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...what he has described as a coda to his seven-hour Pulitzer-prizewinning epic Angels in America, playwright Tony Kushner has written a little one-act vaudeville called Slavs!, fuzzily subtitled Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness. In 80 wordy minutes, Kushner scampers through seven years in the collapse of Russian communism (the second half of Angels, remember, was called Perestroika) and bounces from the Kremlin to a fantastic archive housing the bottled brains of dead party leaders to a Siberia-like heaven. His final line asks, as Lenin did, "What is to be done?" Audiences...
...Absence, Douglas Turner Ward's one-act play of 1965, a Southern town wakes up one morning to find that all its black people have disappeared. The result is so chaotic -- garbage piling up, houses left uncleaned, meals uncooked -- that the whites plead for the blacks to come back. Thirty years later, racial satire has taken a bleaker turn. In Space Traders -- one of three episodes of Cosmic Slop, an HBO anthology series from Reginald and Warrington Hudlin (who wrote and directed the film House Party) -- aliens arrive on earth with a modest proposal for the U.S. government...
...Cliburn watcher, therefore, could really have been surprised when the pianist failed to answer the bell for Round 2. The Rachmaninoff, which he says is his favorite concerto, is even more difficult than the Tchaikovsky. Cliburn calls it "a one-act opera in which the soloist sings all the roles...
...encounter Gus and Ben in the room where they remain throughout the one-act play. They are in a boarding house in Buckingham, England, waiting for their next "job." The way they are dressed in suit pants, their shirts untucked, their ties and coats laying around the room, they could be two travelling salesmen anywhere in the world. As the play continues we come to realize that they are not pedalling a good, but a service. And that service is killing. And we see them while they wait...
...one-act play of about an hour, Darlene focuses on the relationship between Sidney (Glenn Kessler) and Rose (Esme Howard), "New York's premier matchmakers." While Sidney and Rose do power lunches setting up their clients with one another, some of their strangest "success" stories parade in and out, complicating Sidney's plans for romance with Rose. With songs like "Just Friends" and "Can't We Be Friends" as background music, the play has a bit of a "When Harry Met Sally" feel, and Sidney's quest for love forms the backbone of the play...