Broadway theater scene for the nationally-syndicated,
twenty-six week program, Broadway Magazine
on NBC-Tempo cable TV. Co-producing, writing and editing the entire
half hour show (which usually covered two Off-Broadway and one Broadway
production), Eden also performed the first, featured 15 minute segment
as resident critic, often including his in-depth interviews with
members of the production. In this regard, he conducted cogent and
provocative interviews with stars such as Christopher Plummer, Jim
Dale, Joan Allen, Delroy Lindo and Glenda Jackson, and literate
and informative sessions with playwrights, David Henry Wang, Athol
Fugard and Arthur Miller, to mention a few. With (unfortunately)
few commercial interruptions and tremendous graphics and production
values on a par with the best in network television coverage of
the entertainment industry, Broadway Magazine
made Channel One's current take on the New York theater scene look
like amateur night.
In addition, Eden has made numerous appearances
in the "Jockbeat" column of the Village
Voice writing on the subject of thoroughbred horse racing,
a subject on which he is (occasionally) expertly knowledgeable.
 Parenthetically,
Eden is a devotee and collector of the works of George Jean Nathan,
the American theater's most famous, longest-running and most influential
critic, and has written two plays on the critic's life. Eden owns
the dramatic rights to all of GJN's writings via Nathan's widow,
the actress Julie Haydon Nathan and is currently developing a new,
one-man show on the subject.
At left: Sid Eden with Julie Haydon Nathan
who created the roles of Kitty in Time of Your Life,
Laura in The Glass Menagerie, played opposite Noel
Coward in Hecht & MacArthur's The Scoundrel among her
diverse roles.
Tapes of Eden's appearances on Broadway
Magazine, are now available on the video page.
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