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...college, not Iraq.) The climactic gravity is meant to threaten the kids that their beloved franchise may be no more. Yet we know that a fourth High School Musical is already in the works? And can Disney's theatrical arm possibly resist sending their golden goose to Broadway? After all, Mary Poppins is playing just down the block from the Empire Theatre...
...college, not Iraq.) The climactic gravity is meant to threaten the kids that their beloved franchise may be no more. Yet we know that a fourth High School Musical is already in the works? And can Disney's theatrical arm possibly resist sending their golden goose to Broadway? After all, Mary Poppins is playing just down the block from the Empire Theatre...
...revenge). Some plays are stripped-down monologues, like Judith Thompson's Palace of the End, in which an Iraqi woman, a British weapons expert and a U.S. soldier who took part in prisoner abuse tell their stories; others are more ambitious, experimental and experiential. Coming soon to off-off-Broadway: a 3 1/2-hour environmental-theater event called Surrender, in which audience members are put through simulated training and deployment to Iraq, taught how to search for insurgents and then sent back home to go through rehab at Walter Reed. Turn off your cell phones, please, and return...
...Iraq war has still not made it all the way to Broadway. But the plays that keep emerging--from regional theaters, from overseas, as well as from the hothouse of off-Broadway--represent an artistic chronicle of the evolution of the war, both on the ground and in Americans' hearts and minds. As the war drags on but recedes from the headlines, the political satires of the early years (like Embedded and the British screed The Madness of George Dubya) have been supplanted by more rueful--one might say resigned--plays, which shift the focus from macro to micro...
...that the antiwar message has disappeared altogether. In Beast, a heavy-handed parable by Michael Weller (Moonchildren) that has just finished an off-Broadway run, a maimed Iraq-war vet rises from the hospital morgue to join his buddy on an allegorical trek back home from Germany, winding up at the Texas compound of their Commander in Chief, referred to coyly as "G.W." ("I am here because strong people put me here," he says, "and weak ones went along.") The war critique is more soft-pedaled in docuplays like In Conflict, a collection of monologues by war veterans, adapted...