Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then flag down an astonished cabbie ("White people!" his face says) and go back through Sugar Hill to 145th Street and Broadway. The character of this area, with its many Dominican immigrants, is raffish and polyglot. One store, the House of Talisman, is downright polytheistic. In the window of this religious-goods mart, wooden Indians rub elbows with statues of the Madonna and an ebony St. Martin of Tours; inside, Holy Seven Spiritual Good Luck Bath Oil and the ever reliable Gamblers Drops are for sale. Next door is a nice place for early dinner: Copeland's, which speaks...
MEMBER OF THE WEDDING. Esther Rolle (Good Times) and newcomer Amelia Campbell glow as nanny and budding adolescent in this deeply moving off-Broadway revival of Carson McCullers' coming-of-age story of the pre-civil rights South...
GHETTO. Joshua Sobol's Nazi-era tragicomedy, seen across the U.S. in an Israeli production, makes its English-language debut on Broadway, with the same vibrant staging...
Sing, written by Dean Pitchford and directed by Richard Baskin, could be called 42nd Street: Duh Motion Pitchuh. It carts all the cliches of a Broadway backstage story to a decrepit Brooklyn Central High and populates it with Sesame Street renegades. Each class puts on a musical skit, or "sing," with groups led by a black, a Greek, an Italian and a Jew -- the "rainbow coalition" that exists only in Hollywood musicals. Yes, the tough Italian stud (Peter Dobson) falls for the sweet Jewish girl (Jessica Steen). And, honest, when the star of her skit gets knocked unconscious, the stud...
...city's annual Humana Festival redeems its reputation with promising works by writers known and unknown. -- Temptation, by jailed Czech activist Vaclav Havel, opens off-Broadway...