Word: houstons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing nearly 400 years later, it is a dirty, overcrowded cabin cruiser, inhabited by a contentious crew of incompetents who could not navigate a bathtub, let alone the meandering river he provides them in Way Upstream. But, Ayckbourn being Ayckbourn, his newest play, which received its American premiere at Houston's Alley Theater last week, is often also extremely funny, a social allegory that amuses before it frightens...
...unique exchange program with the Alley, Ayckbourn, who is director of productions of the Stephen Joseph Theater in the Round in Scarborough, has transported his company to Houston to present this work and one of his earlier plays, Absent Friends. There is nothing out-of-the-suitcase about Way Upstream, however: the Alley production is perhaps as ambitious a staging as has ever been attempted by a regional theater. The playwright's River Orb has been regurgitated into a 20,000-gal. tank of water; a 24-ft. cabin cruiser has been assembled inside; and a huge sprinkler system...
Boston 100, Houston...
After serving for more than a decade as a detective in the Los Angeles police department, Joseph Wambaugh (The New Centurions, The Choirboys, The Glitter Dome), 45, permanently traded in his pistol for a pen. When the city of Houston began a search for a new police chief, Wambaugh's name turned up on the list of eleven candidates put together by the mayor's office. According to an aide of Mayor Kathy Whitmire, not everyone on the list is a serious contender for the $81,000-a-year job, but no one will be immediately ruled...
...Houston 120, Denver...