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Gesturing wildly in the air, a logician concludes that Socrates was in fact a cat while a townsperson-turned-rhinoceros roams the village. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production of absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” shines when presenting such over-the-top antics; but true victory lies in its profound and stirring interpretation of the work’s dark underlying themes...

Author: By Natasha M. Platt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burkle’s Strong Direction Carries | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

...Prayer.” Shakira, who pens her own lyrics, excels with English lines such as “And if you wrote the script/then why the troublemakers?” Despite this show of lyrical enlightenment, lines like, “Can you tell me why the cat fights the dog?” reduce the song’s overall bite.The album’s first single, “Don’t Bother” is highly reminiscent of Alanis Morissette’s early ’90s boyfriend abandonment rant...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...writer, Vogel says, she wants to be as intimate with anyone who works on or reads one of her plays as she is with one of her lovers. She cites an epiphany-like experience she had years ago while reading Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” as the cause of this frankness. “I stopped in the middle of reading and thought, ‘Oh my God. I’m having a conversation with Tennessee Williams,’” she said. As last Thursday?...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playwriting Prof Unearths Unusual Inspirations | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

Harvard Square Bestsellers Hardcover Fiction 1. The Lighthouse P.D. James 2. On Beauty Zadie Smith 3. The Rabbi’s Cat Joann Sfar 4. Memories of My Melancholy Whores Gabriel Garcia Marquez 5. The Sea John Banville 6. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits Laila Lalami 7. Monologue of a Dog Wislawa Szymborska 8. Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 9. Slow Man J.M. Coetzee 10. Trouble with Poetry Billy Collins Hardcover Nonfiction 1. Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2. Team of Rivals Doris Kearns-Goodwin 3. Education of a Coach David Halberstam 4. The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Top Books | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

Tony has more teeth. Eleanor is bigger. Hector is weirder. As monsters go, Leonardo is simply terrible: he can't scare anyone. And no wonder. In Willems' witty, angular renderings, he is an adorable little terror. But he has a plan--to find "the most scaredy-cat kid in the whole world and scare the tuna salad out of him!" That leads him to Sam. After Leonardo performs a full repertoire of growls, glares and gesticulations, Sam bawls. Not because of Leonardo, alas, but because of a monumental toddler's hard-luck saga that he tells the monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Children's Books of 2005 | 11/30/2005 | See Source »

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