Word: off-broadway
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...overdone bit parts, Whoppi Goldberg fulfils the rather insignificant role of Jake's mother's quirky side-kick, as well as popping up successively as a hard-hat construction worker, a marching band conductor on an interstate, and the mask of comedy in the stone-work of an off-Broadway theater. Kathleen Turner appears as a over-sexed soap-opera star who, in spite of her potentially exciting role as temptress, never makes her presence felt. Timothy Dalton is, however, somewhat elegant in his suave portrayal of the wheeler-dealer gallery owner, though his supposedly strong feelings for Joanne have...
...York City or Los Angeles, Fraser's deft and epigrammatic work about a romance between a gay man and a straight, married one would not seem startling. Indeed, his equally raw Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love played off-Broadway for months in 1991. But as the crusaders of the culture wars point out, there is more to America than its coastal metropolises. In Cincinnati, where Oh! Calcutta! was shut down briefly in 1974, where a museum was prosecuted in 1990 for displaying the late Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, and where an antigay ordinance was enacted last...
...off-Broadway Triumph, however, makes the case. Its heroine, a princess disguised as a man, seeks the hand of a prince from a deposed rival family. To get her way, she bullies servants and promises to marry the prince's unworldly guardians -- an austere philosopher who spots her true gender and his matronly sister, who doesn't. The production is vividly pretty. What makes it work, though, is its edge, sharper than Shakespeare's in similar plots -- especially when the bamboozled guardians realize they have been cast aside and stare with shame and despair into a slowly fading light...
...Grammy with John Lennon for their album Double Fantasy, and in 1989 the Whitney Museum mounted a retrospective of her conceptual art -- her creative endeavors are overshadowed by her status as Lennon's widow. Ono seems reconciled to that reality. Indeed, she embraces it in New York Rock, an off-Broadway musical about coming to terms with the death of a loved...
...readings at a lectern. Sometimes the performer impersonated the author with costume and makeup, as Hal Holbrook did in evoking Mark Twain. Sometimes an actor merely read passages stirringly, as Eileen Atkins did for Virginia Woolf. Worth is now doing the same for Wharton; she just ended an entrancing off-Broadway run and has upcoming dates in Princeton, New Jersey, and at London's Royal National Theatre. "I am not remotely taking on Wharton's persona," Worth says. "I never met her. I don't know what her voice was like. I am giving feeling to her words. After having...