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...Tony Awards time (this Sunday on CBS at 8 p.m. ET), and that means time for the annual lamentations about the state of the Broadway theater. Most of the angst this spring has been directed at the dearth of straight plays, at least those with enough beef to legitimately compete for a Best Play award. Two of the four nominees this year (Anna in the Tropics and The Retreat From Moscow) closed months ago. And the favorite to win is I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright?s rather trumped-up monologue about an East German transvestite who recounts...
...Still, this is hardly the year to complain about a lack of seriousness on Broadway. Start with the fourth Tony nominee for Best Play: Frozen, a brooding three-character drama about a child molester and two women who relate to him in very different ways. Each of the three - the pedophile, the mother of a 10-year-old girl he has murdered, and a scientist who uses him as a subject for her research into the criminal mind - speak directly, and separately, to the audience, in that dreary minimalist mode of so many new plays. But Irish playwright Bryony Lavery...
...forget the shows that the Tony nominators ignored. I was happy to see Sixteen Wounded, Eliam Kraiem?s drama about a Jewish bakery owner in Amsterdam who befriends a Palestinian terrorist on the lam, make a stab at Broadway, even though it bombed. Though formulaic, I thought the play had potential when I saw it at New Haven?s Long Wharf Theater in early 2003. But it went badly awry on the road to Broadway, with some misguided rewriting, recasting of the lead role (Judd Hirsch replacing the more credible Martin Landau) and a set that divided the stage into...
...blacks and whites are having separate conversations - that's been true for 400 years - it's that comments such as the ones Cosby made could be used as bricks for different groups of blacks to wall themselves off from each other. That would be a shame. Right now, on Broadway, Cosby's erstwhile sitcom wife, Phylicia Rashad, is co-starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside one of the most successful current purveyors of hip-hop slang, rapper/would-be actor Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. When I saw the show, I thought there was something profoundly appealing about seeing two different...
DIED. JUNE TAYLOR, 86, Emmy Award--winning choreographer whose high-kicking, wide-smiling routines on The Jackie Gleason Show introduced the Broadway-inspired chorus line to television audiences in the 1950s and '60s; in Miami. When a bout of tuberculosis at age 20 derailed her career as a Chicago nightclub dancer, she founded her own touring company, the June Taylor Dancers, and in 1946 ran into Gleason at a Baltimore nightclub...