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...York City, two tense and touching works are running simultaneously: Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, a tirade at the supposed inaction of government, the press and even the potential victims, is off-Broadway at the Public Theater; William Hoffman's As Is, depicting one male couple's ordeal, opened last week on Broadway...
LAUGHING STOCK. At 54, Romulus Linney remains one of the American theater's mysteriously buried treasures. In this off-Broadway evening of three short plays, especially the masterly centerpiece F.M., Linney exhibited deft portraits of the half mad in which not a line was misplaced or wasted...
...writing. Whether anybody reads his stories, his job is writing them. I see my job as acting." But young Salinger hopes somebody comes to see him in Dancing in the End Zone, which just started rehearsals and will open in January. It will be his Broadway debut, following some off-Broadway and out-of-town stage work as well as a few bit parts in TV soaps. In End Zone, he landed one of the lead roles, playing James Bernard, a talented college quarterback who struggles to reconcile his personal conscience with the win-at-any-cost pressures...
Barbra Streisand's 1983 film adaptation of his short story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, produced a Hollywood extravaganza so removed from the original that he still finds the whole subject extremely painful. But that setback didn't dissuade Isaac Bashevis Singer, 80, from launching two new plays off-Broadway. A Play for the Devil is currently running in Yiddish at the Folksbiene Theater, and a dramatic adaptation of his story Shlemiel, the First just closed at the Jewish Repertory Theater. Singer, who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, has no illusions about the differences between drama...
...grateful for The Crimson's story about the American Repertory Theatre's 1984-5 season [Friday, October 26], but I must deny ever having made the statement attributed to me regarding how all of our productions go to Broadway or off-Broadway. It's inaccurate, first of all, and secondly it suggests a policy directly contrary to our philosophy and practice. Robert Brustein ART Artistic Director...