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DIED. Sheldon Warren Cheney, 94, art historian and theater critic who helped define the modernist movement in American drama in the 1920s and '30s that was exemplified by such figures as Playwright Eugene O'Neill and Designer Robert Edmond Jones; of a stroke, in Berkeley, Calif. He founded Theatre Arts magazine in 1916 (it discontinued publication in 1964). His books include The New Movement in the Theater (1914), Expressionism in Art (1934) and The Story of Modern...
...bathos. One actor falls in: Roberts Blossom, whose Old Testament gaze and sucked-in gums make the American Gothic farmer seem as jolly as a game-show host. But most of the performers bring craft and conviction to their roles. Shepard is especially fine. This gifted young playwright, whose works show an inside knowledge of America's prodi gal sons, now threatens to become a movie star. His whip-thin body coils itself around a character. In this difficult, not altogether plausible part, he menaces and mesmerizes...
...POSSIBLE that no dramatist of similar stature could match the sexual activity of Frank Wedekind; it was characteristic of him that he would bring this personal obsession to the stage. "His greatest work," Brecht eulogized, "was his own personality." Wedekind was the first playwright of the polymorphous perverse, and his sexual emphasis and stylistic departures from photographic naturalism opened the door for Brecht, as well as all of the modern drama that followed. Somewhat simian in appearance, Wedekind was the Missing Link in German drama between the mad prodigy Georg Buchner and the Twentieth Century, the first one to come...
...fundamental idea behind Somewhere In Time is that true love can overcome any obstacle from social boundaries to the ultimate trump card, time itself. The film chronicles the supposedly magnificant obsession of one Richard Collier, a milk-fed Midwestern playwright marked for success by the gods for his overpowering goodness. Collier seems to come roaring out of the pages of Grit, but no matter, he is successful and stylish with a fancy glass office in Chicago, a foreign sports car and expensive clothes. And yet, he is not satisfied. He has broken up with his girlfriend, he needs...
EXPECTING. Jill Clayburgh, 36, actress best known for her portrayals of winsomely mature liberated women (An Unmarried Woman, Starting Over), and Playwright David Rabe, 40, (Streamers): their first child; next March. Clayburgh's first post-partum role: the part of a middle-aged woman who wants to have a baby, in a film named Expecting Miracles...