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...fall Broadway schedule: “Assassins is a show which asks audiences to think critically about various aspects of the American experience. In light of [Sept. 11th’s] murderous assault on our nation and on the most fundamental things in which we all believe, we, the Roundabout, and director Joe Mantello believe this is not an appropriate time to present a show which makes such a demand...
...Gustasson died earlier this year, but only after having served as an honorary chairman and guest at a number of charitable functions in the organization that was, in the most roundabout way, named...
Cherry Jones, one of our best stage actresses, is surprisingly subdued as Shaw's Salvation Army idealist, and David Warner, in his U.S. stage debut, is too suave and nonthreatening as her arms-merchant father, the capitalist who alters her dreams. Still, even if the Roundabout Theatre's new production of Shaw's great comedy lacks some pizazz, it can't douse the fire of a dramatist out to bust open the sentimentality and conventional wisdom that infected both society and the stage. We could use a new Shaw today; until he (or she) comes along, the old one will...
...environment has been George Bush's own personal roundabout recently, capturing him in a cycle of misdirection and frustration with each new turn. In advance of his first European trip, he tried one more time to get left on the issue by showing his administration's commitment to addressing the problem of global warming. In a Rose Garden ceremony Monday, the president acknowledged America's responsibility as a polluter and promised to study the issue and create incentives for new technologies to combat it. It was a game effort to remedy a blotchy image, but the question for the White...
...meantime, I mean, I'm answering your question in a roundabout way because I want to put it in an overall context. What happens in the Middle East affects relations with, obviously now, more so than ever, with other nations in the region, and that includes places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Those countries are very anxious about what's taking place in the Middle East...