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In Shakespeare's day, the play may have been the thing. Not any more. Today, especially in Europe, no self-respecting stage or opera director would think of missing an opportunity to reevaluate, re-interpret or otherwise revise even the most pedigreed plays and operas. Bizet's Carmen...
Both had done acting and playwriting before--Warner at Exeter and Rauch at Haddonsfield, New Jersey High School--and neither had thought seriously about directing, let alone directing as much as both of them eventually did. Four years and 40 shows later, they are Harvard's two premier directors and...
Written in 1904, Summerfolk was prescient about the 1905 revolution in Russia, which was a dress rehearsal for the cataclysm that brought the Bolsheviks to power twelve years later. Reflecting the boredom and despair of the Russian middle class, it is Gorky's most Chekhovian work. It follows, without...
Sellars' second error, which is almost admirable in its audacity, was to introduce Gershwin to Gorky. Fired last year as director of My One and Only, which brought Gershwin back to Broadway, Sellars apparently wanted to show how he would have directed Gershwin had he been allowed to. In...
Almost too bold and imaginative, Hang On to Me offers hints of the wonderful things Sellars may yet do, but does not do in this ungainly production. Although his cast of 26 is skillful and professional, he has wildly miscast some roles. Several of his players are too old for...