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Whatever the strengths of Timon, NAT is not remotely worthy of comparison with London's Royal National and Royal Shakespeare companies or Canada's Shaw and Stratford festivals. If Timon is a great leap forward, Randall's next vehicle, The Government Inspector, could be a big jump back. He plays the title role, a naif of 23 -- an age Randall reached half a century ago. The irrepressible farceur says with a mildly manic laugh, "I'd like to be acting every night of my life. That's why I formed this theater." His tone sobering, he adds, "In a noncommercial...
...NAT's audience seems to agree. Randall is the selling point to ticket buyers and potential sponsors. Executive producer Manny Kladitis concedes, "I don't know how long we could survive without him," in tones that suggest the likely duration would be a day and a half. While season subscribers have fallen from 27,000 the opening year to about 18,000 today, that is competitive with the 23,000 for the much older Roundabout, a nonprofit Broadway company that favors more contemporary, commercial work...
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...Civil War-era South's treatment of Blacks when two springs ago Bridget A. Kerrigan '91 hung a Confederate flag in her window. The protests that ensued made national news, and in a book that ensued made national news, and in a book that appeared last summer syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff painted Kerrigan as a martyr of political correctness...
Insiders disagree on whether the shifting views are fostered by the A.C.L.U.'s in-house affirmative-action plan that requires the board, formerly dominated by white males, to be at least 50% female and 20% minority. Whatever the reason, old soldiers like Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and columnist Nat Hentoff, both onetime A.C.L.U. board members, see a serious threat to single-minded support of individual liberty. Dershowitz asserts that "the A.C.L.U. is a very different organization today." To him, the key tenet of the A.C.L.U. faith is support for free-speech rights for "causes that you despise." Without that...