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From the moment the curtain rose last night on the Theatricals's 138th annual production, "Between the Sheiks," the audience easily forgot the offstage drama surrounding their Man of the Year, and happily warmed to the hot desert sun of Solong, Abyssinia...
...stopped various Administrations from trying at least to chip away at Soviet domination of the East bloc. Secretary of State George Shultz last week became the latest U.S. statesman to try, touring a trio of East European capitals in the hope of lifting the Iron Curtain an inch...
Admittedly, it takes a lot of elbow grease to put a shine on a play that seems well-worn even before the curtain goes up. The Players took a gamble in dragging The Sorceror off some dusty, dark shelf out into the limelight. Yet at least they could have done it with polish...
These errors and the near total collapse of the second act must be laid at the feet of the director. While the production will certainly appear to be better integrated this weekend after one round of performances, the curtain should have never gone up without these gaffes having been forcibly expurgated...
...curtain at Frankfurt's Kammerspiel theater had just gone up on the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder's controversial 1975 play Garbage, City and Death, and the stage was filled with almost 30 protesters. The interlopers, members of Frankfurt's Jewish community, unfurled a banner reading SUBSIDIZED ANTI- SEMITISM and announced that they would not allow the play to go on. They remained onstage for nearly three hours, engaging the audience in a spirited discussion of what some critics call the "garbage play." The protesters argued that staging the play, whose main character is an unscrupulous real estate speculator identified...