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...Danny Kaye: "You get to the top and just before you start down you know that that is the very top of where you are going." Comic Actor Kaye, 71, shared the pinnacle moment last week in Washington with Singer Lena Home, 67, Opera Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, 73, Playwright Arthur Miller, 69, and Violinist Isaac Stern, 64. The quintet were receiving this year's Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the arts. They join a select company of only 30 other recipients...
...furor, if you remember, centered on the playwright's objection--based on third-hand reports--to the ART's change of locale from a bare room to a subway tunnel, the use of incidental music by Philip Glass, the large puddle at stage center, and what Beckett's agent called the purposeful casting of Black actors in two of the play's four roles...
...Endgame" opened on schedule at the Loeb Wenesday despite threats of legal action by the Nobel Prize winning playwright and his publisher, Barney Rosset of the Grove Press. Beckett and Rossett objected to ART's set, its use of incidental music by Philip Glass and its use of Black actors...
While Akalaitis called Beckett "the bottom line" in drama and "the greatest living playwright," she said she was no longer "attracted" to his work...
Like most dreams, Romance Language builds up its head of hallucinatory steam only when the night is half over. But at full throttle, Playwright Parnell's mixture of historical figures and fanciful situations makes a genial noise. This is the land of vaudeville revisionism previously charted by Indians, Travesties and Cloud 9, where social satire speaks in the vocabulary of dreams-the mind's own romance language. It is a pleasure to see Cynthia Harris (Charlotte), Valerie Mahaffey (Emily) and the 19 other cast members cavort so merrily on the tabletop stage of Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons...