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...other end of the scale of suffering is Wasserstein's wry comedy about three sisters (yes, they make frequent references to Chekhov) whose problem is not failing to get to Moscow but failing to stay, spiritually, in their ancestral Jewish Brooklyn. All three are compulsive achievers. The eldest, broodingly played by Jane Alexander, is a global banker based in London, where the others have come to visit. The youngest (Frances McDormand) is a tomboyish travel writer who lives more for the escape of travel than for the art of writing. The middle sister (Madeline Kahn) is a self-credentialed / psychotherapist...
EVERYTHING ABOUT MEXICAN PAINTER Frida Kahlo was high drama. In pain all her life after a streetcar accident, she battled drugs and despair, had a tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and conducted affairs with women and men, including Leon Trotsky. FRIDA, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, adds to her stature as cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose...
...their disabilities. IBM, Apple Computers, AT&T and Kodak's Atex- division, which produces a word-processing system designed for journalists, have all been named in the suits, which demand damages of up to a $1 million or more per victim. Last June, a U.S. district judge in Brooklyn lumped together more than 44 suits against 63 manufacturers in an attempt to arrive at some ground rules for dealing with such cases. More than 200 cases have been added since. Although the final outcome could take years, some liability experts predict that the ultimate payout on RSI suits could rival...
Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other Identities by Anna Deavere Smith, at the American Repertory Theater...
...troupe's New York City debut, ending Oct. 11. Mnouchkine, who works in an abandoned munitions factory in Paris and refuses to perform in a conventional theater, took Montreal spectators to a hockey arena. In New York, sponsors had to remove 375 military vehicles from a Brooklyn armory...