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From the age of 13, he devoted himself to theater--beginning at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey, where he would go after school to play any part they would give a kid. McCarter, he says, became his family. He had lost the security of his real family: his parents divorced when he was three and his brother Ben a year younger. His father is the poet and literary scholar Franklin (F.D.) Reeve. His mother Barbara Pitney Lamb remarried, a stockbroker, Tristan Johnson, who was a kind and generous stepfather to Reeve and had four children from a previous...
Crimson reporter Jeremy L. McCarter was inadvertently left off a list of writers who contributed to Wednesday's report of the shooting in Harvard Square...
...Jeremy L. McCarter contributed to the reporting of this article...
...involving four plays, from False Admissions at Connecticut's Hartford Stage to The Triumph of Love at California's Berkeley Repertory. Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York, is now playing The Game of Love and Chance; a different translation of Triumph is running off- Broadway; and Princeton's McCarter troupe is rehearsing The Double Inconstancy, retranslated as Changes of Heart...
...stagings often emphasized the dark elements of his work. At the other extreme, some scholars saw only his fascination with Italian commedia dell'arte buffoonery. The premier Marivaux exponent Stephen Wadsworth, who directed his translation of Triumph at Berkeley and is staging his text of Changes of Heart at McCarter, thinks any successful production mingles both flavors: "Marivaux's plays all combine joy and ebullience with a savagely acute perception of how people operate. He wants to leave you on the horns of a dilemma. You cannot simply like his characters for what they are or simply dislike them...