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...comic routines have something of the same boisterously inventive spirit as last year's ART Sganarelle, though not quite as wonderfully anarchic. The only real disappointment comes from the massive chase-cum-ballet near the end of the musical; the frenetic back and forth motions of the whole cast never quite resolve into anything coherent, and the result is more confusing than funny...

Author: By Jean CHRISTOPHE Castelli, | Title: Live From Syracuse | 2/25/1983 | See Source »

Epps receives another $2000 beyond the $1000 reserved for each House, which he distributes to various cultural or artistic undergraduate endeavors. In the past, he has awarded grants to the Harvard Advocate. Padam Aram (an undergraduate literary magazine), the Ballet Folklorico (a Mexican dance group), the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and the Japanese Culture Society...

Author: By David M. Rosenfeld, | Title: Sharing The Castle's Riches | 2/16/1983 | See Source »

...April of 1980, after Baltimore Oriole pitcher Dennis Martinez was beaned by a fan-propelled beer bottle at Chicago's Comiskey Park Red Smith wrote in The New York Times. There must be hoodlums who attend the theater or opera or ballet as well as baseball, football and hockey games, but they never throw things at the actors, and only certifiable crackpots try to slash the Mona Lisa or take a hammer to Michelangelo's Pieta Generally speaking, it is only at sports events that violence is done Customers who wouldn't dream of jeering at Barbra Streisand or Luciano...

Author: By Michael Bann, | Title: A Not-So-Bright Night | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...hero is observed just before the Arthurian legend, when the world is a crystalline Stonehenge and miracles are the order of the day. His teacher is a sage (played by Edmund Lyndeck, a seasoned performer). The faun who haunts his dreams (Rebecca Wright) is a comet from American Ballet Theater. And his enemy, the wicked Queen, is Chita Rivera, a blast furnace best remembered from West Side Story. In the classic tradition, gorgon and wise man vie for the magician's soul and the privilege of influencing the unseen Arthur, the once and future king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It a Magic Show or a Fire? | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

White House offspring update: with six months remaining on his contract with the Joffrey Ballet, the President's younger son Ron Reagan, 24, announced last week that he was abandoning his career in dance. He had received some encouraging reviews, but it seemed unlikely that he would ever become a solo star. Ron said that he intended to concentrate on "other interests," which reportedly included writing. Meanwhile, Maureen Reagan, 42, has added "gameshow personality" to her résumé, at $1,100 per appearance. Maureen and her husband, Dennis Revell, 29, a cable-TV consultant, taped a Tattletales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

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