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...skeptical of making the first two years of college as universal as high school. I don't know how universal a high school education actually is," said Jonathan R. Miller...
Memo to Jay Leno, David Letterman, Bill Maher and Dennis Miller: Watch your backs--a new political humorist has arrived on the scene who is funnier than you'll ever be. His name is Ward Connerly...
...National Theatre production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) has staged a hit revival of Edward Albee's masterpiece, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring Diana Rigg and David Suchet. Willie Loman is lugging his valises home once again in a National Theatre production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. And veteran director Peter Hall has imported Jessica Lange to play Blanche Dubois (a role she played on Broadway in 1992) and surrounded her with a British cast in a new production of Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire...
...some Anglophiles, they find the work superior to much of what British theater is turning out these days. "The Americans offer us something we don't get in contemporary British plays," says David Thacker, director of the National's Death of a Salesman and a longtime champion of Arthur Miller's work. "They are very emotionally powerful plays--they reach the heart as well as the head. They are psychologically profound and truthful. And the best are strong on narrative. We'd have to look back to Shakespeare to see drama at that level...
Willy Loman, Miller's famously doomed salesman, is also brought down to size a bit on the British stage. In the National's Death of a Salesman, Willy is played by Alun Armstrong (a veteran of musicals like Les Miserables as well as the original cast of Nicholas Nickleby), whose tidy little mustache, hangdog expression and Brooklyn accent anchor him firmly in the dreary everyday. Armstrong's Willy is a small man, too downtrodden even to rail with much conviction. It's an elegant production, the dominant stage image a tree in full blossom, with a broken trunk...