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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meets boy. Boy gets AIDS. Play gets raves. As much as penthouse comedy dominated the '20s or political agitprop informed the '30s, AIDS has defined American theater this past decade -- both in the ravaging of the creative community and in the flowering of dramas on the subject. There are angry plays (The Normal Heart), sweet plays (As Is), pageants (Angels in America) and musicals (Falsettos). Some soar into poignant metaphor. Prelude to a Kiss and Marvin's Room are really about responsibilities of marriage and family; the plays say that relationships of love or blood must be sustained even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celibacy, The Safest Sex | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

According to the first student, the people in the room had no knowledge that the dancer was a minor, because they were assured that the dancer would be in her early 20s by Tele-Tease, the company they called...

Author: By Allen C. Soong, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Police Find Stripper in Dorm | 1/20/1993 | See Source »

...apartment in North Philadelphia with the city's jagged skyline pointing up behind, Orphans traces the lives of Treat (Joe Pacheco) and Phillip (Steven Longmuir), two orphaned brothers in their 20s. Treat, a petty crook with violent tendencies, has kept his simple-minded younger brother Phillip alone in the house for years. Phillip's combination of childlike ignorance and unnerving acuity is at once beguiling and somewhat unbelievable...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Intimate, Intense Orphans | 1/15/1993 | See Source »

...career, like Barenboim and Levine, hope she sticks to her resolve. The fact is that, lovely as her voice is, it is not large. But 26 is very young. It is nearly impossible to predict how a voice will develop; the supreme Wagnerian Kirsten Flagstad sang operetta in her 20s. "You must never force," Bartoli insists. "The test is after the concert: Is the voice still fresh so that you could go on and on?" She certainly passed the test with Levine. When she auditioned for him, he let the session run on and on. He was having that much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera's Roman Candle Newcomer | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

Bagnoud was a Swiss helicopter pilot and relief worker who died in his mid-20s during a 1986 helicopter accident over the African desert. After his death, a Swiss charitable foundation was established in his name...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Public Health School Gets $20 Million | 12/8/1992 | See Source »

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