master builder

It’s been 50 years since the publication of The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s magisterial biography of New York City master builder Robert Moses.

Those who pushed back against urban highway projects were reminded that, as Robert Moses, the master builder of roads like New York’s Cross Bronx and Long Island expressways, liked to say, “you can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs.”

When his criminal trial finishes for the day, Donald J. Trump typically returns to the marble-and-gold triplex atop Trump Tower, the high rise he built in the early 1980s and used to establish a public image as a master builder.

I’m still recovering from the National Actors Theatre production of Ibsen’s “The Master Builder,” directed by Tony Randall at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre in 1992.

It will mark Snook's first appearance on the London stage since her 2016 debut opposite Ralph Fiennes in The Master Builder.