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WHEN A CRITIC AND FELLOW tippler suggested to Tennessee Williams that he | might be a better playwright if he stayed off the sauce, Williams patted his companion's forearm and with a satisfied smile challenged, "Improve A Streetcar Named Desire." The discussion stopped right there. The years since its debut in 1947 have only intensified the relevance of Streetcar's vision of sexual passion as a force so powerful that the principal characters must all lie to themselves about it. But if Streetcar emphatically belongs back on Broadway, it deserves far better than this starry but mostly wan and torpid...
...Tony for Nicholas Nickleby, as a British aristocrat turned Southern California hustler; TV stars Nancy Marchand of Lou Grant, double-cast as his London mother and his Los Angeles boss, and Jean Smart of Designing Women, as both of his abused wives. What a pity that promising playwright Jon Robin Baitz, 30, who in THE END OF THE DAY parallels Old World and New World corruption from charity medical wards to drug dealing to corporate raiding, can't stitch together a coherent narrative. His common but fatal mistakes: portraying all capitalists as repugnantly the same without making any of them...
...biggest surprise came when the award for drama was announced: The Kentucky Cycle, a six-hour historical saga by the relatively unknown playwright Robert Schenkkan -- and the first play to win a Pulitzer without ever having been produced in New York City. His epic, which spans 200 years of American history as experienced by three eastern Kentucky families, premiered in Seattle last June and completed a six-week run in Los Angeles last month...
Finley has gained recognition over the pastdecade as a performance artist, playwright,sculptor and painter. In some of her performances,she spreads food over the her naked body as a wayof addressing issues such as violence againstwomen, AIDS and homophobia...
Through Gardner's witty alter ego, Shalhoub, the playwright evokes a more innocent -- and more malignant -- era, flavoring the immigrant struggle with the sour salt of Jewish proverbs: "Sleep faster, we need the pillow." Eddie sometimes goes on so long the play could be retitled Monologues with My Children. But there is not a weak spot in the large cast, sensitively directed by Daniel Sullivan. Margulies is a geriatric standout, and Hirsch gives the most uncompromising and indelible performance of his career. Producers are always searching for actor-proof roles. Here is something rarer: role-proof actors...