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...Roundabout Theater in the decade of its existence has always had the anticipatory excitement of going on an archaeological dig. You can usually count on a dramatic find, something that no other theater group is likely to be doing. In recent seasons, the Roundabout's venturesome founders, Gene Feist and Michael Fried, have offered playgoers a delectable comedy of sexual theatrics, Molnar's The Play's the Thing; Barrie's salute to the canny primacy of the female, What Every Woman Knows; and a world première of James Joyce's Dubliners steeped...
While the lines are amusing, the story is sometimes becalmed - but never for very long. Paced by Gene Feist's animatedly stylish direction, the Round about Theater Company makes this revival a comic refreshment...
Father and daughter have both long been widowed, but at 70 the old man is sanguine enough to marry Fay, a redneck trollop 30 years his junior, and introduce her into genteel circles. Fay is in every way Laurel's opposite-a shrewd, stupid vixen with a "little feist chin" who questions any altruistic gesture made to her, not out of skepticism but simple inability to comprehend...
Shortly after the war, Honecker married Edith Baumann, an old-line Communist official, three years his senior. In 1953, he divorced her and took as his wife Margot Feist, then 20, a beautiful and talented youth leader from Halle. Appointed Minister of Education in 1963, she helped turn East Germany's schools into model institutions; many West Germans readily concede that education is one area where the Communist half of Germany has outperformed their own part of the country. There is talk that she may be elevated to the Politburo when the Party Congress meets in June, and even...
Uncle Vanya is a tale of stunted, shunted, desiccated lives. "Can these bones live?" one might ask of the characters. They do in this lovingly fleshed-out revival of the play by off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater, under its able and adventurous director, Gene Feist...