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...writers yet largely unknown in the U.S. -- although his Beautiful City, part of a trilogy touching on the same family, has just finished a run in Chicago, and Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, had a splendid production starring Tom Hulce at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum in 1988. Walker's work certainly travels. Although Escape was originally set in Toronto, Lewis' staging makes it feel entirely American, from the opening moment, when a battered TV onstage starts blaring The Donna Reed Show, to the snarling climax, when at least four people are pointing weapons...
According to Duncan, most of the swimmers on the team are in the middle of their taper in anticipation of Easterns, which makes it very hard to tell how fast they will be able to race tonight...
...America, mythic in scale yet humbly rooted in the evolving fate of the same few hundred acres of Kentucky. Playwright Robert Schenkkan proves a spectacularly vivid revisionist, underscoring the violence, exploitation, multiracial antagonism and unchecked injustice of our past. Produced at Seattle's Intiman Theater and Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, this was the first Pulitzer Prize drama not seen in New York City and is thus a triumph for all regional theater...
...some government colossus, already cracked and waiting to split open. It did -- to reveal an avenging angel that was just one of the acts of theatrical and metaphysical daring in this brilliant if roughhewn jumble of politics, fantasy and farce. The full Angels debuted memorably at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, starring Ron Leibman as Republican dealmaker Roy Cohn...
WHERE: MARK TAPER FORUM, LOS ANGELES...