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...little wrong and much beguilingly right with the staging by Nicholas Hytner, who also mounted the grandiose Miss Saigon and the brooding The Madness of George III, and who draws on both styles here. From a leaf-strewn greensward on a hill to a steepled white church in the twilight distance, from the island dunes of a clambake to the fairground fantasy of the title, this production entrancingly conjures iconic places of bygone mill-town New England with expressionistic verve and cinematic speed of transition. The actors are adequate, save for irksome mugging by the chorus, and the singing...
Smith burst into the national consciousness with Fires in the Mirror, which played off-Broadway and around the U.S., became a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in drama and was adapted for PBS. That piece took on a confined conflict between blacks and Jews in Brooklyn. Her new Twilight tackles the complex sociology of the Los Angeles riots. After a spellbinding debut there, it has been revised and restaged for an off-Broadway run starting next week, with a transfer to Broadway planned for April...
...scope of Twilight is far removed from the simplicity of one-person shows of a generation ago, mostly readings at a lectern. Sometimes the performer impersonated the author with costume and makeup, as Hal Holbrook did in evoking Mark Twain. Sometimes an actor merely read passages stirringly, as Eileen Atkins did for Virginia Woolf. Worth is now doing the same for Wharton; she just ended an entrancing off-Broadway run and has upcoming dates in Princeton, New Jersey, and at London's Royal National Theatre. "I am not remotely taking on Wharton's persona," Worth says. "I never...
...scene is replayed as a chanted Glass opera. In a cage, three monkeys grouse at their typewriters, condemned to stay there till one of them pounds out Hamlet. A fellow at a restaurant can never get what he wants unless he orders something else, because he is in a twilight funk called "a Philadelphia." In The Universal Language, Ives' warmest, newest sketch, a woman with a speech impediment enrolls in a course for a jabberwocky tongue that only she and her teacher speak: English is "John Cleese," stammering is "tongue Stoppard...
...rivalries still exist. The problem is the players aren't as good--so who really cares. Acie Earl squaring off against Vlade Divac doesn't conjure up images of Parish against Kareem, or Russell against Chamberlain in the twilight of their careers...