Word: theater
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...rising disappointment in Europe with the Obama Administration - but not much more than that. "Everyone would lose if this were to spread to commercial trade, and there also isn't much political gain pushing this much further than it has now," Bacharan says. "The anger is good theater to a domestic audience, but it would travel very poorly across the Atlantic." (Read "France's Boardrooms: Little Diversity...
...orchestra’s complementation of his performance was not perfect at times, Tam displayed a uniquely sensitive and heart wrenching interpretation of Chopin’s first piano concerto. Especially striking during the second movement, Tam’s phrasing evoked a tender fragility that lingered in the theater even with the swell of the orchestra behind him. Tam’s artistry in no way overshadowed his technique during this notably difficult concerto—he presented strength and articulation in the intricate fast passages of the third movement until the concerto’s robust conclusion...
...Bertolt Brecht and Steve Jobs collaborated on a play about economic downturn, the end result might look something like the lifeless, sluggish production of Clifford Odets’s “Paradise Lost” currently running at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). Brecht would insist on calling attention to the show’s own theatricality, thereby distancing the audience and forcing them to separate their emotions from the action onstage in order to realize an important truth. Meanwhile, Jobs would persistently add more and more technology to the play, to no rational end. This is the feel...
Shaffer’s body of work is an idiosyncratic mix of gloomy, meditative dramas and satirical comedies. “Five Finger Exercise,” which runs in the Loeb Experimental Theater through March 12, is the play that garnered him his first public acclaim in 1958, and it can’t seem to decide which side of that genre line it falls on. Despite a few missed notes, the cast very nearly reconciles these two disparate halves into a cohesive whole that entertains while confronting serious questions of family, responsibility, and class...
Congress may be struggling to pass much legislation these days, but its members remain masters at summoning indignation. As political theater, the first few days of congressional hearings into Toyota's customer-safety crisis had it all: testy exchanges, Clintonian hairsplitting, obnoxious grandstanding--even multiple references to Marisa Tomei's automotive wizardry in My Cousin Vinny. On Feb. 24, Toyota president Akio Toyoda, grandson of the company's founder, sat before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to apologize. "Quite frankly, I fear the pace at which we have grown may have been too quick," he said, as members...