Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pilot to land his 747 at a Dutch airport. There they demand and get a NATO helicopter to lift them and their hostages to a comfortably furnished farmhouse in Flevoland, one of the large areas that the industrious Hollanders have reclaimed from the sea. The house becomes the stage where this incongruous assembly play out their views on politics, religion, art and morality...
Without the American musical theater there might not be any American theater. Except for a very occasional O'Neill or Williams, the great writers of the U.S. stage have not been playwrights but composers and lyricists: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, to name but a few. Beginning with the first modern musical, Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat (1927), these writers have created a durable and increasingly versatile native art form. Broadway musicals at their best fuse music, dance, drama and plain old show...
...numbers are exceptionally well done. Rather than restage them for television-a deflating technique endemic to PBS's Theater in America series-Kaye shoots them on a proscenium stage, usually with the help of the original set designs, orchestrations and choreography...
...office he always seemed to be at center stage: the brilliant foreign affairs analyst who never shrank from controversy, the peripatetic statesman who was forever soaring off to distant capitals on secret missions that, when revealed, sent seismic shocks through chancelleries around the world. Even out of power, he remains the subject of intense interest: heads of state seek his counsel, his support on issues is solicited, he is deferred to?even feared?as if he still strode the corridors of the White House and State Department. During his eight years as Richard Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs...
STRAIGHTFORWARD enactments of Wagner's text complement the implicit parody of the hand-puppets and dummies. For the entry into Valhalla over the rainbow bridge in Rheingold, the bridge is projected through a transparency onto the rear wall of the stage; Brunnhilde's enchantment at the end of Walkure occurs atop a ladder, wrapped in a crimson cape and defended by a cordon of flashing lights; for the funeral march in Gotterdammerung, Siegfried's body is set in a huge wooden cart that Brunnhilde, haloed by a spotlight, pulls along. Sellars manages these scenes better than many directors with...