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...vaudeville flair so far has overshadowed the dramatic skill she has shown, notably in the full-length The Catherine Wheel (1981). But from now on she ought to be recognized as a major choreographer; indeed it can already be said that this is Twyla Tharp's year. Her troupe, now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is launched on a national tour featuring three of her jazz classics (Eight Jelly Rolls, Sue's Leg, Baker's Dozen) and some provocative new pieces that break away from the American nostalgia that is her specialty. Nine Sinatra Songs...
...convinced that one school captures the popular imagination than another, one need only note Hollywood's preoccupation--Love Story. A Small Circle of Friends. The Last Convertible. The Paper Chase--have all centered on life along the Charles. A Yale spokesman recently could not recall a single full-length movie about his school, but countered that "Love Story was written at Yale, and there were several Yale names in it even though it took place at Harvard." He added that "in Bedtime for Bonzo [starring Ronald Reagan, who went to Eureka], the monkey in the end gets smart enough...
...Boston Ballet has, unfortunately, made one mistake in the program. Before Carmina Burana is a disappointing 25-minute Pas de Dix choreographed by George Balanchine. Taken from a full-length ballet called Raymonda, it is supposed to highlight the elegance and precision of classical ballet--a task which, even though accomplished, isn't worth the effort. Traditional, sappy, and restrained, the excerpt is uninspiring and seems to make the dancers less careful about their technique. Although they briefly spice up the atmosphere now and then by switching the dancers to Flamenco style, the general effect is nothing but cute...
...apparent candor of his speakers carries Gray's accounts of these interviews past Western preconceptions for a true "insider's view." In one of many long discussions with Sultana, a California-educated princess about to marry a Saudi businessman, Gray learns why women in Saudi Arabia accept wearing full-length veils and submitting to the wills of their husbands and fathers...
...characters in this year's plays inhabit a landscape of dead or deferred dreams. In John Pielmeier's Courage, the Scots playwright James M. Barrie laments "the fierce joy of loving too much. It is a terrible thing!" Courage avoids the standard pitfall of the full-length monologue: that of making its subject too ingratiating. It keeps Barrie at a respectful distance from his audience and his own feelings until late in the play, when he relates the awful fates of the four children who inspired characters in his Peter Pan. Actor Paul Collins gives Barrie...