Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nichols and Pontero's Town Full of Heroes features comedic chaos with sports, sex, swords, satellites and psychotherapy. In other words, it's about modern life, and it's set in a modern home during the 1984 Olympics. Two women and five men star in this parody of the hectic 1980s, which runs through next weekend...
ANDY WARHOL: A RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The first comprehensive look since the artist's 1987 death at what made him the top of the pops. Through...
Japan, once the world's enemy, now its envy. A ruler once a god, in fact a slight, shy man fond of jellyfish but devoted to imperial duty. The interment of Emperor Showa, called Hirohito in his lifetime, bringing together admirers of Japan's modern ascent with the rites of a hallowed but controversial past. The burial too of an era that will lay to rest a history of barbaric militarism and shattering defeat, freeing Japan to move into a new age of unapologetic economic supremacy. All in all, it was as haunting and impressive a funeral as the century...
Lanford Wilson's Home Free continues its first of two weekend performances tonight in the Adams House Kronauer Space. Home Free, which stars one man and one woman, "related in every way possible," should be an innovative and intensive look at tragedy in the modern world. Tickets are $3 each...
...evening of Irish music, poetry and song" with Liam Clancy of the Clancy Brothers. Accompaying Clancy will be four Irish musicians, Geraldine Dunne, Paul Grant, Thomas Keane and Martin Murray, in a celebration of Irish ballads and poetry. The songwriter will perform traditional folk tunes as well as more modern ones with the company, who will play instruments ranging from fiddle and mandolin to the flute, harp and pipe...