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The net effect is a powerful display of theater's seductive capacity to disparage illusion one moment, then compellingly restore it the next. Still, many Cambridge viewers remain baffled. They appear not to grasp that most of the scenario is Pirandello's rather than Brustein's and that despite the...
There are good reasons why the growth of American museums has reached this temporary peak in Los Angeles. It is the second biggest city in the U.S., and determined to make itself felt. It teems with new money thirsting for status through art. In Los Angeles, city of therapies, one...
There is no such thing, alas, as a new play by Anton Chekhov, and certainly not one written in English rather than his native Russian. But Adapter Michael Frayn has achieved the satisfying illusion of one in Wild Honey, a dizzyingly funny romantic farce culled from Chekhov's untitled, and...
Even so, many of the great Dane's stories have remained in the repertoire because, as Isak Dinesen once observed, he "can be so indescribably simple and touching . . . he is a great magician." Andersen's grandest illusion takes place in The Ugly Duckling (Knopf; $10.95). Illustrator Robert Van Nutt begins...
Japan's economic troubles threaten a precious social contract: lifetime employment. In return for loyalty to their employer, Japanese workers have come to expect that they will never be fired. (In fact, that unwritten pact has applied mainly to employees of large companies rather than those of small businesses). As...