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...most exciting thing is not what LaChiusa is doing now, but what he may do next. In vision and pure nerve, he promises to rival William Finn of Falsettos -- if not Stephen Sondheim himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century, Tryst By Tryst | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...article in the Atlantic which gave Barrett national recognition, he wrote, "Call it Huck Finn's law: The authentic American flourishes in spite of schooling, not because...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Democrats Ponder: | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

Benjamin's performance as Marat alternates between indifference and vehemence without reason. He expels his lines with lethargic volume, but does not quite seem to understand the import of his words. The three singers, played by Finn Moore Gerety, Jonathan Weinberg and Rebecca Boggs, are effective and solid, propelling the play forward with energy and style. The patients of the asylum are remarkable in creating boisterous chaos together and for sustaining their small ticks and twitches throughout the two-hour show...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: A Crew of Lunatics | 12/16/1993 | See Source »

Food, folks, and fun: what more could the Co-opers want? "We didn't feel a need to do or say anything," Finn summarized. "It was like all the best parts of Thanksgiving without the bad parts--good food and company without the stress and guilt that comes with going home," he explained...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Gobble, Gobble at the Co-op | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...best clue to what the country might be like without race as the nail upon which American identity is hung comes from Pap, in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, who upon learning a Negro could vote in Ohio, "drawed out. I says I'll never vote ag'in." Without his glowing white mask he is not American; he is Faulkner's character Wash, in Absalom, Absalom!, who, stripped of the mask and treated like a "nigger," drives a scythe into the heart of the rich white man he has loved and served so completely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Backs of Blacks | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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