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PRELUDE TO A KISS. The best play yet in response to AIDS never mentions the word but asks whether love is really forever when the young, beautiful person you married is suddenly a dying old man. Writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene have an off-Broadway winner, on its way to Broadway, and Mary- Louise Parker is the most fetching dizball leading lady since Judy Holliday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 16, 1990 | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...Jack Ryan, Baldwin stands up to Soviet submaster Sean Connery in the toy-boat saga The Hunt for Red October, which opened this month to record-breaking business. In next month's Miami Blues, a mammothly entertaining rogue comedy, he is a psychotic but likable ex-con. This week, off-Broadway, he opens in Craig Lucas' deft and delectable romantic fantasy Prelude to a Kiss, playing a love-struck guy whose bride's personality is stolen on their wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alec Baldwin: The Hunk from Red October | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

JUAN DARIEN. A puppet musical? For adults? Unimaginable, perhaps -- but also spellbinding, in this richly mythic off-Broadway delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 8, 1990 | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

ROMANCE IN HARD TIMES. The libretto of this off-Broadway musical about the Depression is odd, but the score is one of the most memorable in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 8, 1990 | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

CLOSER THAN EVER. This musical sampler from lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. and composer David Shire is an off-Broadway charmer deftly performed. Special joys: character songs that actors Brent Barrett and Sally Mayes render as richly nuanced as one-act plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 27, 1989 | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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