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LETTICE & LOVAGE. Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this Broadway comedy as a showcase for Maggie Smith. She returns the favor by giving the performance of her career as a stately home tour guide who devalues fact for fancy...
Peter Shaffer (Equus, Amadeus) wrote this as a showcase for Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar winner who was last seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day in 1979. All her trademark mannerisms are in evidence, from the nasal drawl of contempt to the wounded-crow flutter of arms and hands. So is the open-wound vulnerability that brings her fey lunacy back to earth. She takes a character who is mostly an idea, a conceit -- a person for whom pretending is more real than reality -- and invests her with poignancy and pride. In spirit Lettice...
Long before the first rehearsal of this Marine Corps thriller set at Guantanamo Bay, its author had exceeded the daydreams of almost any debut playwright. Not only was the show on its way to Broadway with a 20-member cast headed by erstwhile Oscar nominee Tom Hulce (Amadeus), but it had been bought for the movies by producer David Brown, whose credits include Jaws, The Sting and The Verdict. He made a deal that could bring creator Aaron Sorkin, 28, a sum well into six figures. By the time the show opened last week, however, the publicity about a wunderkind...
...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
NOTHING SACRED George F. Walker wryly adapted Turgenev's Fathers and Sons so that student anarchism in 1860s Russia paralleled the polemics of Marxist collegians in 1960s America. Tom Hulce (Amadeus) starred in the first of a raft of U.S. stagings, at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum...