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Instead of letting himself be remembered for his great comedy, Martin has taken on the tough project of writing a quasi-compendious retrospective of scientific and artistic thought since 1904. In Martin's debut as a playwright, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Albert Einstein (played by Thomas Derrah) shows up at the famous Montmartre bohemian artists' hang-out the Lapin Agile. While working out theorems and waiting for his date to show up, Einstein meets Picasso (Bill Camp) who stumbles in hoping to be noticed and admired. At first distant and confrontational, the two great minds turn their sparring into...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Sharing Cafe Au Lait With Two Great Intellects | 5/20/1994 | See Source »

...real reference to the fact that the self-absorbed, whiny couple featured in Dan Algrant's latest film, "Naked in New York," is a product of, you guessed it--Harvard University. Oh yes, the producer (Tony Curtis) also finds an opportunity to ask why Jake (Eric Stoltz), the persecuted playwright, "has his ass in Cambridge instead of my office!" Poor Harvard is suffering a two-pronged movie attack from former student Alek Keshishian '83's latest depiction in "With Honors," and now from this movie...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: "Naked in New York" Clothes Bland Fare in Faux Zaniness | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

...side of the stage and her announcer in a booth opposite. These lewd stakes are raised still higher with Diane D'Aquila's opening monologue at her computer as she writes pornography to support her two children. The play begins, at such a pitch that one wonders how playwright Paula Vogel will pull...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Throbbing, Fantastic But Flaccid | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

Virginia Woolf playwright wins a remarkable third Pulitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Apr. 25, 1994 | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...legacy of suffering that did not end with World War Two, but has continued to haunt the European psyche for decades. The broader public has left these questions behind, though, and in many ways the rediscovery of Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" now serves only as retrospective on the recently deceased playwright, rather than a powerful psychological exploration which resonates with modern as well as war-scarred audiences...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Rhino Stumbles Under Own Weight | 4/21/1994 | See Source »

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