Word: staging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer in each case: London. As a result, the city's ever thriving stage scene has hit its high point of the past few years. The leading trio of shows is better than anything -- revival, new musical or new play -- offered in New York City this past season, and London's other offerings far exceed Broadway's current roster in both quality and quantity. More shows are running in the West End this week than appeared on Broadway during the entire past season...
...prospect of seeing Hoffman on stage as Shylock -- or perhaps as anything at all -- prompted Londoners to buy out essentially the entire four-month run of The Merchant of Venice, giving the play the largest advance sale of any nonmusical show in West End history. For once the actual event is no disappointment, although in director Peter Hall's shrewd reading the play is more comedy than tragedy and focuses more on Portia (played by Geraldine James of TV's The Jewel in the Crown) than on Shylock...
...TOWN. Washington's Arena Stage gives a fizzy revival to the whole of the classic musical, which is exuberantly excerpted in Jerome Robbins' Broadway...
What set the stage for a backlash was the deregulation of such industries as airlines and broadcasting. While the loosening of rules typically brought consumers lower prices and wider choices, the process reduced governmental monitoring of business. In its free-market zeal, the Reagan Administration cut the budgets and staffs of the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other supervisory agencies. In a Yankelovich poll conducted for TIME this year, nearly 80% of the Americans surveyed said the Government sides too often with business when it comes to environmental issues...
...evidence, consider the Kronos concert at Manhattan's Alice Tully Hall last month. It was a multimedia program, arranged by the avant-garde Italian stage designer Alessandro Moruzzi, titled "Assembly Required." Dressed in unisex costumes of jet-black shirts and slacks, the four musicians walked onto a stage jumbled with speakers, tape equipment and an assortment of lights and mechanical gears. Before each of the scheduled four works, played without intermission, the Kronos members, in stately, choreographed movements, placed the lights and objects to cast different shadow forms on four screens set up behind their chairs. The program typically offered...