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What is to be Done continued to expand its listings and attract advertisers. By the end of the seventies, the magazine had published countless roller-disco promotions as well as interviews with Robert Altman, Eugene Ionesco and Orson Welles...
...would be wrong to say so, and worse, one would be unfair to the stupendous work of Altman and her cast and crew. No play is so great that it is foolproof. If anything, mediocrity is more obvious when the potential exists for a brilliant night of theater. Angels in particular--with its large cast, its tricky, complex script, and its logistical nightmares of sound, stage and light effects--raises the stakes for success remarkably high. What we experience at the Loeb, then, is the transporting magic of talented dramatists giving the play, and the audience, everything they have. Those...
Angels in America doesn't really have any "lead" characters, and Altman's cast performs with the smooth excellence of a true ensemble. Shapiro, in her first Harvard performance, is a revelation. Harper is a sympathetic character but not necessarily a likable one. Shapiro dares to make her paranoia and love-starvation obvious from her first scene, but accents her performance so shrewdly with comedy and irony that the character devastates rather than depresses...
...Altman has taken equal care animating all of these (and other) characters, regardless of their time on stage. She places Angels in America where it belongs: in a complete moral universe of heroic risks, mutable ethics and terrible punishments. Altman's most recent directing project, last spring's revival of Mamet's Oleanna, was a wobbly production that tried to let its controversial subject matter speak for itself; it didn't. Here, however, she shows a sureness of perspective that recalls that other Altman, Robert, the filmmaker behind the human panoramas of Short Cuts and Nashville, and whose name...
...Suits keep you away; do not let anything keep you away. Enough cannot be said in praise of Kushner's play, where malignancy--both medical and personal--is more terrifying for being so unfixed, but where courage is always a choice. With this focused, challenging, inspiring production, Altman and her colleagues have made that choice