Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These two acts make up Principia Scriptoriae, a passionate, enlightened and altogether admirable play by Richard Nelson. Now being performed off-Broadway, it has been accorded a rare honor for an American play: Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company will produce it in London this fall. The cumbersome title is a punning Latinate reference to the rules for sound literary construction and the morals that artists ought to live by. Yet Nelson focuses on two characters who are not artists, merely intelligent men. The narrative is less concerned with the fate of the poet than with their enduring misunderstanding and mistrust...
...very long ago, Broadway was thickly settled with relentlessly cheerful domestic comedies. Almost invariably these plays were set in some showcase living room. As soon as the curtain went up, audiences applauded the unassertive furniture, as if in affirmation of their own good taste. That kind of play is all but dead, killed by high ticket prices that prompt theatergoers to demand something special, and by the genre's own dishonesty. When a TV sitcom resolves an impossible problem in half an hour, viewers know that more trouble will crop up next week. In the theatrical equivalent, pain is glibly...
...assure one another that her self-abasing behavior is a phase she will outgrow. In another subplot, the girl's parents consider divorce, but the audience cannot see the agony they profess to feel. The entire proceedings, staged by Mike Nichols, are life as viewed through Saran Wrap. Although Broadway Veteran Nichols has mislaid his gift for telling detail, he has evoked maximum slickness and verve...
THIS IS THE bigtime, the Broadway of Harvard drama. The Mainstage...
Dylan Thomas lived 13 days past his 39th birthday and has been dead now for nearly 33 years. Yet the story of his spectacular rise and fall, recounted in several biographies, numerous memoirs and even a Broadway play that starred Alec Guinness, retains an eerie, timeless allure. Dylan's saga combines Orphic myth with cautionary tale. Depending on who does the reading, the hero was either an inspired, fragile bard who fell upon the thorns of life or an overpraised, cadging drunk who finally got what he had been asking for and deserved. Thomas' Collected Letters will fuel such disagreements...