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...always wear black?" - which is broken in two when the character to whom it is spoken, Masha, silences the speaker mid-sentence with an impatient wave of her hand - I knew we were in trouble. Everywhere, Rickson throws in unnecessary filigree - extra pauses, characters wandering onto the stage unbidden - to emphasize the languorous, depressive mood; if I didn't know better, I might have thought it was a Chekhov parody. The Seagull remains one of the Russian master's richest and most affecting plays, but the preciousness of this production soured...
...This 1947 drama, Miller's first stage success, centers on Joe Keller, a manufacturer who knowingly shipped defective airplane parts during World War II. (It's quintessential Miller, which means quintessential Ibsen: there's no real action, just reaction to the revelation of long-hidden secrets.) Miller's indictment of business ethics and portrait of a family in crisis can seem overwrought, but McBurney's solution is to go the playwright one better; his expressionistic devices imbue the play with tragic universality. The capable cast includes John Lithgow as Joe, Dianne Wiest as his wife, and Patrick Wilson...
...form in similar ways as professionals are in India.” “Kalpanam” brings together professional-caliber dancing with a story that speaks to new audiences. Maitra admires the craft and creativity that the production’s group of dancers bring to the stage. “A two-hour classical dance drama in India would be choreographed by a dance teacher who will focus on that only for months,” she says. “Here we have less time, while also working on academics. It’s a very...
What shape would Obama take on the world stage? It's folly to predict. Events are moving too quickly. When Obama launched his campaign last year, the biggest issue in the world was Iraq. Now the public's interest - and U.S. involvement there - is dwindling almost by the day. Obama's bumper-sticker plan for Afghanistan - more troops to catch bin Laden - is being swallowed up in a befuddling tangle of intractable issues, ranging from the Afghan heroin trade to the instability of Kashmir. Foreign policy breeds surprises in American Presidents: Nixon went to China; Reagan proposed nuclear disarmament; Bush...
...Introduced as "the next President and the former President," the two bounded onto the stage together on a jarringly chilly Florida evening, sharing wide grins and the occasional backslap. They appeared in the state that has been a symbol of the nation's divisive politics since the 2000 recount and is now 2008's biggest up-for-grabs political prize...