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...Leverett House Arts Society production of Amadeus (directed by Grace Fan) effectively exploits this difficult but potent script, and presents an earnest reading of Shaffer's Salieri. Arthur Wu dominates the production with his impressive control of both voice and gesture, and makes the psychological portrait of Salieri's anguish convincing. Jessie Cohen plays an irrepressible and eminently likable Mozart, and the casting of a woman in the role of the composer-child emphasizes the youthful and effeminate side of the composer's character as Shaffer interprets...
Made in Managua offers a simple, contemporary account of a single American's brief encounter with the tumult of Central American politics. Maushard effectively provides us with an unpolished, but rewarding portrait of Nicaragua. Although his brief account is not particularly insightful, it paints a memorable picture of something most Americans will never know...
Although both Beuys and Warhol were members of an international artistic elite, their work drew from and commented on popular culture and ways of thinking. In works such as "Mr. Nobody," a sarcastic portrait of a typical American businessman, Warhol makes us look at ourselves in a new, critical way. By taking a posed portrait photograph of an average, middle-class man, silkscreening it onto a canvas, altering the color scheme and presenting it as avant-garde "high art," Warhol raises questions about why we call certain things art, and how the mainstream of popular culture looks at and effects...
Trott loses his religious faith and drifts into leftist political circles. He votes Socialist in the 1930 elections. In short, MacDonogh tells us much about the trivial details of Trott's life, but fails to link them together in a coherent portrait of a human being...
...emerged via Grand Hotel. In coming weeks they are being joined in musical stardom by Raul Julia and pop singer Sheena Easton in Man of La Mancha, Peter Gallagher (of the movie sex, lies, and videotape) in Guys and Dolls and Gregory Hines in Jelly's Last Jam, a portrait of composer Jelly Roll Morton. Next month Pulitzer prizewinner August Wilson's subtly tragic and robustly comic Two Trains Running will feature Larry Fishburne from the film Boyz N the Hood, while the Australian drama Shimada, about a Japanese-led corporate takeover, will offer Ellen Burstyn, Ben Gazzara and Estelle...