Word: mosher
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This revival, staged by Gregory Mosher, director of the Lincoln Center Theater, cannot entirely recapture the liberating novelty that the first audiences found in Wilder's disdain for sets, props and other devices of illusion. But the production vividly evokes both his playful belittling of narrative and the irresistible appeal of his storytelling. Monologist Spalding Gray brings a feisty and brooding quality to the customarily benign stage manager: if his halfhearted attempts at a New Hampshire accent fail, the laughs he evokes are both frequent and authentic to the text. Film actors Eric Stoltz (Mask) and Penelope Ann Miller (Biloxi...
University spokesman Chris Mosher said that specifics of the search procedure could not be disclosed until after the formation of the special Board of Trustees committee. He also said that he could not estimate the amount of time needed to find Ryder's successor but added that the process would be completed as quickly as possible...
...important and imperative that we find a successor for Mr. Ryder. [The search] is definitely something that is a priority for the university," Mosher said...
Ryder is well respected by the members of the faculty and staff, according to Mosher. "He is one of the most outstanding presidents in America," Mosher said...
That led to two multi-hour auditions and, later, what Mosher calls "small but significant rewrites during rehearsal" to accommodate the part to her. Adds Mosher: "Madonna brings a backbone of steel. Mamet made the character, rather than a poor soul who is battered to the ground, someone about whom there is an element of doubt." Indeed, the play's pivotal question is the true nature of her role, the smallest of the three but the engine of the plot. Says Mosher: "The audience is meant to go out asking one another: Is she an angel? Is she a whore...