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...Ivanov. Yeremin may want his actors to fade like tiny points of light into the world around them, but Chekov's text is meant to act as a magnifying glass, to make the world of social conventions and thinly veiled subtexts appear larger than life. Chekov is the great playwright of the strained relationships humans have with themselves and with one another; looking in Chekov for the larger metaphysical themes of man in landscape that Yeremin's visuals try to evoke is a lost cause. Yes, Ivanov is about loneliness and isolation, but not the loneliness and isolation of standing...
...First Lady's brief address to the crowd of about 100 invited guests did not touch on political issues. She fielded no questions from members of the news media, focusing instead on her appreciation for noted author, playwright and screenwriter David Mamet's new children's book, Henrietta...
...fundraiser is a launch of David Mamet's new children's book Henrietta, about a pig that applies to Harvard Law School. Mamet, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated author and playwright, will read portions of the book...
...foreword to the published script of The Rainmaker, playwright N. Richard Nash advises, "It must never be forgotten that it is a romance, never for an instant by the director, the actors, the scenic designer or the least-sung usher in the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia." I can't vouch for the ushers at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City, who are no less surly than usual, but mostly this Broadway revival gets into the right spirit. The set, a swath of brown prairie dominated by an expanse of blue sky, seems ready at any moment to disgorge...
Written by Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton in the early 17th century, Women Beware Women might seem at risk of being somewhat out-of-date: the tricky iambic pentameter of the dialogue and rather archaic betrothal practices are more reminiscent of Shakespearean times than they are of modern day America. However, the production is at times so wicked, so sensationalist (think lots of incest and death), that the audience can't help but be captivated. Whether it be the orgy at the end of the first act or the well-choreographed (but comedic) swordplay that results in death and still more...