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The audience claps itself into a frenzy as Sergeant Sacrifice, played by Dean Gregory, comes to life, an American commando rigged up in military gear and black spandex pants. He struts and dances to the insistent thump of the disco hit "It's Raining Men" and strips down to a...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Too Many Cooks | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

"IF YOU BELIEVE in fairies clap your hands. Do you believe in fairies, Gertie?" Moon asks her pre-school daughter at bedtime. Mother claps her hands, hoping to instill in her child a normal preadolescent faith in a non-existent fantasy world where mythical beings prance. Gertie enthusiastically pounds her...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Intergalactic Tear-Jerker | 6/29/1982 | See Source »

The self-righteous Pentheus denies that Dionysus is the son of Zeus and vows to wipe out his followers in Thebes. Dionysus appears incognito, and a chorus of Asian-women converts hymn the beatific peace of serving the god of joy. Pentheus claps Dionysus in irons. The god miraculously escapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dire God of Joy | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

&#quot;We are really talking about peril," Kuriloff says in the living room of her Brentwood apartment. She is an intense, frail-looking, girlish woman of 39 who moves about when she speaks, dashing to the bookshelf to verify a remembered fragment of poetry, changing chairs to find one whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Confronting the Empty Page | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

If Dark of the Moon's characters are hollow, the stage atmosphere compensates and redeems Music director David L. Reiffel, however, has turned an already obvious plot into a play that has the subtlety of a bulldozer. You know when somebody says something prophetic (thunder claps in the background) and...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Beyond Redemption | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

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