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...Mainstage will present Blood Wedding by the Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, as well as Moliere's The School for Wives. G&S gives us The Gondoliers at the Aggasiz Theater, while the 139th annual Pudding show, Bye, Bye Verdi opens at the Hasty Pudding Theater...
...Another playwright Brustein would not touch with a 20-foot curtain rod is Clifford Odets, author of the Huntington's latest offering, Awake and Sing. Odets was one of the most prominent American playwrights of the 1930s, working with the Group Theater, the idealistic, left-wing venture that helped bring the modern theater to the United States. Odets first hit the big time with his Socialist one-act, Waiting for Lefty, which supposedly had audiences on their feet, yelling "Strike! Strike...
...this quirky storytelling device meant to lend intellectual gloss to an apparently slight tale? Is Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr., whose works (The Dining Room, The Perfect Party) are often short on incident but long on sly allusion and will-o'-the-wisp charm, once again slipping away from consummation of a plot? Beneath the winsome comedy, Gurney is playing with the Whitmanesque notion that each man contains multitudes. When the two Sues contemplate a nude sketch of the boy -- all that lingers from the maybe affair -- what they term "very good" is not just his lithe body or their rendering...
...interpretation of artwork is relative, playwright Tom Stoppard told a standing-room only crowd at the Science Center last night...
Kopit's central metaphor is that of the playwright as detective. Soon enough, Trent's curiosity defeats his hesitation. In a Philip Marlowe trenchcoat, Trent dutifully goes to Washington to search for clues. But the confusion only gets worse as he tries to discover the logic of nuclear policy, as well as why Stone has chosen him for the commission...