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...their careers bolstered—or indeed wholly founded—on the strength of the gorgeous daguerreotypes of them and the lithographs copied from these, but they are overwhelmed by the star of this show. Edwin Forrest, an actor from the 1850s, was renowned for his portrayals of theater??s great heroic figures, and his huge twelve-inch-by-ten-inch daguerreotype reflects in faithful detail that summation of his character. Huge and hulking, his portrait seems to extend beyond the planar surface to surreally three-dimensional proportions and his face, slightly jowled and obstinate, demands nothing...
...including Your Friends and Neighbors and In the Company of Men, has created a fiendishly clever play that breaks out of its familiar (albeit amusing) framework of relationship comedy and achieves a level of provocativeness that is unexpected. The Shape of Things is a stunningly funny, engaging piece of theater??the best new play of the year...
Wellman has built himself a nice little perch above the landscape of traditional American theater, from which he occasionally leans out and spits at the ground below. He is one of contemporary theater??s dark princes of sensual excess and linguistic innovation; his works focus on the spectacle and grotesquery of extreme personalities and places...
...Agassiz Theater, elegant as always, is a perfect venue for the play. The simple sets are accentuated by the theater??s beauty, and the elaborate costumes provide the rest of the requisite grandeur. Additionally, the actors seem very comfortable with the dress and mannerisms of seventeenth-century aristocracy...
...their first project in 1958, a comedy about the ongoing space race called “Countdown!,” which debuted in 1960 as a “modest production” in Leverett House. Carl remembers, “I grew up in a home with musical theater??my father was a piano player, and I sang in the high school Glee Club, so I knew about 2000 songs by the time I got here. I then found Steve [Price] who loved musical theater as well, and we got together and had some great times working...