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...Hasty Pudding Theatre—a Harvard Square landmark for over a century—will reopen under a new name and welcome more occupants next month, drawing the curtain on more than two years of renovations. Recently dubbed the New College Theatre, the venue will host some of the 40 to 60 productions Harvard undergraduates organize each year. The theater will remain home to its traditional residents, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT), the Harvard Krokodiloes, and the Radcliffe Pitches, but also will contain rehearsal space for other performance groups...
...Opera King's Final Curtain Call...
...curtain call for idleness has come and gone in our lives...
...Rove's Curtain Call The Sultan of spin, Karl Rove, may be leaving the White House but not with his tail between his legs [Aug. 27]. Writer James Carney reminded us that Rove brushed aside George W. Bush's failure in bipartisanship because of what Rove called the hostility of the Democrats. Rove also discounted polls that portrayed a damaged American image in the world as politically imprecise. He will spend a little more time with his family of two, cut a bit of Texas brush with his buddy at the Crawford compound and continue to pursue his dream...
...such as one character in the play who scolds a painter for copying Picassos. But some elements of the Almodóvar original have been enhanced by the adaptation. The theme of fertility - of pregnancies and menopausal women - resonates in the dramatic space of the theater, which as the curtain rises is pregnant with possibility, but by the end is filled with emptiness, as the seats are vacated and the actors slip off-stage. It is also a joy to watch so many women on stage obviously relishing an ensemble work. Diana Rigg's stately performance as Huma...