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...companions that the waiter hates her, and a few moments later, he does indeed turn and say, deadpan, "I hate you." At South Coast Repertory's handsome stage, the show had a visual sleekness that it somewhat lacks in the more rudimentary facilities of the New York City producer, Playwrights Horizons. But the elegance of the storytelling survives and reflects more than two years of collaborative work put into it by Playwright Craig Lucas, Composer Craig Carnelia, Director Norman Rene and the hugely likable cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three for A Two-Way Exchange | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...WRITING such two-dimensional comedies as California Suite and Chapter Two, Neil Simon forever distinguished himself as perhaps the most mediocre playwright to ever have a Broadway theatre named...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Suite Dreams | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...Sergeant Phil Esterhaus opened each episode with its trademark roll call) to the 1985 departure of Steven Bochco, the show's co- creator, fired after reported disputes over cost overruns. Yet new characters (like Dennis Franz's choleric Lieut. Buntz) and continued good scripts (including one this season by Playwright David Mamet) injected fresh life. "This one never went downhill," says NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff. "It's like a ballplayer: you want to see someone go out a winner, like Sandy Koufax, instead of dropping fly balls in left field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Hill Street, Hail and Farewell | 4/27/1987 | See Source »

...STOPPARD is an irreverent playwright, but the Dunster House production of two Stoppard farces almost expires beneath an overly-reverent treatment of the author's script...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: After Magritte and The Real Inspector Hound | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

Scrupulously following the action of Shakespeare's play, The Skinhead Hamlet nonetheless observes the aesthetic standards of its modern setting. Going far beyond the Bard's request for "brevity," playwright Richard Curtis has provided the most laconic dialogue in memory. Hamlet's famous--and, in a bad production, interminable--soliloquy is reduced here to eight words. In the economical vocabulary of Curtis' leather-clad characters, a particular unprintable word suggesting the sexual act makes up half the dialogue, to hilarious result...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: Bard-acious Comedy | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

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