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...acting--with a few negligible exceptions--is superb. The heart of this play--Prince Hal (Bill Camp) and Sir John Falstaff (Jeremy Geidt)--beats with perfect rhythm. Mistress Quickly (Remio Airaldi), Doll Tearsheet (Maggie Rush), the Archbishop of York (Herb Downer), and Justice Shallow (William Young) are particularly memorable. Under the direction of Ron Daniels, these characters are shaped pertinently from the text. Not simply characters from Shakespeare, they are characters we interact with daily They are our friends and families; they are ourselves...
...When his wife Courtney Love appeared with their infant daughter, she pleaded with the paparazzi, "Hold it, my baby needs some psychic space." By the count of three, however, the child had apparently recuperated, and rock-star wife and rock-star baby posed for the cameras. The only real downer of the night was rap star Snoop Doggy Dogg's arrest after the ceremony in a real-life murder investigation...
Another Day, Another Downer...
...from New York City to Paris to Tokyo are booking rooms, making reservations and hatching plans for the mega-night. Those who don't start planning now may find themselves, on the night of nights, all dressed up with no place to go. And that would be quite a downer -- sort of like watching all the nines on your car odometer roll over into zeros and having no one to share it with...
...like your drama in the flesh, check out the Loeb Drama Center on Brattle Street, home to the American Repertory Theatre. The renowned troop will perform Ibsen's downer "Hedda Gabler" and George Bernard Shaw's farce "Misalliance" this summer...