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...Only a few years ago British arts critics were bemoaning the theater's detachment from politics. Where were the plays that dealt with the big issues? Iraq changed that. "I think it has revived the fortunes of political theater," says Benedict Nightingale, theater critic for the Times of London. "Here's something people felt strongly about and playwrights are there to respond to that worry...
...they once did in New York City. He grew up there, attending expensive U.S. schools and working off-Broadway. He went to Dublin at 21 to start a theater group and ended up running the respected Abbey Theatre's second stage. In 1988, Kennedy and his wife moved to London, where he cranked out four travel books and a novel, The Dead Heart...
...nearly 30 years, but he was practically born to the form. In the New York City suburb of Englewood, N.J., his Italian father Salvatore owned a tire shop, but his Irish mother Helen ran what John, the youngest of six, calls "the family business": show business. Mom directed local theater works; the other kids acted or studied music. John worked at becoming an actor-dancer-singer, and at 17 he almost won the title role in the Broadway Jesus Christ Superstar. The part he did get that year was in a summer theater revival of The Boy Friend...
Some plays should never be performed. Directed by Aileen K. Robinson ’08, and co-produced by Benjamin M. Poppel ’09 and Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08, Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater (HRST) inexplicably chose to perform Keith Bunin’s “The World Over.” This past Friday at the Loeb Experimental Theatre, HRST presented its audience with a commendable production of a terrible play...
...this point that Talk to Me embraces a dangerous paradox. By failing to fulfill our generic expectations, by letting its protagonist sink back into local hero status it cheats us of the good feelings we have come to expect from movies about show biz paragons. You leave the theater feeling disappointed by its failure to release the buoyant feelings that last-minute comebacks usually engender. Where's the hit movie, the Broadway triumph, the hysterically greeted concert tour that justifies all the hard times we have endured with our hero or heroine? It's only later, as you think...