Word: loeb
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...WORDS, WORDS, words," one might moan, like Hamlet to Polonius, about George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance. Nearly three hours of Shavian dialogue, however diverting, is a formidable experience. That it's also a pleasant one at the Loeb is a tribute to the author and the production...
...play presents. He mischievously has Lord Summerhays comment, "Democracy reads well; but it doesn't act well, like some people's plays." Whether democracy can act well is left unanswered by the play. But that Misalliance can act well, despite its length and status, is ably demonstrated by the Loeb's production...
Works by Telemann, Schoenberg, and Mozart. Sanders Theater, Memorial Hall at 8:30 p.m. Tickets available at the Loeb Box Office, 64 Brattle St. (864-2630) or the Holyoke Center Ticket Office (495-2663), and at the door. Admission...
Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odet's telling account of one family's hopes and woes during the Depression, is finishing up its run at the Loeb. The script is really quite moving and the production is excellent. The show may even help you relate to your parents when they try to tell you how tough they had it during the 30s; if you can match Odets's level of sympathy, you're off to a good start. Morris Carnovsky, who recreates his role from the original 1935 production, is not to be missed. But you better catch him fast because...
...problem continued to nag him. A year ago he tried out a new version at Stage West in West Springfield, Massachusetts, in which he mixed together parts of both third acts. I didn't see this production; but when the Theatre Company of Boston did the play at the Loeb Theatre two months ago, director David Wheeler did a bit of mixing of his own, and also substituted a single intermission just before the big confrontation instead of preserving the two in the text...