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Four bills on rent control sponsored by State Rep. Philip Travis (D. Bristol) were discussed before the House Local Affairs Committee, amidst cheers and jeers by a vociferous audience of members of the Small Property Owners Association (SPOA), which was responsible for drafting the bills, and rent control activists who...
On the political level, much of the discussion focused on the propriety of the way the bills were pushed by SPOA and Travis.
Travis said he was sponsoring the bills because he wanted the property owners to have their say, not in order to hurt the people who live in rent controlled apartments. "I'm not trying to be an ogre and throw people out."
Such was the moral of the Dutch Vanishing: curiosity killed the cat. It's a provocative premise, but it wants some legerdemain and a third act. Enter screenwriter Todd Graff (Used People). He takes the original's perplexing flashback structure, flattens it out and fattens it up, mostly by creating...
The best moments occur with most of the cast on stage. No stilted choreography mars the action. With a few exceptions (notably the hollow scenes featuring only loving couple Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo or only Yum-Yum and her two maids), director Michele Travis smoothly guides her cast through...