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...bristle at the critical drubbing their shows usually get. Miller, 46, a Milwaukee native, started out as an assistant to director Billy Wilder, then wrote episodes for The Odd Couple and The Brady Bunch. Boyett, also 46, grew up in Atlanta, moved to New York City to become a playwright and wound up as a program executive at ABC. They met when Miller was co-producing one of ABC's big hits of the '70s, Happy Days. Boyett later joined Miller (and his then partner Edward Milkis) to produce such shows as Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy and Bosom Buddies. "What...
...SPEED OF DARKNESS. Playwright Steve Tesich brings together two former Army buddies and trash-haulage partners in this haunting Broadway production, one (Stephen Lang) now scruffy and homeless, the other (Len Cariou) now South Dakota's man of the year. Ironically, the dropout is at peace; the man who suppressed his dark secrets to fit in exists on the knife edge of anger...
While a Harvard undergraduate, Timothy Mayer '66 overhauled Aeschylus' Eumenides, the last part of the Greek playwright's Oresteia trilogy. The result is a sophisticated, irreverent interpretation called Red Eye. Last weekend at the Agassiz Theater, Orestes' flight from the furies and trial in the Athenian court underwent futher revision in director Patrick Tan's ambitions adaptation of Mayer's play...
Simon is commercially the most successful playwright in history (Shakespeare unluckily predated royalties); Lost in Yonkers debuted with advance sales of $2.3 million. Rather than rely on formulas, Simon uses success to keep testing audiences and himself. At the heart of this new play is what social workers call a dysfunctional family: a mother who was physically and psychologically abusive and four middle-aged children who still suffer the weaknesses she inflicted in teaching them to be strong. In many plays, hardened grandmothers conceal a cuddly core. Inside this woman is an iceberg, distant and adrift. When the retarded daughter...
...still hold their own among sound bites and photo ops. Worst of all, the book's subject -- the lives of ordinary Czechoslovak citizens under the unpredictable pressures of Soviet occupation -- is already, given the torrential crush of current events, an outdated story. The tanks are long gone, and a playwright serves as the elected President of Czechoslovakia. Now what...