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TIME: JUNE 15, 10 P.M., PBS...
...part, Concerned Christians garneredconsiderable media attention with a candlelightvigil held on the Memorial Church steps. Only 16students turned out for the vigil, butHollywood-based Manifold Productions was on handto film it for a PBS documentary...
When it comes to new works, however, hardly a troupe in America has so rich a record. Denver has sent Quilters to Broadway, Hyde in Hollywood to American Playhouse on PBS, and Circe and Bravo and Veterans Day to London's West End, among others. At the moment, the troupe has four full-scale premieres on its stages, and next month brings staged readings of eight more...
Just a slice of life from the real world. Make that The Real World, MTV's new 13-week documentary series that puts a '90s spin on An American Family, PBS's 1973 cinema-verite chronicle of the troubled Loud family. The producers selected seven young New Yorkers (one a transplant from Alabama) ranging in age from 19 to 25, put them together in a furnished loft in SoHo and set the cameras rolling for three months. The idea was to keep a video diary of their interactions, altercations and (possibly) romantic entanglements -- to see, as the show puts...
...KEEP ROOTING FOR AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE. The PBS series is television's only regular outlet for serious, original works of American drama. Too often, however, what you get is windy trifles like Mrs. Cage. Adapted from a one-act play by Nancy Barr, it stars Anne Bancroft as a housewife who, without apparent reason, shoots a woman in a supermarket parking lot following a violent robbery, then confesses the crime to a police lieutenant, played by Hector Elizondo. The drama consists almost entirely of a long, rambling, needlessly elusive dialogue in which the woman's motive is gradually revealed. Suffice...