Word: rubinstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexico State University's production of Children, Steinberg, the only one around who knew how to sign, played the part of James. But when Gordon Davidson took the play to the Mark Taper Forum, John Rubinstein, 33, a more experienced actor, took on the role...
...supervisors began holding regular meetings with workers on company time to discuss worker complaints and ideas for boosting efficiency. In order to turn the gripe sessions into something more substantive, both sides agreed to bring in an outside consultant to organize worker-participation projects. They chose Sydney Rubinstein, 52, a former blue-collar tool-and-die worker and white-collar engineer, who had become an expert on worker innovation and productivity...
...wage increase in the first year of the contract and 8% in the second year -roughly the same pay increase that the union probably could have obtained without a strike. In addition, the M.T.A.'s package contains several cost-saving provisions, including cutting down on overtime. Complained David Rubinstein, a conductor and dissident union member: "Something is wrong here, and something stinks...
...last effort is made to help Sarah realize her potentialities. The challenge appeals to James (John Rubinstein), an accomplished therapist who is witty, idealistic and amiably self-spoofing. Sparks fly between the two as they define their personalities and their pasts. The sparks become flames as they fall in love, make love and get married. All of this has the engaging aura of balletic miming with Frelich vividly signing and Rubinstein translating the signs into words. At times, this verges perilously close to charades, but for the most part the actors make it ardent, touching and frolicsome...
...Rubinstein and Frelich do their best to make this plausible, and their ensemble work is wondrously skilled. So is the adept and imaginative direction of Gordon Davidson, at whose Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles this drama originated. Phyllis Frelich is actually deaf, and her presence on the stage of the Longacre Theater may be a Broadway first...