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...overall 3,000 percent increase over the last 22 years). The multimillion-dollar loss felt collectively by owners this season is less a result of occasional $6 million contracts to the game's Ryne Sandbergs than of frequent $2 million contracts to the game's Matt Youngs and Von Hayeses (translation for the non-fan: "losers...
directed by Julian von Loesch and Richard Eoin Nash...
...there are heroes in this play, they are undoubtedly directors Julian von Loesch and Richard Eoin Nash. Excluding the excessive dead time between scenes, the directors professionally guide the 13 actors through their maze of lines, dance, music and movement...
...successes of von Loesch and Nash's direction were formidable, considering the failings of Muller's text. The play itself seems to be another title to add to the growing number of plays aimed solely at examining tradition and modern society and then slowly destroying them. Disregarding fundamentals of plot and character, Hamletmaschine barrels on like a renegade freight train to a destination unknown. The program guide indeed forewarns us that the "production might be unpalatable to people accustomed to traditional forms of theater," but the disclaimer does not excuse the play's lack of coherence and design...
...BEST THING ABOUT TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD is its subject. Christopher Hampton's 1982 play focuses on leading German literary emigres who settled in the film capital in the '30s and '40s, namely Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann and his brother Heinrich (along with Austro-Hungarian dramatist Odon von Horvath, who never really made it to America but serves as fictionalized narrator). Yet an impressive cast -- Jeremy Irons, Alec Guinness, Sinead Cusack -- cannot lift this PBS American Playhouse adaptation much above elegant name dropping. Despite snatches of Ragtime-esque fantasy and an ending that pays homage to Sunset Boulevard, the drama...