About Frank Rich
Frank Hart Rich Jr. is an American essayist and liberal op-ed columnist, who held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011. He has also produced television series and documentaries for HBO. He claimed that the actor Rowan Atkinson first used the nickname after Rich had panned a revue Atkinson brought to New York from London. In his study of the work, Rich was "the first person to predict the legendary status the show eventually would achieve". He first won attention from theater-goers with an essay for The Harvard Crimson about the Broadway musical Follies (1971), by Stephen Sondheim, during its pre-Broadway tryout run in Boston. He was also an Executive Producer of Succession, the HBO drama series created by Jesse Armstrong that debuted in June 2018 to critical praise.
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