Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BESIDE HERSELF. If you were an off-Broadway producer who had hired movie star William Hurt, would you cast him as a crude, subliterate UPS deliveryman who has little to do, and less to say, in a fantasy piece centered on a pathetic and prematurely old widow? If so, you would disappoint audiences as keenly as New York City's Circle Repertory is doing...
MASTERGATE. The President dozes away his afternoons. A paranoid National Security Adviser travels by Stealth bomber. The true head of Government is a secretive CIA director who also happens to be dead. Larry Gelbart's fiercely funny Broadway satire lampoons events that made the evening news the sharpest comedy on TV. Joseph Daly is a dead-on George Bush, and the dialogue is an S.J. Perelmanesque stream -- debased, obfuscatory and unconsciously self- condemning. Samples: "I wonder if I might ask the Senator to stop raking over dead horses"; "What did the President know, and does he have any idea that...
Frayn's fast-paced Broadway hit, Noises Off, runs at the Loeb Mainstage this weekend. Revolving around the staging of a second-rate sex romp by a down and out theater, Noises Off will play next weekend as well...
...tenant on Broadway says he would move if rent control vanished because, "If these apartments weren't rent control they would probably be over $800 a month--then you might as well buy a house...
...tenant on Broadway, for instance, describes his family as "a young, professional, both-working couple without kids." And he says, "I don't see rent control as having affordable housing for people. They would only rent to people like...