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David Hare’s fascinating and intricately crafted adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde made waves in 1998 with its scintillating high profile run on Broadway. The play is a satiric and penetrating look at the ideals, fallacies and experiences of love and sex in a society filled with lust and treachery, but tempered with the consistent yearning for a lasting connection. Tickets $18. 8 p.m. Actors Workshop Proscenium Theatre, 327 Summer Street, Boston...
...World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Beforehand, join him for a reception to raise a glass. Sponsored by the Harvard Book Store, the Harvard University English Department and the Harvard University Art Museums. Free. 5 p.m. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave. 6 p.m. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 485 Broadway...
DIED. FRED EBB, 76, lyricist who, in partnership with composer John Kander, created the brassy, cynical-but-sweet scores of such Broadway musicals as Cabaret and Chicago; of a heart attack; in New York City. He grew up on the Lower East Side and first went to Hollywood to try to sell his short stories before turning to songwriting. After penning a few pop hits (including the novelty number Santa Baby), he teamed up with Kander for a renowned Broadway run that started with 1965's Flora the Red Menace. They were long associated with that show's star, Liza...
...rebellious lyrics, Ramone, the third member of the group to die in the past three years, was a lifelong Republican who belonged to the National Rifle Association. DIED. FRED EBB, 76, lyricist who, in partnership with composer John Kander, created the brassy, cynical-but-sweet scores of such Broadway musicals as Cabaret and Chicago; in New York City. After penning a few pop hits (including the novelty number Santa Baby), he teamed up with Kander for a long Broadway run that started with Flora the Red Menace in 1965. They were long associated with that show's star, Liza Minnelli...
...lights are still bright on Broadway, but for true theatrical wattage, Chicago is now the place to go. New York City's offerings tend to be more business than show, with astronomical theater rents and rocketing production prices. But the only things soaring in Chicago are the skyscrapers. Aided by tax breaks, theater there is free to take bigger risks, and the payoff is enormous. "Here, you neither fail nor succeed," says Goodman Theatre artistic director Robert Falls...