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Since its popular off-Broadway run in 1997, Eve Ensler’s poignantly tragic and humor-tinged series of monologues on female sexuality has become a mainstay on college campuses, and Harvard is no exception. Cohen claims her time on the Cantabrigian campus forced her to take notice of works like VM. Says Cohen, “Being at Harvard has made me think much more about issues about issues of gender...
Since its popular off-Broadway run in 1997, Eve Ensler’s poignantly tragic and humor-tinged series of monologues on female sexuality has become a mainstay on college campuses, and Harvard is no exception. Cohen claims her time on the Cantabrigian campus forced her to take notice of works like VM. Says Cohen, “Being at Harvard has made me think much more about issues about issues of gender...
...street-smart New York homicide detective Lennie Briscoe on NBC's Law & Order; of prostate cancer; in New York City. The son of a vaudevillian father and a radio-singer mother, Orbach played the narrator El Gallo in the original cast of the sweetly allegorical (and enormously long-running) off-Broadway musical fable The Fantasticks. Although he went on to star in several hits on Broadway (Promises, Promises; 42nd Street; Chicago) and at the box office (Dirty Dancing; Prince of the City), the Tony Award winner found a comfortable home as the replacement for Paul Sorvino in the third season...
...attacking the Bush-U.S. worldview, and the Blair-U.K. subsidiary role in it, a top priority. ?Guantanamo,? the documentary play about British citizens detained at the U.S. base in Cuba for years without being charged, has transferred from a successful run in London to New York?s off-Broadway. In a kind of Equity trade, the West End gets Tim Robbins? play ?Embedded,? after lengthy stints in Los Angeles and New York...
Such docu-plays aren't new. The Laramie Project (based on the Matthew Shepard killing), Anna Deavere Smith's monologues and Loose Lips, a satiric revue from the '90s, were all drawn from real-life words. But the form has lately been flexing its dramatic muscles. The Exonerated, an off-Broadway hit from 2002, fashioned a case against capital punishment by assembling interviews with former death-row inmates exonerated of their crimes. In The Permanent Way, a hit at London's National Theatre this winter, David Hare created what is likely to be the only good play ever written about...