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...most nods - The History Boys, with 8, and the revival of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing, with 9 - left me cold. For my own picks of six new Broadway shows that are worth a visit, see this week's magazine. (Add one more play that I touted earlier - Festen, the grueling and gripping family drama from London that, for some reason, got snubbed by both the critics and the Tony nominators.) And here are my picks of the shows to avoid - the out-and-out bombs, and a few overrated shows that you'll be hearing a lot more from...
NURSE CAROL HATHAWAY The creepy family reunion Julianna Margulies attends with Ali MacGraw in Broadway's Festen gets dark, but having survived being left by George Clooney's Dr. Ross, she should get through...
...FESTEN DAVID ELDRIDGE Family get-togethers are hardly rare on Broadway, but rarely are they so disorienting or ominous as this one is. It's not just the revelation about sexual abuse that son Christian lays on the guests at his father's 60th-birthday party but also the eerie nonreaction to it--the way the placid surface of programmed jollity barely ripples. That, along with the stark, almost abstract staging by director Rufus Norris, gives this London import (an adaptation of the Danish film The Celebration) the hollow, haunted feel of Samuel Beckett, not Arthur Miller. With a strong...
Like Goldreich, the other arrested whites were also prominent in South Africa's intellectual community: Lawyer Robert Hepple; Dr. Hilliard Festen-stein, a noted medical researcher; Engineer Dennis Goldberg; Architect Lionel Bernstein. Among the nonwhites seized was Walter Sisulu, onetime Secretary-General of the banned African National Congress and one of the country's most wanted...
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