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...Tull is a giddy, then abruptly deadly daughter. The most remarkable aspect of Director Robin Lynn Smith's production is the showcase it provides for Kathy Bates, 37, who since her Tony-nominated performance in 1983's night, Mother has firmly established herself as one of the nation's foremost character actresses. Although Bates is capable of gothic comic excess, here she underplays the mother as a frustrated housewife, aware of a larger world of culture and glamour outside somewhere but awkwardly uncertain about just what she is missing. Bates perfectly balances the ruthless selfishness of the mother's ambitions...
...prices have passed $50 a barrel, and fears abound that they're headed higher over the long term. What's next for oil, and what might higher prices mean for the global economy? To find out, AMY FELDMAN debriefed DANIEL YERGIN, one of the world's foremost oil experts. Yergin, 58, is chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a member of the Secretary of Energy's advisory board and author of the Pulitzer prizewinning book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power...
Grind's director, Harold Prince, perhaps the foremost present-day mounter of book musicals, has said that he plans to take an informal sabbatical to ponder ways of coping with the pitfalls now facing the form. The first, simple step is one that he ought to remember from the days when he staged such shows as Cabaret and Sweeney Todd: have something worth saying and tell it in the most direct and honest way. --By William A. Henry...
First and foremost, we should celebrate the divestment itself. Harvard’s investment in PetroChina contributed to supporting a massive genocide (400,000 dead, 10,000 more each month) by supporting the Sudanese Government. We celebrate the end of that divestment because we hope it contributes to ending the genocide...
Sure, these indie-rockers are entertainers, and good ones at that, but placing them in a museum setting reminds listeners that they are artists, first and foremost, and paints them in just such a light. “Having them perform outside the clubs gives them a different framework,” notes Hirsch, delighting in the obvious truth of his statement...