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...minutes before impact, the two pilots of a USAir jet that crashed Saturday in Charlotte, N.C., were warned of dangerous wind shear, federal investigators say. The National Transportation Safety Board unearthed that and other details in a search for why the DC-9 went down with 57 people on board, killing 37. The NTSB, which hasgathered testimony from five surviving flight crew members, planned to release more specifics this evening.parpar
...Shear Madness. Indefinite run. This audience-participant whodunit is about the murderer of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is set. Charles playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. Call 426-5225 for tickets and more information...
...Shear Madness. Indefinite run. This audience-participant whodunit is about the over murder of a classical pianist who lived over the unisex hair salon where the show is St., Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., Boston. Call 426-5225 for tickets and more information...
...performers. Economically, they improve their prospects of getting produced because one-person shows involve fewer salaries -- onstage, obviously, but also backstage -- and require less scenery and costuming. Artistically, these actor-authors have bargaining power to keep their visions intact. Says Evangeline Morphos, a producer of Blown Sideways Through Life, Shear's account of getting and hating 64 jobs: "If you finance a one-person show, you basically buy into the creator's view of the world. The words and delivery are their sense of reality. And you market the personality as much as the play...
...audiences, the payoff varies. When a performer's piece is largely autobiographical, like Shear's or Redgrave's (which ran eight months on Broadway and is touring the country), the theatergoer can get the illusion of making an instant friendship. When the show is a bravura display of physical and vocal transformation from one character to another, like Glaser's deft Family Secrets or Spring's intensely acted if mawkishly overwritten The Mayor of Boys Town, the pleasure is seeing the conjurer's trick. When the writing is ambitiously literary, as in Taylor's eloquent if not galvanically performed pseudo...