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With a budget of $1.1 million, the company has built a solid repertory of 41 works, but it still finds that educating an audience can be difficult. A Swan Lake fills Atlanta's 4,400-seat Fox Theater, but modern works at the 856-seat Alliance Theater play to half a house. Yet Fischl sees signs of growing sophistication: "We still get people who giggle at the tights, but the number is dropping, and people are accepting them as just another uniform...
...Annalyn Swan...
...Clayburgh. Erica is the role this gifted actress has deserved for years, and now that she has it, she doesn't fool around. She swings gracefully from mood to mood-from hostile confrontations to hysterical shrink sessions to intimate and comic romantic interludes. She even dances a daffy Swan Lake in her T shirt and panties. Though An Unmarried Woman is otherwise populated by busted couples, Clayburgh and Mazursky make a sublime pair. - Frank Rich
...country's freshly romantic disposition is to be found in the worlds of symphony, opera and ballet; increasingly audiences have cooled on experimental and abstract works while warmly receiving new performances of old favorites such as Brahms' Second Symphony, Carmen and Swan Lake. The mood of theatergoers was dramatized neatly on Broadway when an effort to revive Hair fizzled dismally with critics and public alike, while Man of La Mancha, with all its improbable visions, came back successfully (to run alongside such other hits as the shamelessly treacly Annie and Neil Simon's latest domestic frolic, Chapter...
...opening up in colleges and so many hungry young Ph.D.s in desperate need of positions, the job-market function of the M.L.A. threatened to upstage the intellectual encounter of linguists, English literature and foreign-language professors who make up the M.L.A. 's membership. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan and Reporter Ellie McGrath were on hand to observe...