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...Wilde responded by setting in motion a libel suit that would eventually lead to his own conviction for sodomy, then imprisonment and loss of public appreciation of his art. Gross Indecency recreates the trial that shook the creative world, drawing from a number of accounts, including Wilde's lover Lord Alfred Douglas, George Bernard Shaw and Wilde's riotous testimony during the trial itself. Wilde crafts a new work out of his performance at the trial, from the complementary elements of his dramatic sense and homosexuality, of course ending in tragedy different from anything Wilde ever committed to paper...
...Kate's sister Bianca and one for everyone else. This should be the perfect environment for the repartee between Kate and Petruchio, in the Shakespearean play that just might qualify for the record of most insults per square inch. But with lines like, "Thy husband is thy life, thy lord, thy keeper" in the conclusion, the director has some explaining to do to a modern audience. This production takes the approach that the play is more of a love story than a polemic on submission to one's husband. The show will also use movement and music to drive...
...very capable Lieberman has a lot going for him. But he'd best take heed of an old saying: "Too much 'Praise the Lord' and even the priest gets tired of it." LESTER DOULIS Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...pretty funny (and the audience was packed with partisan laughers). He told a joke about the guy in church who keeps calling out during services, "Use me, Lord, use me," whereupon the preacher sets the man to work scraping and painting the pews. Next Sunday, the man cries out from the congregation, "Use me, Lord - but only in an advisory capacity...
...provoked the Supreme Court ban on student-led prayers last June. Response to the campaign has been mixed: some residents are eager to push the limits of the decision, but others resent agenda-minded outsiders who invite tens of thousands of people to attend home games and recite the Lord's Prayer. In Asheville, N.C., the group We Still Pray, led by pastor Ralph Sexton, filled a football stadium with 12,000 supporters at a rally last month to protest the Supreme Court ruling. The group is also circulating petitions to rewrite the U.S. Constitution...