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...delicious dreamworld. A last perfect touch: the carpet is flanked by two small pools, suitable for bathing and wallowing, where villains can be dunked and lovers share a kiss. The set is the playgoer's first cue to enchantment; before a word is spoken in this rapturous revival of Twelfth Night, designer Bob Crowley has alerted you to expect wonders. He has already provided...
...designers. With his 1987 Broadway debut, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (all those elegant, suffocating drapes!), and 1994's Tony-winning Carousel (a small town in idyllic greens and blues), the kid from Cork, Ireland, showed the breadth and iridescence of his gifts. This year he had three new Broadway shows: Twelfth Night, the Oscar Wilde bio-play The Judas Kiss and Paul Simon's The Capeman. Amid the rubble of Capeman's reviews, Crowley earned praise for his expressionistic perspectives of uptown tenements and upstate jails. He is now at work on four projects, including Hytner's film of the show...
Hytner, the first of this generation of Brit boy-wonder directors, says he wouldn't have done Carousel or Twelfth Night without Crowley. "Bob's aesthetic is mine as well: that a theater world should be poetic, a world of the imagination; that it should be hospitable to actors; that it should be bold in the use of colors." That would account for the glorious pools, and the pathways that slide together at the end to bring the lovers together. As Hytner says, "We are also both totally shameless about feeling that now and then you have to give...
HELEN HUNT: Taking the plunge into Shakespeare, the TV star turned Oscar winner comes through swimmingly. As the shipwrecked, lovestruck, cross-dressing Viola in a limited-run Broadway revival of Twelfth Night, Hunt sparkles almost as much as the onstage pool in a production that is a midsummer night's dream...
...most extensive U.S. visit to date, a six-week run that began at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and is now at Washington's Kennedy Center--where its no-star production of Hamlet just set a house record. Helen Hunt, fresh from her Oscar, will star as Viola in Twelfth Night, opening in mid-July at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. R&J, a quirky, all-male version of Romeo and Juliet, is creating buzz off-Broadway. And just arrived in New York, following a nationwide tour and a stint in London, is Love's Fire, an evening of seven short...