Walter Kerr
Honors and Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1978
Inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1983
Former Ritz Theater in the Theatre District, New York, was renamed to the Walter Kerr Theatre in his honor.
Some of Walter Kerr's best known quotations and remarks:
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."
"Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy."
"He had delusions of adequacy."
"It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically."
"As an emotional actor Welles is without insight, accuracy, power or grace. In short, without talent. The only parts he could ever play were parts that were cold, intellectual, emotionally dead."
His Books
How Not to Write a Play (1955)
Criticism and Censorship (1957)
Pieces at Eight (1958)
The Decline of Pleasure (1962)
The Theatre in Spite of Itself (1963)
Tragedy and Comedy (1967)
Thirty Plays Hath November (1969)
God on the Gymnasium Floor (1971)
The Silent Clowns (1975)
Journey to the Center of the Theater (1979)
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In 1990, the old Ritz Theater on West 48th Street was renamed the Walter Kerr Theater in his honor.
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