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McNally said there were a number of factors that led to his writing the current Broadway hit, "Master Class," about a series of master classes the opera singer Maria Callas held at Julliard in the mid-1970s.
SHE HAS THE SCARIEST EYES IN movies. They can radiate pain or anger with the immediacy of a lightning flash and the intensity of a witch's curse. Angela Bassett should be cast as Medusa or Medea, but because she is a movie star, she plays righteous cops and sanctified...
6 MASTER CLASS The role is larger than life: the century's most famous diva, Maria Callas, captured at an age when her voice has left but her ego remains as outsized as ever. The performance is commensurately grand: Zoe Caldwell, by turns imperious and humbled, cruel and sympathetic. Terrence...
Caldwell scissors across the stage in lean and elegant black. Although she does not sing a note, she does a brilliant job of suggesting--with the turn of a hand, the tilt of her head--the minor adjustments of someone attending to an inner genius; you don't doubt that...
Her performance is strong enough to make you overlook the play's shortcomings. Master Class has a less gratifying shape than what may be McNally's best play, also Callas inspired, The Lisbon Traviata (it's also less well constructed than last year's uneven Love! Valour! Compassion!, which nevertheless...