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...Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde's marvelously farcical parody of Victorian love. At the Lyric Stage, 565 Boylston St., in Copley Square, through March 28. Performances Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees...
...offered playgoers a delectable comedy of sexual theatrics, Molnar's The Play's the Thing; Barrie's salute to the canny primacy of the female, What Every Woman Knows; and a world première of James Joyce's Dubliners steeped in Ireland's lyric grief. The level of performance has often been erratic, but the dramatic daring, like the digging, has been unfaltering...
Ghosts. Ibsen, about a woman haunted by ghosts from the past who invade and despoil her present and future. Due for a production at the Loeb this spring. At the Lyric Stage, 565 Boylston St., through February 8. Performances Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees...
...LIFE IN ENGLAND. [Olivier's wife, Actress Joan Plowright, is associated with a group called Lyric Theater. In a smash hit, The Bed Before Yesterday, she plays a middle-aged lady who discovers sex and loves it. My Joanie has just had such a marvelous success-I am so happy for her. Apart from acting, I love gardening, designing a garden, planting it, working in the earth. I find it sanity-provoking. I think I would have liked to have been a farmer. Earth and greasepaint are a very good...
...CONCERTO FOR CELLO (Lynn Harrell, cellist; London Symphony Orchestra; James Levine, conductor; RCA; $6.98). Its jubilant fire, four-seasons color and unstrained lyric impulse make this the finest cello concerto ever written. The fast-emerging Harrell recalls the heroic eloquence of the late Emanuel Feuermann, and the peripatetic Levine, soon to become music director of the Metropolitan Opera, offers a brilliant reminder that Dvořák wrote the work for orchestra as well as cello...