Word: theater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardscrabble town of Marianna, Ark. (pop. 6,200), near the Mississippi River, has no movie theater but plenty of boarded-up storefronts. Summer work for teenagers can mean wrenching labor in the rice and soybean fields. Young black men know that if they want something better, they have to go elsewhere...
...hover on the periphery, exploiting the players and the game. Offsetting the gloom are a clear narrative drive, Nunn's trademark cinematic staging, three superb leading performances by actors willing to be complex and unlikable and one of the best rock scores ever produced in the theater. This is an angry, difficult, demanding and rewarding show, one that pushes the boundaries of the form...
...Middle East, it was a rare moment of restrained confrontation. There, on the stage of the Jerusalem Theater, sat Palestinian Professor Saeb Erakat and two colleagues rationally -- if grimly -- debating Arab-Israeli hatreds with four Israeli politicians. In fact, Erakat indicated that he was speaking his mind more freely than he normally felt he could in Israel. Why? "I think that here," he said, "I'm in ABC territory...
...town meeting was especially delicate to organize. Palestinian audience members were bused to the theater for the 6:30 a.m. telecast only after special approval came from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A number of potential Palestinian panelists refused to participate. Speaking for the Palestinians, they claimed, is a role that belongs only to the P.L.O. The three representatives who did appear insisted that the wall be set up and avoided even looking at the Israelis for most of the show...
Smith, whose mother appeared in the American Repertory Theater's production of Uncle Vanya, fell from the stairway to a concrete basement floor during a film-screening of the play last month. The wide staircase railing, which has alarmed employees at the center since it was built in 1963 and was noted as a hazard by a state building inspector in 1985, featured wide gaps between its horizontal bars that allowed the small child to slip through...