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...original, Antonio and Bassanio have such extreme affection for each other that each is willing to offer up his life for the other without a second thought. Director Erik Salovaara makes this relationship less disquieting by changing Antonio into a woman, Antonia. Joanna Skoler's controlled performance and a few gender-altered pronouns smooth the transformation...
...race winners were novice and varsity rowers Kathe Ashenbrenner, Amy Pare, Serena Eddy, Mary McCagg, Karen Weltchek, Joanna Bench, Sarah Touborg, Jennifer Grossman, and Kenni Feinberg...
Still, every season someone attempts to revive the form. This year's example is Social Security, the bawdy but bland story of a Manhattan art dealer (Marlo Thomas), her suburban sister (Joanna Gleason), their respective husbands (Ron Silver and Kenneth Welsh) and the aged mother who drives them crazy (Olympia Dukakis). Playwright Andrew Bergman has written lustily funny movies (Blazing Saddles, Fletch), but he places only ticktock jokework on the stage. Worse, he creates situations of real pathos and then anesthetizes them. The matriarch is 80, unable to get around without a walker, unwilling to be left alone...
Someone claiming to be a former Harvard Summer School student told a dean's office at Denver that he was stranded in Denver and trying to borrow money to get to his home in California, according to Joanna M. Murray, assistant dean of students at the University of Denver...
...mars virtually every scene in which Jack Stehlin appears (in the role of the murdered Alonzo's brother). The show's only virtuoso acting comes from John Bottoms as the tragic villain De Flores. As an impoverished nobleman in the Vermandero household, De Flores is the instrument of Beatrice-Joanna's downfall, and he oozes evil. Fine-tuned to gruesome perfection by Bottoms (here of the shiny bald pate and knock-kneed posture), De Flores is a cross between Igor and Iago, first fawning on Beatrice-Joanna, then exacting fealty--and a whole lot more--for being...