Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, the production is above the level of the usual Loeb Ex fare. Director Chris Harding has kept up a brisk, fast-talking pace that is well-suited to the play's 1940s flavor, and the production staff has worked wonders, considering the Ex's limited budget. The set for Brock's "$235-dollar-a-day" hotel suite comes complete with foliage, statuary, and Louis XIV furniture. And the costume crew seems to have had a ball decking out Billie in sequins, feathers, fake fur and silver lame...
...MISLED by the title of the current production at the Loeb. Too True To Be Good is no drawing room comedy, peppered with neat Shavian paradoxes and finished off with a neat Shavian conclusion. In fact, it's probably unlike any Shaw play you've ever seen. There are enough witticisms to keep the audience entertained--"I do not know how to live without my wife," says one character, "we were unhappy together for forty years"--but entertainment is not Shaw's principal concern. He denies them the familiar comfort of a traditional dramatic framework, and instead subjects them...
...True to Be Good is very fine Shaw, all the better because it's well-performed. Despite the epigrammatic title, it's less flippant than some of Shaw and definitely worth seeing in the generally excellent production by Canada's Shaw Festival group. At the Loeb through September...
...pending announcement. Correspondents from Los Angeles to Boston went into high gear, while from backyards and boats, beaches and in a few cases beds, some 45 researchers, reporters, copyreaders, production and layout specialists, photographers and editors headed for midtown Manhattan, many in blue jeans. Senior Editor Marshall Loeb had been asleep only a few hours when he was called in from Westchester to write the cover story. Reporter-Researcher Regina Cahill was about to leave for an antiques fair when she was summoned; Associate Editor Burton Pines had also planned to go to the fair. Operations Manager Eugene Coyle...
...wonder she can carry her own enthusiasm let alone Winnie's. Despite Hamlin's excellent job, the show is not all that exciting. 90-minute monologues, which is essentially what Beckett has to offer, are hard to make theatrically charging and this production at the Loeb does not meet the challenge The play has its comic moments, which director George Hamlin exploits to the hilt, but it is also awfully depressing--making it all the more painful to watch...