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McGillis just finished a three-month run as `Nina' in the Kennedy Center's National Repertory Theater's production of The Seagull with Peter Sellars '80 as director. While at Harvard, Sellars made a name for himself with his avant-garde productions at the Loeb Mainstage Theater...
...York in the early '30s was as wide a world as an adolescent could handle. Avant-garde art, radical politics and a blend of bourgeois habits and bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon...
...Color Purple, Witness, Silverado), made his Chicago stage debut at Steppenwolf's intimate--and perforce uncommercial--211- seat space in Athol Fugard's A Lesson from Aloes. A few blocks away, William Peterson, star of the film thriller To Live and Die in L.A., has rejoined the funky, avant-garde Remains Theater in a portrayal of brainwashing, Days and Nights Within...
Arena Stage has long been receptive to avant-garde European writers and directors. In rescuing Restoration from relative obscurity (the only previous U.S. production, in 1985, played five performances at the 99-seat Illusion Theater in Minneapolis), the company has proved especially shrewd. The show displays both the adaptability of Arena's theater-in-the-round space-- actors rise through the floor and almost to the ceiling, musicians are suspended in a metal-mesh box above the stage--and the strength of its newly expanded ensemble. Stanley Anderson is by turns uproarious, winsome and infuriating as the despicable Lord...
...real events have a way of belying scenarios, and in the past few years the most striking and heavily publicized trend in German art has been back to the very kind of painting that obsessed the German avant-garde before 1914: fervent, ejaculatory, based on the human figure and full of pretensions toward expressive plangency and "primitive" directness. There has been a like revival of the kind of acrid satire and political chronicling that occupied the German Dadaists and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) painters in the '20s. The image stream of German expressionism went underground, but not even Nazism could...