Word: jon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arlene is more than brilliant acting; it is a revelation of the human spirit in extremis. Pamela Reed's Arlie has a stinging honesty that stems, in part, from never prettifying a particularly loathsome brat. Getting Out, Marsha Norman's first play, was initially staged at Jon Jory's Actors Theater of Louisville, and had a brief run at Marymount Manhattan's Phoenix last fall. Now tenanted in Greenwich Village at the Theater de Lys, it promises to be one of the prides of off-Broadway...
...used a little-known incident as the fulcrum of the drama. A survivor, Lewis Keseberg (Jon De Vries), instituted a slander trial against other members of the group, led by James Reed (Berkeley Harris), who had accused him of theft and murder. Though Keseberg won his suit, the trial records do not exist, so the play is an imaginative reconstruction...
Devour the Snow is a profoundly moral play in the guise of a murder thriller. Polsky probes areas of guilt, self-deception, self-corruption and the agonizing question of "What price survival?" The cast is exemplary, and Jon De Vries as the tormented Keseberg sculptures a portrait of hell in ice. Toward the end, Polsky resorts to melodramatic devices that break the play's stark tension, but he is a welcome addition to the select company of playwriting naturals...
...former or his rapturous cigarette smoking in the latter? Olivier is such a sly devil that he could make his Oscar acceptance speech, a riotous stream of sheer poppycock, sound as though it were a Shakespearean soliloquy. As TV audiences saw, it was enough to addle Fellow Oscar Winner Jon Voight's brain for the rest of the night...
...chance to get decent seats at this late hour.Above left, Otto Schenk's naturalistic staging of the Pilgrim's Chorus from Act I of "Tannhauser." Below right, BEVERLY SILLS in "Don Pasquale." Below, TERESA STRATAS in "The Bartered Bride." Opposite page, from top to bottom: RICHARD CASSILLY as Tannhauser, JON VICKERS as Otello, and SHERRILL MILNES as Iago...