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NO MATTER WHAT the American Premier Stage dished out in its first two programs. I was prepared to be generous and far-sighted, to bury my cavils in a cornucopia of praise for the nobility and daring of the enterprise. New playwrights have painfully few outlets for their work in...
There is another reason to be generous: the difficulties of starting a new repertory company--let alone a company devoted to new works--are virtually insurmountable. Theatre critics in this country, for one thing, are notoriously short-sighted, more concerned with writing funny, energetic pans than with gauging a company...
When Ponce de León first sighted thi shores of what he believed was an island on a balmy March day in 1513, he named it Florida (full of flowers), in honor of the Easter season. The region was settled slowly, even reluctantly. South Florida, in particular, was terra incognita...
The following morning, Fisherman Bertil Sturkman got a rude surprise. Rowing his dory past Little Horse Island, a rocky nodule in the Blekinge cluster 330 miles south of Stockholm, he sighted a 250-ft. Soviet "Whiskey"-class patrol submarine, No. 137, hard aground about 10 yds. offshore. Sturkman rowed on...
Within the first week, Majeski had pinpointed Abbott traveling by bus from New York to Pennsylvania, then to Washington, D.C., and finally on to Chicago. At that point he was two days behind his quarry. Majeski assumed that Abbott would visit his sister in Salt Lake City, but he turned...