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...that of directing. I’d done tech directing and costume design and various other jobs with shows, and the more familiar I got, the more I thought I’d really like to try putting together my own show. Ritchie’s directorial debut is Oscar Wilde’s play “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” which she discovered last year in an English class. I felt like I really understood the play, and it stimulated my imagination so much I knew I could do a good job with...
...Stars Two thirtysomethings in a conservative community act like “Little Children” in the aptly titled new film from writer/director Todd Field. A hit at the Toronto Film Festival and a surefire bet in this year’s Oscar race, this film is anything but childish. Kate Winslet stars as a desperate housewife, Sarah Pierce, who feels misunderstood by other stay-at-home moms, her husband, and even her daughter. One hot summer day at the playground, the moms fawn over the lone stay-at-home dad—Patrick Wilson, best known...
...This comes as no surprise, to be honest. We’re an old school; we like old things. Harvard’s founding predates many popular forms of entertainment—musical theater, for example, a comparatively modern genre that came of age with the 1927 production of Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern’s “Show Boat.”In a sense, musical theater has never left adolescence. Essential questions remain: is it a play with music? Is it merely verbose opera? Is it a revue with plot? The “modern?...
...DIED. Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Oscar-nominated Italian director; in Rome. A resistance leader in World War II, Pontecorvo's war experiences informed his 1965 masterwork The Battle of Algiers, which depicted the brutal reality of the 1950s Algerian uprising against French colonial rule. While the documentary-style film won three Oscar nominations and the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, French authorities-outraged by its depiction of torture by French troops-banned it until...
...Oscar Wilde’s plays take place in a parallel universe where everyone is witty and wit is everything. Mention Wilde’s name, and people are far more likely to respond with the recitation of a particularly pithy or clever line than with a summary of the plot of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” It is, accordingly, a world in which actors must carry much of the responsibility for the success or failure of a production, and the mostly superb acting in the current HRDC interpretation of “Lady...