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David Luberoff, the executive director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at the Kennedy School of Government, welcomed the change, but said that the MBTA also must to address other more pressing issues, like fixing escalators, if it wants to maintain its riders’ trust...
...That’s] the really interesting thing,” said David Luberoff, the executive director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at the Kennedy School of Government...
Herb Gardner, author of the 1962 A Thousand Clowns, is the laureate of losers who wage hopeless battles while cracking jokes. He celebrates fighting the system as the way to keep the soul alive. So when he puts two old men on a bench in I'm Not Rappaport, it is not surprising that they are engaging codgers, inspired liars, tattered but gallant knights-errant. They take on the muggers, the drug dealers, the authorities who impose mandatory retirement, all without moving more than a few feet from the bench. Their skirmishes are uproarious. What gives the play...
...whose hips are fragile, "like a teacup." Yet they do not milk their infirmities for sympathy. They emphasize instead the odd-couple differences in their personalities and ways of life. As they egg each other on to battle, they also come to know and trust each other. Hence Rappaport is less a problem drama than a kind of love story. Little depicts a man who has survived by staying out of harm's way. Knowing that he is in danger of being pensioned off from his job as an apartment-house superintendent, he switches to the night shift and ducks...
...history of this production typifies the common-sense paths that producers are testing to escape the boom-or-bust cycle on Broadway, where high operating costs all but demand that shows have ecstatic reviews or a huge advance sale to survive. Rappaport started as a production of the Seattle Repertory Theater. Next, that company's artistic director, Daniel Sullivan, staged it off-Broadway in June. Word of mouth built, and so did sales. Late last month Rappaport transferred to Broadway, where it takes its place as the funniest and most touching play yet this season. --By William A. Henry...