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LOVE LETTERS. Colleen Dewhurst and Josef Sommer are this week's stars in the rotating off-Broadway cast of A.R. Gurney's deft, disarming tale of a half- century relationship lived out largely via pen and paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 2, 1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...LADY IN QUESTION. Just what is the pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 25, 1989 | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...LADY IN QUESTION. What is the alleged pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 18, 1989 | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

PRIVATES ON PARADE. War is hell, and so are high heels, as British forces in Malaysia learn while staging musicals in a campy off-Broadway delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 4, 1989 | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...plainly knew nothing about creating plays. Undaunted, Hwang succeeded beyond an undergraduate's wildest fantasy with his next try, F.O.B., a reflection on the immigrant experience. Just over a year after the show was staged in his college dorm, it was performed at New York City's pre-eminent off-Broadway showcase, Joseph Papp's Public Theater. That 1980 triumph and the six modestly successful plays that followed led to foundation grants, movie and TV script deals and enough theater productions to enable Hwang to shuttle between New York City and Los Angeles while supporting himself entirely by writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAVID HENRY HWANG: When East And West Collide | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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