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...Broadway by the same director, Michael Blakemore, with a new and mostly American cast. It builds slowly into a brilliant exposition of the troubled relationship between the elite and the masses, both in the broad public arena and in the narrow but fierce politics of the hearth. Sam Waterston portrays a young London architect who gets his big break, a commission to design public housing. Mindful that semidetached cottages are what blue-collar Britons prefer, he nonetheless opts for massive towers as the only practicable response to the vagaries of the redevelopment site. Glenn Close plays his wife, gradually torn...
...work and Ginkas’s adaptation is all the more striking because the dialogue of the play, save for the clowns’ episodes, is a word-for-word transcription of the entire Chekhov story. The protagonists, Dmitry Gurov (Stephen Pelinksi) and Anna Sergeyevna (Elisabeth Waterston), serve as narrators, acting out their words and emotions as the play unfolds. This technique might sound literary and dry—but in fact it works surprisingly well, for the actors are lacking enough in self-conscious enough to pull...
...cloth, variously becomes a bed sheet, a snowbank and hotel upholstery. The music, composed by Leonid Desyatnikov, is catchy if far too loud. Michael Chybowski, the lighting designer, creates beautiful scenes of glowing parasols, gleaming water and golden dust against the black background of the stage. The actors, especially Waterston as the beautiful and fiercely determined young adulteress, are all competent, though their frenetic energy is not enough to ward off the interminable boredom that the slow-moving staging imposes. Lady With a Lapdog also features what has to be one of the most bizarre and entertaining sex scenes...
Your choices range from self-help books to celebrity biographies, from John Grisham thrillers to the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, most narrated by well-known actors (Sam Waterston, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenda Jackson, Michael York) and compressed into easy-listening chunks of three or four hours -- "because," as one audio publisher's blurb puts it, "books are long and life is short...
Waters' spiffy new farce, Serial Mom, mocks this frenzy. It's about a suburban matron (Kathleen Turner, nicely balancing agitation with propriety) who has a caring dentist husband (Sam Waterston), two fairly normal teenage kids -- and an urge to kill anyone who affronts her notion of decency. If someone should chastise her children or date a fast girl or refuse to recycle, Mom goes maniacal...