Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate, contrariwise, is generally reputed to be one of the all-time greats. Josh Rubins, the director, collaborated on a successful show of his own last year. Opens tonight at 8 at the Loeb; this weekend and next...
...represents some of the best America that we can remember -a rugged liberalism long before it was gilded with chic, the common man invested with intellect. In a nation of somewhat disheveled justice, Darrow did genuinely unpopular things as a lawyer from 1878 to 1938. He saved Leopold and Loeb from the death penalty, defended blacks against rape charges, kept the lynch mobs from the Haymarket "conspirators." He was an honest and useful...
...only play playing around Harvard this weekend is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, at the Loeb--it's getting a good production, by all accounts, so if you like Restoration comedy (there's no accounting for tastes) it's probably all right. Which is probably more than you can say for some of the other things around...Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities is mostly just incomprehensible (369 Performance Center, near Union Square in Somerville), Changes is evidently mostly just improvisatory (Theater Two, near Kendall Square), and vacation is evidently, mercifully, unbelievably, mostly just imminent, and high...
Given the limiting circumstances, the Loeb production of The Rivals is unusually good--it may go slowly for a few moments, but it will provide an evening of light entertainment. If Sheridan didn't have a terribly good sense of pace, he did have a sense of humor, and The Harvard Dramatic Club will make certain in these hard times that you don't forget how to laugh...
...Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is the play that introduced Mrs. Malaprop and herisms to the world. It's getting a Mainstage production with a professional director, Norman Ayrton, so chances are that it should be good, I guess. The play itself is simply eleemosynary. Opens tonight at 8 at the Loeb...