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LONGTIME COMPANION Directed by Norman Rene; Screenplay by Craig Lucas
Still, you should listen up about Longtime Companion. For it is a splendidly bitchy comedy, The Women crossed with The Big Chill. Also a soap opera, a horror movie and a how-to manual on coping with catastrophe. On a small budget, writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene (who...
"What do you think happens when we die?" "We get to have sex again." Lucas and Rene know AIDS is not God's punishment for having sex, and their film is not afraid to show gay men being randily affectionate toward one another. But Longtime Companion represents no special pleading...
Which is a good deal more than some of the other flat-voiced performers can claim. Notably wooden are Vanessa Parise as Maggie--she painfully distracts in "At the Ballet"--and John Weinstein as Al, the insipid husband of another dancer, Kristine. And though Brandon Lucas can sing, his casting...
PRELUDE TO A KISS. The best play yet in response to AIDS never mentions the word but asks whether love is really forever when the young, beautiful person you married is suddenly a dying old man. Writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene have an off-Broadway winner, on its...