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...Adams Pool Theatre through April 26, plays like a familiar, hackneyed old friend. But although this set up has the potential to be a boring reiteration of deserted island clichés, the details and the cast’s animated performances bring immediacy to the characters, who command the audience’s full attention. “Our city lives have left us wanting more excitement,” the characters sing in the opening scene, expressing a sentiment with which many students trapped between papers and midterms can identify. The musical’s book, co-written...
...North of England, and we have not broken him yet. But he has an odd way with the fair sex. He will be gentle.”She could not speak. She only felt her head nod as of its own volition, saw again her body move without her command, her hand reaching out imperiously to take his arm. And she watched herself, as if from a distance, walk with The Stable Boy toward the stables.Chapter 4 to appear in ArtsMonday...
...this.” Though humor is a large aspect of almost any Internet phenomenon, ROFLCon isn’t all fun and games. Scholars from around the country will moderate the panels and address online pop culture from an academic perspective. The topic doesn’t currently command much serious intellectual study, but ROFLCon may help change that. “A conference devoted to Internet culture is legitimizing in itself,” says Alice Marwick, a Ph.D. student at New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication and the keynote speaker at ROFLCon...
Lesson Two: You can rattle the Americans and the Iraqi government considerably by attacking the Green Zone. Blasts in the enclave where the Iraqi government and the American command stay had fallen off steeply until the most recent wave of fighting. In recent months people inside the Green Zone felt safer and maybe a little bolder - possibly one reason for picking a fight in Basra. But a steady hail of rockets falling on and around Iraqi government buildings suddenly got Maliki talking about a political compromise with Sadr, at least for a time. In other words, the "heavily fortified" Green...
...free-trade agreement with that country - even as Clinton was denouncing the deal, which is vehemently opposed by many of the unions that she is counting on to support her in the make-or-break Pennsylvania primary on April 22. The news caught the rest of the Clinton high command by surprise. A campaign source says Penn had promised to keep it apprised when he had any personal dealings with Burson-Marsteller clients who might present a political embarrassment for Clinton. "This was not among that litany," the official said...