Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain's David Hare, 38. His comedy Pravda, a broadside attack on the political inertia of Fleet Street, co-written with Howard Brenton, has become the hottest ticket in London. He wrote potent screenplays for two current films, Wetherby and Plenty, the latter an adaptation of his 1983 Broadway hit about postwar British decline as reflected in the tormented life of one politically involved woman. Now Hare's A Map of the World, being given its U.S. premiere at the off-Broadway Public Theater, has emerged as the most stimulating new play of the season...
Perhaps the Times's most blatant admission of its support for the city's large real-estate moguls was its recent canning of columnist Sydney Schanberg. Schanberg's column, called "New York," was a beat he clearly decided to cover thoroughly. Realizing that the New York of Broadway theatres, Times Square redevelopment (read gentrification) and egocentric mayors was being prominently displayed on the front page, Schanberg set out to cover a different New York...
Trevor Nunn has reached the shadowboxing phase, the most perilous in any artist's career. Having staged one of the era's most celebrated productions, Nicholas Nickleby, for his Royal Shakespeare Company, and the acclaimed musical Cats for London's West End and then Broadway, Nunn now must top himself each time out or face critics' speculation that his best work lies behind him. Just that sort of skepticism awaited the opening last week of Nunn's production of Les Miserables, a 3 1/2-hr. musical version of Victor Hugo's novel about revolutionary France. In article after article, London journalists...
...born Taidje Khan on Sakhalin Island, off the coast of Siberia, to a Rumanian Gypsy mother and a Swiss-Mongolian father. Reared in Peking and Paris, he was a cabaret singer and circus acrobat before becoming an actor, arriving in the U.S. in 1941 and making his Broadway debut in the 1946 Lute Song. He brought his bald-pated, brooding persona to three dozen films, most notably The Ten Commandments (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1958) and The Magnificent Seven...
...giving birth to his own screen legend with Citizen Kane. The sin of Welles' life was that it had two complementary, all-American acts: heroic tragedy, then celebrity farce. By the time he was 25, Welles had traveled the world, appeared at the Gate Theater in Dublin, stormed Broadway with crackling, sepulchral productions of Shakespeare and The Cradle Will Rock, scared America out of its wits with his War of the Worlds radio caprice, and served as producer, director, co-author and star of the most influential work in film history. Praised and vilified as a boy genius, Welles...