Word: lebow
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Grace Lebow, co-director of Aging Network Services in Bethesda, Md., says requests for long-distance geriatric-care managers have tripled since Sept. 11: "Older clients have depended on their kids' coming in from long distances to check on them from time to time. Now people aren't traveling." Lebow has a 94-year-old client who says she is not sleeping well and feels more depressed, knowing that her family won't get to her for the holidays. She wonders if she will ever see them again...
...American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) was merely playing host, but the well dressed, older crowd was able to chat with familiar faces from the A.R.T., including Resident Dramaturg Gideon Lester and company members Karen MacDonald and Will LeBow, who were performing in the benefit. Volunteers from PEN New England, largely young writers, were eager to press wine into the hands of those who came early for food and social hour. Rialto Restaurant of the Charles Hotel provided dessert fare, and the brownies, delicious confections which dissolved in the mouth like so much nutty, brown sugary goo, must have given the older...
...final piece of the evening was “Boys” by Rick Moody. The short story explores the changing lives of maturing children with a narrative style perhaps closer to poetry than prose. LeBow, who played the father last year in the A.R.T.’s world premiere of Adam Rapp’s Nocturne, lent his rich voice to a blunt delivery that gave the comic and dramatic moments of the story equal power. The story is too short and well crafted to ruin with synopsis, but it reveals the humanity of the sort of rambunctious...
Humor can oft be a palliative for grief, and the show brought plenty of laughter. “The Pat and Jerry Show,” with Richard Snee and Will LeBow, satirized an infamous conversation between television evangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, who blamed the terrorist attacks on the American Civil Liberties Union and the pro-gay and pro-choice movements. Although questionably tasteful at best, the skit and song elicited laughter from the audience. In some ways, taking it to such extremes helped to deal calmly with the irrational prejudices that have emerged since the attack; outrage...
...Blues for New York City,” by Will LeBow, which was described as, “with thanks and apologies to B.B. King,” traveled the path of sadness and recovery. Sorrowful yet magestic, the piece celebrated the memory of the city before the event and suggested a future equally bright...