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...Texas. The irony is quickly apparent: the several women and one man who spend their time in the five and ten in McCarthy, Texas, are spiritual midgets, made small by life and their own tediously limited ambitions. But there is a double irony, invisible perhaps to those onstage: Playwright Ed Graczyk and Director Robert Altaian can also be counted among the Lilliputians, and it would take the talents of a logician to determine who should get the greater blame for this misguided effort...
Several things are wrong with this evening of one-acters: it is too long (more than four hours with intermissions); it is often inconsistent; and for embarrassingly long periods it becomes as mawkish as an afternoon soap opera. But what is right about it is absolutely right. Playwright Harvey Fierstein has created characters so vivid and real that they linger in the mind, talking the night away, long after the lights have been turned out and everyone has left off-Broadway's Actors Playhouse...
...famous beauty, an even more celebrated playwright, a magazine editor, an actress. She was the wife of Henry R. Luce, co-founder of Time Inc. She had been a Congresswoman and was on her way to becoming an Ambassador. It was small wonder that when 18-year-old Wilfrid Sheed met her he was awestruck. Her intimidating husband, the novelist-critic recalls, "summed me up with brutal accuracy as someone he didn't have much to learn from, certainly not enough to crank up his famous stammer for." But Clare Boothe Luce was something else. At 46, she remained...
...that new little country on the other side of the Atlantic. It had proven its might in the Spanish-American War and was well on the way to becoming a major world power. To this setting of jingoism and unbridled national pride came George M. Cohan, singer, dancer, and playwright, with more than a touch of the patriotic. Little Johnny Jones, his 1904 musical celebrating the expansive American spirit might find audiences as appreciative today as 80 years ago with the occasion of its revival at the Goodspeed Opera House...
...part of Frances' fictionalized friend Harry York is taken by another part-time movie star, Playwright Sam Shepard, who "picked this movie because it's like a Greek tragedy." But one with a happy ending. Now the stardom that Frances Farmer never quite achieved in her prime is likely to be hers a dozen years after her death...