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Howe has always had an ear for plausible conversation and a keen eye for the elegiac beauty of the everyday. Blending them with the subtly magical in Approaching Zanzibar at last relieves her work of a seeming pettiness and dullness. In the production that opened off-Broadway last week, she is aided by a superb cast, including Jane Alexander and Harris Yulin as the parents and Bethel Leslie as the dying aunt -- all established stars who delicately avoid star turns -- and the exceptional Clayton Barclay Jones and Angela Goethals as the children. Heidi Landesman's brilliantly simple sets fill...
...this sounds like the umpteenth rewrite of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the best defense Brian Friel might offer for his superb play, now off-Broadway, is that his characters seem Chekhovian only because they are so candid and self-aware. Kaiulani Lee is the older sister who sacrificed by staying home to tend to her father, Haviland Morris the sister who opted to marry for money, Margaret Colin the one who drowned herself in the Molotov cocktail of alcohol laced with utter honesty. John Pankow excels as the village lad who romanced each girl in turn, settled...
AMULETS AGAINST THE DRAGON FORCES. Paul Zindel's off-Broadway play about a self-destructive alcoholic and a neurotic but winsome adolescent is superbly played, and its melodramatic excess sings like pure truth...
...MEMBER OF THE WEDDING. Esther Rolle (Good Times) and Amelia Campbell glow as nanny and budding adolescent in this moving off-Broadway revival of Carson McCullers' coming-of-age story of the pre-civil rights South...
Movies are show; plays are tell. Here's one difference. In Beth Henley's 1984 off-Broadway hit The Miss Firecracker Contest, a seamstress named Popeye Jackson explained that as a child she "used to make little outfits for the bullfrogs that lived out around our yard." In this expansive adaptation, Popeye (Alfre Woodard) displays one such frog, cunningly coutured in a nurse's gown with matching stethoscope. Ah, the glamorous realism of the cinema! It's cute...