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There's nothing regrettable about a revival per se. Indeed, it's usually regarded as a positive sign when the commercial theater finds room for Hamlet or The Master Builder -- although even Rodgers and Hammerstein did not confuse themselves with Shakespeare and Ibsen. The pleasure can be the same whether the effort is a shrine built to the original, as in 1990's unimaginative but impeccable reproduction of Fiddler on the Roof, or a piece of fey revisionism such as 1992's cartoon reconception of Guys and Dolls, which turned into the hottest ticket in town and helped spark this...
When Britain created a national theater, it turned to Laurence Olivier. If the American stage had set out to form a national troupe, it almost surely would not have turned to Tony Randall. And it certainly would not have expected him to direct Ibsen or to cast himself repeatedly in romantic leads decades younger than he is. At the dawning of his grandiosely named National Actors Theatre, Randall recalled last week, New York Times critic Frank Rich characterized the venture as a TV actor's ego trip...
...eccentric, this staging of Timon is a vast improvement over what preceded it: in the first season a murky, static staging of The Crucible, a labored, lumpen version of a Feydeau bedroom farce and a rendition of Ibsen's The Master Builder about which even Randall, who directed, can't find anything good to say; in the much improved second season, an intelligent, revisionist reading of The Seagull, a solid (and Tony-nominated) Saint Joan and the George Abbott comedy Three Men on a Horse, with Randall supremely skillful if utterly miscast as a husband...
Lady from the Sea. Through Nov. 14. A revival of Henrik Ibsen's tale of Ellida Wangel, a wife who dreams of leaving the domestic life. $18-$38. Call 266-0800 for more information...
Lady from the Sea. Through Nov. 14. A revival of Henrik Ibsen's tale of Ellida Wangel, a wife who dreams of leaving the domestic life. $18-$38. Call 266-0800 for more information...