Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taciturn, scholarly, pipe-smoking Bostonian who spent most of his professional years on Massachusetts papers, Lyons was a logical choice for the post. His reporting was often concerned with the campus. One of his first scoops, for the Springfield, Mass., Republican, concerned an academic scandal at Amherst College that led to the forced resignation of Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn. And even before departing the Boston Globe, his last paper, Lyons began doubling as a public relations aide to James B. Conant, then Harvard's president...
...brief plays at the Hotel Bostonian do credit to the Theatre Company and to modern drama--the two being closely connected in Boston. They certainly deserve a response enthusiastic enough to encourage them to open another season next fall...
...translater took "for the sake of fashioning a coherent play" almost certainly improved on the original, bringing A Country Scandal closer to Chekhov's mature comedies. And since director Frank Cassidy has freely interpreted Szogyi's adaptation as a controlled farce, the version of the play at the Hotel Bostonian Playhouse actually may be more worth performing than what young Chekhov had in mind. It is certainly worth seeing...
...setting, the costuming, and the excellent entrescene score by Jean Prodromides--is either quaint or grotesque, but never bland. In this early play, his third, Brecht was already the brash, colorful, mystic iconoclast. All of his qualities are respected and encouraged in this successful production at the Hotel Bostonian Playhouse...
...entrance, for example, is heralded by a flurry of background music, which eventually takes on Symbolic Meaning. When the tenor saxophone which originally played for Tolen begins to announce Colin's arrival late in act two, it means that he's been transformed, I suppose. In the tiny Hotel Bostonian theatre, where no seat is more than twenty-five feet from the stage, the music is merely distracting...