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...very interesting—quite complex in the staging and physical layers—but the weakest and least interesting parts of the production often was the text, which frustrated me,” she says.Her first play, “My Vicious Angel,” received critical acclaim in her native Australia. Following the success of “My Vicious Angel,” Evans decided to pursue an MFA in playwriting and a Ph.D. at Brown University. She has written five full-length plays and multiple short plays, all of which have been produced...
...their decisions to become crossover artists with the goal of appealing to a worldwide audience. Paulina Rubio, Carlos Ponce, RBD (these names probably don’t ring any bells): they all tried it with only limited success. Juanes, who has recorded only in Spanish, has achieved the international acclaim that these Latin American artists strove for. Non-Spanish speakers have enjoyed Juanes’s music—no translation necessary. “La Vida...Es Un Ratico,” his first album in three years, happily proves no different. The album opens with the lively, uplifting...
...despite the intellectualism, the Rousseau references, and the mass-critical acclaim, Bartlett failed to “cash in” on the buzz (as if such things even hold monetary values). And though he did reach annual sales of $6 million—substantial for a relatively small and niche label—the revenues were hardly comparable to the one-man tour de force efforts Mr. Bartlett was routinely exhibiting...
...writing a crackling little detective film about child abduction, Gone Baby Gone. In poker, this is known as going all in. First, the movie is an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane, who also wrote Mystic River, which Clint Eastwood put on film to much critical acclaim. Comparisons are inevitable. Second, the movie features imperiled children, spectacularly vulgar language and the urban poor of Boston, none of which scream must-see. Third, he cast his younger brother Casey as the lead, a private detective hired to find the missing child. Unless the kid nails the role, it looks like...
...Benazir returned home to acclaim as the savior of Pakistani democracy. If that feat is to be repeated, voters would have to be so desperate to end military rule that they would overlook not only any deal she might strike with Musharraf, but also the widespread human rights abuses and epic corruption that prevailed in Pakistan during her last stint in power...