Word: kopit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, however, Louisville is on the upswing. Four of the seven shows at the just completed festival seem sure to have further life; one is among the freshest, funniest and most poignant works seen on any U.S. stage this season. Though the writers included Broadway stalwart Arthur Kopit, novelist Harry Crews and columnist William F. Buckley Jr., the best script, aptly for Louisville's tradition of discovery, came from regional-theater veteran Constance Congdon, whose works have never been produced in New York City...
...Kopit's Bone-the-Fish is a malicious and effective send-up of David Mamet's Broadway hit about Hollywood greed, Speed-the-Plow. Yet it has a vigor, and vinegar, of its own. Kopit's wry premise is to take the rhetorical excesses of ambition -- people saying they would slit their wrists, eat excrement or give up an intimate body part to achieve some goal -- and render them literally. His hustlers from the fringe of the movie business (Joseph Ragno and Bruce Adler) are more than a little crazy. Even crazier is the fact that their self- abasement might...
...year ago, Ken Howard was cozily encased in the arms of Diahann Carroll on the hit show "Dynasty." Currently, he plays the tormented Michael Trent, a playwright sifting through reams of nonsensical nuclear deterrence theories, in the ART's production of Arthur Kopit's "End of the World with Symposium to Follow...
...first work in the ART's series, The End of the World with Symposium to Follow by Arthur Kopit, was a recent Broadway flop inexplicably revived so that it could make an even more spectacular belly-flop here in Cambridge. Now Ronald Ribman, author of a number of underproduced plays, gets his chance to bore audiences with a work that is pretentious, muddily written, and as meaningful as a Spam commercial...
...context of Western history, instead of viewing it as some sort of aberration of modern politics. While dated even then by its nuclear freeze sentiments, Dead End Kids still made a good stab at some insight into the atomic age. With any luck, Akalaitis has already seen Kopit's play and is scouring her own work for similar flaws. If not Dead End Kids may end up as another worthy idea melted down by overheated artistic ambition...