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...older brother, James A. Carmichael ’01; Tom Stoppard, the playwright; Bill Waterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes; and Wayne Thiebaud, the painter...
DIED. PAUL ZINDEL, 66, chemistry teacher turned playwright who won a Pulitzer Prize for his semiautobiographical 1970 play, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the story of two siblings with an abusive mother; of cancer; in New York City...
...Life X 3" (at the Circle in the Square) has quite a bit more to offer. This new comedy-drama comes from Yasmina Reza, the French playwright responsible for "Art", the surprise hit about three friends who have a falling out over a painting. "Life X 3" is a chewier play than "Art", and I was rooting hard for it. But in the end, it's a disappointment...
...rest of the play. In each the three variations, Reza skips the key scene in which the couples discover the mistake; she jumps straight to later in the evening, when they're scarfing down cheese snacks. (What, no takeout restaurants in Paris?) You only have to imagine what a playwright like Alan Ayckbourn - or even Neil Simon, in his better days - could have done with the same device, to get impatient with "Life X 3" long before the guests file out for the last time...
MARISOL. Puerto Rican-born American playwright Jose Rivera’s 1993 Obie-Award winning play comes to the Loeb Experimental Theatre this weekend, under the direction of Rebecca R. Kastleman ’05. In Rivera’s beautiful, surrealistic play, the young woman Marisol confronts the dejection and dereliction of New York City’s post-apocalyptic streets, while the city’s guardian angels rebel against a complacent and dying God. Kastleman’s surrealistic production promises to explore the love between friends in the the city’s back alleys...