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Those too shy to approach a potentially special someone in the art-history aisle needn't worry though. Superstores increasingly play host to organized social events aimed at enticing lovelorn customers. Singles nights are a staple at many Barnes & Noble stores; the functions may feature a lecture by a romance-novel author or a relationship counselor. Some stores offer chess matches, Scrabble and backgammon games, as well as reading groups and open-mike nights for new poets in search of an audience. Borders stores even feature live bands...
Mike Efron plays Tanner, the lovelorn cyborg who knows too much. His scenes with Elaine are particularly funny. Weiner has a real talent for parodying the strained relationship between the sexes...
...metal panels that bang like thunder and tumble away at key moments, is effective but excessive, a tacit confession of shaky faith in the power of the play's words. That doubt is foolish. Medea is the greatest role ever written for a woman, fiercer than Lady Macbeth, more lovelorn than Phedre. Despite Rigg's shortcomings as Euripides' virago, the role makes her the odds-on contender to join Caldwell and Judith Anderson, who played the part on Broadway in 1948, as winners of a Tony Award for Best Actress...
...Hispanic. Little did we know what we had wrought. As onlookers watched the image of our new Eve begin to appear on the computer screen, several staff members promptly fell in love. Said one: "It really breaks my heart that she doesn't exist." We sympathize with our lovelorn colleagues, but even technology has its limits. This is a love that must forever remain unrequited...
Teen Lust and Stopped Clocks. A fastpaced comedy about suburban high school drug culture and the 1986 Challenger explosion. Set in Concord, NH, the hometown of schoolteacher/astronaut Christa McAuliffe, the play focuses on the awkwardly traumatic lives of Kurt, a dyslectic pot dealer; Dennis, a lovelorn ice cream scooper; and Wanda, a leukemia-stricken cheerleader. Loeb EX, 7:30 p.m. Free. 19 November Friday...