Word: poignant
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Through the Ivory Gate flows well, painting a poignant picture of the life of a young woman who is learning to deal with life's surprises. Virginia learns that her college boyfriend Clayton is gay and comes finally to acknowledge his acceptance of his identity...
...Opera doesn't reject me. The real world does," laments one of the characters in Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata. This rather pathetic but poignant observation marks the sadness at the core of this funny play, now in production at the The New Repertory Theatre...
...WHEN THE GREAT WHITE Way glittered the brightest, it would have been an exceptional week that brought the openings of fiercely funny and trenchantly topical plays by three of the nation's leading dramatists. But if the theater seemed reborn with relevance last week -- thanks to Larry Kramer's poignant gay Bildungsroman, The Destiny of Me, David Mamet's lapel-grabbing vision of political correctness cum intellectual terrorism in Oleanna and Wendy Wasserstein's drawing-room comedy with claws, The Sisters Rosensweig -- Broadway was not part of the buzz. For reasons ranging from finances to the tyranny of reviews...
...John Updike, who has served under three New Yorker managements, contributes 'Playing with Dynamite,' a poignant tale of aging in the '90s. Its last six words might describe the current situation at the New Yorker: '. . . between chaos and an airier pantheon.' It is too early for a prediction, but I'd bet pantheon...
...pretension threaten to do in the evening. Ultimately, though, Sir Andrew's lush, melodic theater music seduces. From Jesus Christ Superstar to The Phantom of the Opera, all the hits are here. A virtuoso company of 14 makes even the most familiar songs seem fresh (Laurie Beechman's poignant Memory is a knockout), and star Michael Crawford (the original Phantom) performs with dazzling bravura...