Word: theater
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...THEATER...
...Adams House Pocket Theater...
DAVID Mamet must be an extremely busy man. Long a playwright (American Buffalo) and screenwriter (The Untouchables), last year he also became a director, filming his own screenplay for House of Games. Considering these activities and his myriad other projects (including some here at the American Repertory Theater), it's a wonder that he ever found time to write and direct Things Change. From the looks of things, he must have done it all on his lunch hour...
Deaf poet Peter Cook and interpreter Kenny Lerner garnered repeated applause--waving hands in American Sign Language (ASL)--from the approximately 60 people in the audience. The reading was presented by the Boston Theater of the Deaf (BDT), Harvard coordinators for persons with disabilities and the Phillips Brooks House Committee for the Deaf...
...Just look at the plight of two of TV's most cherished stars, both returning in CBS sitcoms this fall: Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke. The pilot episode of The Van Dyke Show (in which Dick plays a Broadway star who helps his son run a regional theater) had to be scrapped and redone when the network decided it wasn't funny enough. Mary's comeback vehicle (she plays a divorced mother who marries a structural engineer with children of his own) also had to be reworked when the producers switched the actor playing Mary's husband. Even...