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Driven by a commonly held belief in Shakespeare’s position as the greatest playwright of all time, the Project is unwavering in its conviction that, despite their mission to fundamentally change the way his plays are presented, the man’s work is eternally and transcendentally significant...
Wasserstein is survived by his current wife, Angela Chao, and his seven children, one of whom is the adopted child of his late sister, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who died of lymphoma...
...advantage, of course, of Jackman and Craig. Yes, you can be cynical about the two movie hunks who are drawing lines of autograph seekers outside the theater every night - as well as the producers smart enough to turn an obscure 2006 play by a little-known Chicago playwright into a box-office bonanza. But once the actors step onstage, all that dissipates. This is one star vehicle that should provide a good ride for plenty of non-star actors to come...
...Beck often cites Beale as an inspiration and a tribune for our own times. "I think that's the way people feel," he told an interviewer. "That's the way I feel" - like the fist-shaking, hair-pulling Beale. Whether channeled by a playwright on the left or a talk-show host on the right, anger and distrust can be dramatized and monetized. But do they ever really go anywhere...
...Movie buffs might appreciate this, because when Beck gets rolling on a particularly emotional riff, when the tears glisten and the shoulders shudder, Paddy Chayefsky, the great leftist playwright, looks like a prophet. He's the man who coined the phrase that, according to Luntz, is the rare thing Americans can agree on. He gave the line to Howard Beale, the mad anchorman at the center of the dark satire Network...