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...third slot, Harvard will likely feature freshman Shawn Haviland, who holds a 5-1 record for the season and pitched a gem in a 10-3 win over Brown on Tuesday...
...With their poetic, often meandering dialogue, the plays typically start slow (anyone who says his eyes have never drooped in the first act of an August Wilson play probably isn't being honest), but build to thrilling, sometimes violent, often otherworldly, climaxes. And although the last one, Gem of the Ocean, almost didn't make it to Broadway (after an investor pulled out, producer Carol Shorenstein Hays, who had backed Fences, put in $1 million to save it), they have drawn black theatergoers in droves to a street that is still known, without irony, as the Great White...
Radio Golf brings the cycle into the 1990s. It is set in an inner-city redevelopment office, where two black businessmen (one of them running for mayor) are seeking to clear space for a new commercial development. There are purposeful echoes of earlier plays: descendants of two characters from Gem of the Ocean (set in 1904) are on hand, as is a character from Wilson's 1960s play Two Trains Running; and Aunt Ester's home is the last one marked for demolition. The social message is more overt than most in Wilson's canon: the play is about...
Wilson's views haven't changed. The plight of black theater, he says, is even worse today, while color-blind casting has exploded--Denzel Washington in Julius Caesar and James Earl Jones in On Golden Pond on Broadway this spring alone. "If I see a production of Gem of the Ocean with a white cast, maybe I'll change my mind. But Death of a Salesman with a black cast--that's not the way blacks respond to this problem. It's a white play. It's intended to be." He realizes that is not a popular view among African...
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale: Made from the same stuff as beer, this gem from California-based Sierra Nevada Brewing Company is actually denoted a barleywine. With a burnt orange color in the glass, this creation has a distinctly more alcoholic taste. It’s not wine, but it’s not beer either. That said, the taste is smooth and rich, with hints of citrus and caramel poking out amongst the strong notes of malt and hops. Fortified with an impressive 9.6 percent alcohol, you can expect to drink 60 percent less liquid for the same...