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...what of Congress, what of the release of his videotaped testimony, what of impeachment? "It's outside my authority," shrugged the President. Havel, meanwhile, showed his host an even better way to answer scandal questions. Asked if Clinton's misdeeds had had any effect on him, the absurdist playwright replied: "I congratulate Mr. McGwire and wish success to Mr. Sammy Sosa." Now that's how to get the hometown crowd on your side...
Poor Ayckbourn. The British playwright has turned out a string of increasingly dark, provocative comedies. Yet the few U.S. productions of his work tend to reinforce his outdated reputation as the British Neil Simon. Yes, Communicating Doors, now on display in a sprightly off-Broadway staging, is a relatively playful piece. A hooker (Mary-Louise Parker) gets called in to service an old geezer, who promptly confesses that he had his first two wives killed. She flees into a closet, doors spin, and we are transported to the same room 20 years earlier--then 20 years before that. The time...
...star is Crowley. He has joined the short list of masters in a fertile era for stage designers. Such wizards of pencil and paint as Tony Walton (Guys and Dolls), Robin Wagner (Crazy for You), John Napier (Cats) and Heidi Ettinger (The Secret Garden) create unique worlds from a playwright's words and a director's hopes. When you leave a show "humming the sets," these are the folks to thank for those sumptuous visual melodies...
Smith, a celebrated playwright, is founder and director of the institute, a three-year project focusing on artistic collaboration as a method for expanding civic dialogue...
Past Bunting Fellows have included playwright Anna Deavere Smith and former Vermont governor and ambassador Madeleine Kunin. The fellowships were first offered...