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Weales, Gerald

Stage: (December 1993)

have swarmed into his theater. Standing on a platform high above lectuals, Terry, a pop-music promoter and gambler, has been the stage, the actor's wife gets his attention with a cry. He looks...

Stage: (November 1993)

And can a mere TV series bear this weight of interpreta- the physical ones. tion? I can imagine an Elizabethan nerd asking the same thing, In the political play, the Prince of...

Stage: (October 1993)

poets because they were immoral liars, the smug, madden- Yearbook, 1990-91. That volume, as the series regularly ingly normal self-righteous have been trying to insist that does...

Stage: (September 1993)

hatred of foreigners in both West and East serves as a conve- nient cover for the deeper resentments between the two Germanies. The troubled, violent youth in West and...

Stage (July 1993)

STAGE SERIOUS & GROTESQUE KUSHNER'S 'ANGELS' he drumroll of excitement about Tony Kushner' s Angels in America was heard long before part 1 (Millennium Approaches) opened at the Walter Kerr...

Stage (June 1993)

writer knows how to begin a scene on a deceptive note of calm tion. For us outsiders, its acceptance depends on the way it works before making it gradually mount to violence....

Stage (May 1993)

STAGE that lightens his whole countenance when it comes, as it...

Stage: (April 1993)

STAGE she gets a word right-as in the charming duet with Amy, her ...

Stage (March 1993)

that he and his wife explore the facts of their son's illness as if reading the Bible, and exercising regularly in the hopes that he they were learning a foreign language that led to their...

Stage: (February 1993)

seriously for a second. It's a contraption, not a characteriza- does at least as well as Jack Nicholson in capturing the physi-...

Stage (January 1993)

there is something about Malcolm X that resists the black film- The New York production replaced the original researcher-per- maker Spike Lee. And that something is the unrelenting...

Stage (December 1992)

GENDER WARS 'OLEANNA' & 'DESDEMONA he characters in David Mamet's Oleanna have names—John and Carol—but they might as well have been called professor and student or man and woman or accused and...

Stage (November 1992)

ewYork's Young Playwrights' Festival is in its eleventh season and, to my discredit, I have gone to a program for the first time this year. I did try back in 1990, as a curious playgoer not as...

Stage (October 1992)

Eastwood, accompanied by an old pal, Nate, and a young wannabe shootist, the Schofield Kid, takes on the assignment. But wait. We have seen the knifing of that poor whore and Munny hasn't. One...

Stage (September 1992)

'DREAM' IN A RAIN FOREST SHAKESPEARE IN RIO I went to Brazil hoping to see some of the more elusive mammals in the Atlantic rain forest, and I did see two different groups of golden lion tamarins...

Stage (August 1992)

June Frcmkland Baker Coquinas butterfly-shell clams These minute shells, opened but hinged, rest in a mahogany dish turned by my uncle. After he died, Mother, flying thousands of miles, carried it...

Stage (June 1992)

STACE CARDBOARD COLUMBUS 'THE INSIDE STORY' & 'THE OUTSIDE' he Bread and Puppet Theater is thirty years old this year. Columbus's discovery of America is five hundred years old. The two...

Stage (June 1992)

STAGE GROUP CRISES 'TWO TRAINS' & 'CONVERSATIONS' There is a running gag in August Wilson's Two Trains Running which works in a variety of ways, as running gags have a way of doing. West,...

Stage (May 1992)

STAGE MOST HAPPY GUY LOESSER IS ALWAYS MORE VF hen Eric Bentley put together his idiosyncratic American-drama volume for his Anchor series, The Modern Theatre, he included the book of Guys and...

Stage (May 1992)

STAGE GO AHEAD, SHOOT 'DEATH & THE MAIDEN' & 'BABOONS' Somewhere beneath the slick and enervating surface of Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, there are serious themes struggling to get...

Stage (April 1992)

STAGE FINAL ACTS 'WALTZ,' 'HOME,' & 'CLOSER' aula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz, which played at the Circle Repertory earlier this year, must be the funniest AIDS play ever written—which does...

Stage (April 1992)

STAGE COMING APART 'MARRIAGE' & 'SARAH & ABRAHAM' Plays by Marsha Norman and Edward Albee, not yet performed in New York, have recently had premieres elsewhere along the Amtrak line— Norman's...

Stage (March 1992)

STAGE DOWN THE TUBES BLUE MAN GROUP 'PIECES' When the advertisement for Blue Man Group's Tubes appeared last fall, it looked like a case of upward-mobility tidying. When I first saw Matt...

Stage (February 1992)

STAGE IDENTITY CRISIS 'SIGHT UNSEEN,' 'DIVIDENDS,' & 'BEAU' It is easy to be unfair to Donald Margulies as a playwright— to say, as did the friend who accompanied me to Sight Unseen at the...

Stage (February 1992)

STAGE THE BARD LIVES 'PERICLES' & 'NIGHT'S DREAM' Pericles is one of the most beautiful plays ever written." With that sentence, M. Elizabeth Osborn opened her love song to Shakespeare's...

Stage (January 1992)

STAGE TOUGH LOVE, FALSE LOVE 'MARVIN'S ROOM' & 'HUMAN REMAINS' At the end of Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room, the protagonist, whose leukemia is apparently incurable, continues to bustle about...

Stage (January 1992)

STAGE VOICE & MOUTH & FACE CHAIKIN'S 'STRUCK DUMB' Joseph Chaikin visited Swarthmore College this fall to conduct a two-week workshop in acting and directing. At the end of his stay he gave a...

Stage (December 1991)

of this Cape Fear. And the skeleton rejects the body. The story is still, even after all of Scorsese's hocus-pocus, a tale of a rapist tormenting innocents. The audience still wants to see...

Stage (December 1991)

set to a Tchaikovsky-pastiche score. Fitfully compelling, the piece consisted largely of a series of lengthy pas de deux for Anna and her adulterous lover, Vronksy. Pamela Robinson's Anna was...

Stage (November 1991)

STAGE PULLING STRINGS 'RADIANT CITY' & 'CIVILIZATION' heodora Skipitares's The Radiant City at the American Place Theatre, the story of the building of a not-so-radiant city, begins in the ice...

Stage (November 1991)

In fact, I suspect that one reason for "Trek's" astonishing popularity in rerun after it was canceled has to do with the Vietnam syndrome. We are all victims of delayed stress over that...

Stage (October 1991)

Nashville didn't: a sense of what the music means to its audience. In the Richard Lester movie, the Beatles brought a new feeling of freedom and sexual lyricism to middle-class British girls...

Stage (October 1991)

zest that the detective, a tough customer, becomes the still center of the lawyer's storm. Even as he tries to respond to the cross- examination, the cop can't help noticing the stress that...

Stage (September 1991)

In his "savage comedy," as the subtitle calls it, Leguizamo presents a gallery of Latino characters (the program lists seven, but he chooses among them so that no performance is exactly like the...

Stage (September 1991)

Yet, because only disbelief in men, not rage, powers this film, none of the male characters, except the rapist, is characterized as truly evil, only as doltish (Thelma's husband), well-meaning but...

Stage (August 1991)

And you can't not watch the damn show: it connects that intimately with what we really think "winning" is all about, these days. I hope you've seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, one of the...

Stage (July 1991)

as minimalism. Volante's genius is to create an individual so self-contained and private that the camera seems to spy on him. The schema of this movie resembles that of a Costa-Gavras film like Z...

Stage (June 1991)

white children; and where there is segregated housing, busing is an effective tool to bring about such racial integration. At the same time, it must also be recognized that many schools...

Stage (June 1991)

hopped-up slum rat. At last, she is La Femme Nikita. Then she opens her gift. It's a pair of loaded, state-of-the-art handguns. "Bob" tells her to wait until he has left before killing the...

Stage (May 1991)

But the dialogue in the trial scenes is so lifeless that Torn starts to labor visibly, the way all good actors do when they are asked to supply the wit that their scripts lack. Lee Grant as the...

Stage (May 1991)

to feed the faithful. I can see that they are different--the weariness and discouragement at the end of my fragmented days; the strength and hope of wholeness that are given in the Eucharist....

Stage (April 1991)

STAGE BEYOND THE MESA 'SPEED OF DARKNESS' & 'NIRVANA' teve Tesich told a New York Times interviewer (March 12, 1991) that "the only thing I will write for the theater is something that involves...

Stage (April 1991)

Why you should get a Second Opinion (The Park Ridge Center's quarterly journal of health, faith, and ethics) "Second Opinionis increasingly regarded as one of the finest [journals]...

Stage (March 1991)

over the years? There's more to Cyrano than the clash of swords. But kids are notoriously bored by love scenes and flights of lyricism. And it is the prominent love story and the all-pervasive...

Stage (February 1991)

STAGE WITHOUT A LIGHT 'NORMAL LIFE' & 'BRIGHT ROOM' n Delmore Schwartz's most famous story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," the protagonist/narrator watches his parents courting as though...

Stage (February 1991)

There is a scene at the high table in which the conventional sympathy of his colleagues sets Jack off in an angry diatribe--the anger more apparent to me than the exact words were...

Stage (January 1991)

pressed breadearner's exasperation, he serves up a rarity: a witty portrait of a simple, humorless man. Avalon may fail as social insight but it is wonderfully alive. It doesn't expand our adult...

Stage (January 1991)

STAGE DEGREES OF DIFFERENCE 'SIX DEGREES' & 'FEVER' "~ y now presumably everyone---or everyone who _9 reads celebrity gossip columns--knows that '~ John Guare's SixDegrees of Separation is...

Stage: (December 1990)

LOVE & DEATH 'FALSETTOLAND' & 'ISLAND' I came to Falsettoland late. I missed the first two installments of William Finn's "Marvin Trilogy"-In Trousers (1978), March of the Falsettos (1980)-in...

Stage: (December 1990)

STAGE PITFALLS OF AMBITION 'NINAGAWA MACBETH' & 'GONZA When Yukio Ninagawa's production of Medea played at the Delacorte in Central Park in 1986, the director solved a problem that I have...

Stage (November 1990)

STAGE YOUNG WOMAN IN A WEB 'MACHINAL' AT THE PUBLIC Numor has it that Joseph Papp asked Michael Greiftojoin the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater after seeing his production of Sophie...

Stage (November 1990)

STAGE CREATURES ALL 'SPECIES' & 'MOSES' Martha Clarke's Endangered Species begins when one member of the company crawls diagonally across the large stage at BAM's Majestic Theater (the patented...

Stage (October 1990)

RICHARD ALLEVA STAGE A CRITIQUE OF GOD'S PLAY THE PUPPETMASTER OF LODZ' The Puppetmaster of Lodz is an intriguing play. It was written by Gilles Segal, a Romanian-born French playwright, actor,...

Stage: (October 1990)

CROSSING THE WE-THEY GAP 'SMOKE ON THE MOUNTAIN' New York audiences are ambivalent about theater in the Southern idiom. When the Southern Theater Conspiracy's production of Tent Meeting turned up...

Stage (September 1990)

STAGE ASYLUM DENIED GALLAGHER'S 'DE DONDE?' When the Festival Latino played at Joseph Papp's Public Theater last summer, each of the offerings carried a label indicating the country of its...

Stage: (August 1990)

STAGE ASPECTS OF DESIRE 'ELLIOT LOVES' & 'PRELUDE' There was a time when avant-garde aggression was popular in the theater, when a light in the eyes, a discordant noise, an invasion from the...

Stage (July 1990)

STAGE PLAY IT AGAIN 'PIANO LESSON' & 'SPUNK' It is unusual for a play to win the Pultizer Prize before its New York opening, but that is what August Wilson's The Piano Lesson did. As with the...

Stage (June 1990)

SCREEN BAD COP. BAD COP LUMET'S 'O & A' usually rejoice when a moviemaker strives for dramatic fullness, but Sidney Lumet's Q&A is downright congested. The movie is so stuffed with plot twists,...

Stage: (June 1990)

LITTLE ELEPHANTS 'CASINO PARADISE' & 'ASPECTS OF LOVE' When The Phantom of the Opera was new to Broadway, the New York Times (January 28, 1988) asked a number of composers and performers to...

Stage: (May 1990)

STAGE VINTAGE PRODUCTION GALATI'S 'GRAPES OF WRATH' The Grapes of Wrath, Frank Galati's adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel, is three shows in one: a theatrical piece, a gathering of...

Stage (April 1990)

MEETING & MELDING THREE COUPLES There have been several new two-character plays produced recently for limited runs. Each of the three being reviewed here features a couple and deals with love and...

Stage: (April 1990)

STAGE PRYING OPEN THE PAST WELLMAN'S 'CROWBAR' Mac Wellman's Crowbar is the first production I have seen of En Garde Arts, which was founded in 1985 to produce site-specific pieces, often...

Stage: (March 1990)

Stage GERALD WEALES INNOCENCE & RUTHLESSNESS 'SOME AMERICANS ABROAD' In 1986, Theatre Communications Group published Strictly Dishonorable and Other Lost American Plays, four works "selected and...

Stage (March 1990)

STAGE OF MEN & ANGELS 'CITY' & 'A FEW GOOD MEN' Molly Haskell began her recent rumination on movie adaptations of novels (New York Times Book Review, January 28,1990) by conjuring "those two...

Stage (February 1990)

STAGE A LONG WAY TO BROADWAY 'TRAVELER' & 'SQUIRRELS' Marsha Norman's Traveler in the Dark has been a long time making its way to New York. It was first performed at the American Repertory...

Stage: (February 1990)

STAGE BOUND TOGETHIER, HELD APART 'MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!' The New York Theatre Workshop brought Athol Fugard's most recent play, My Children! My Africa!, to the Perry Street Theatre for a...

Stage (January 1990)

STAGE LIFE AFTER FILM 'GRAND HOTEL' & 'ST. LOUIS' When Shenandoah was revived last sum mer, I saw the Gary Geld musical for the first time and spent the evening won dering why anyone...

Stage (January 1990)

SCREEN MYTH & DARKNESS 'MERMAID,' 'TRIUMPH,' & 'CLAUDEL' here have been so many "adult" cartoons recently-Rambo, Rocky, Batman, Ghostbusters-that it is a refreshing shock to get back to the...

Stage: (December 1989)

STAGE FAULTY FAMILIES 'RAPTURE' & 'ANTHONY ROSE' The sound of shotguns can be heard offstage during the final scene of the first act of David Hare's The Secret Rapture playing at the Barrymore...

Stage: (November 1989)

STAGE SHOOTING STARS 'ORPHEUS' & 'BESIDE HERSELF' hen celebrated performers come back to the New York stage, audience expectations lie in wait for them. This is true even when they are doing...

Stage: (October 1989)

SPIRITED REVIVALS 'SWEENEY TODD' & 'PRIVATES' The new Sweeney Todd at the Circle in the Square inevitably lacks the shock and surprise of the original 1979 production of the Stephen Sond-heim-Hugh...

Stage: (September 1989)

STAGE STANDING UP FOR ONE'S OWN GEOGHAN'S 'ONLY KIDDING' Perhaps this is a kinder, gentler America after all. In 1950, Garson Kanin's The Live Wire opened on Broadway; it was about a group of actors...

Stage: (August 1989)

VISITORS FROM ABROAD 'NARCISSE MONDOUX' & 'ARISTOCRATS' Until The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux opened at the Apple Corps Theatre this spring, Gratien Gelinas had not been on a New York stage since...

Stage: (June 1989)

BARGAINING FOR LIVES SOBOL'S 'GHETTO' Joshua Sobol, the Israeli playwright, has a long list of plays to his credit, but very little of his work has appeared in this country. As it happens, both of...

Stage (May 1989)

STAGE PRIZE PROBLEMS 'CHRONICLES' & 'COCKTAIL HOUR' Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles began as a workshop production at the Seattle Repertory Theatre; then, shepherded by the...

Stage: (April 1989)

STAGE A LAND WITHOUT DREAMS 'HANK WILLIAMS' & 'STANDARD' For works so unalike on the surface, Larry L. King's The Night Hank Williams Died and Richard Greenberg's Eastern Standard have a great...

Stage (January 1989)

STAGE COUNTING LOSSES MILNER'S 'CHECKMATES' Don Milner's Checkmates seems too bland a play to have caused controversy, but it stirred up a tiny tempest when it first opened in August-one that...

Stage: (December 1988)

STAGE LAUGHING ON THE OUTSIDE CRAIG LUCAS'S 'RECKLESS' At the beginning of Craig Lucas's Reckless, Rachel is having one of her "euphoria attacks," as she says, babbling away about Christmas, snow,...

Stage: (August 1988)

STAGE UPSIDE-DOWN IN SWEDISH 'HAMLET' & 'MACBETH' Do you understand Bengali?" the manager asked as I entered a theater in New Delhi a few years ago. Full of professional hubris, I...

Stealing Home: (July 1988)

"HEIM" IS WHERE THE HEART IS STEALING HOME Israel Bound and Rebound Haim Chertok Fordham Unversity, $19.95, 295 pp. Gerald Weales Haim Chertok was still Harvey when he turned up in my graduate...

Stage: (June 1988)

STAGE ROUGH DIAMONDS MAMET'S 'SPEED-THE-PLOW In Thomas Morton's Speed the Plough (1800), the most famous character is Mrs. Grundy, whose name became a synonym for British respectability, and she...

Stage: (June 1988)

STAGE ALMOST COMMITTED 'THE ROAD TO MECCA' When Athol Fugard' s The Road to Mecca was first produced at Yale in 1984, it was both stiff (particularly in Tom Aldredge's performances as Marius) and...

Stage: (April 1988)

STAGE MADAME B. FROM PUCCINI TO HWANG In The Dance and the Railroad David Henry Hwang mixed Chinese opera and American history with such imagination and wit that the play established him in 1981...

Stage: (March 1988)

STAGE THE FOREST & THE TREES BLESSING'S 'WALK' My introduction to Lee Blessing's work came in 1986 with the premiere of Eleemosynary at the Philadelphia Festival Theatre of New Plays; it has since...

Stage: (February 1988)

STAGE DIMINISHED CLASSICS 'CHERRY ORCHARD' & 'DREAM' In The Shifting Point, Peter Brook differentiates between a "directorial conception," which is imposed from the outside, and a "sense of...

Stage (January 1988)

STAGE TALES & DRAGONS 'INTO THE WOODS' & 'NIXON IN CHINA' Once upon a time there was a wizard named Bruno Bettelheim who ventured into the dark interior of popular fairy tales in a conscious...

Stage (December 1987)

STAGE ^— SEND IN THE CLOWNS 'FRANKIE,' 'BURN,' & 'DAISY' ¦ used to do too much of the work in my plays," Terrence McNally told the New York Times (October 11); "I was trying to write the...

Stage (November 1987)

STAGE EPIC COMMUNION BROOK'S 'MAHABHARATA' Epics are in love with catalogues, armor, and funerals. The Mahabharata, like The Iliad, chronicles the gathering of forces, providing the lineage...

Stage (November 1987)

STAGE PHILADELPHIA ON PITCH OLIVER SACKS'S 'HAT' The 1987 American Music Theater Festival, which ran in Philadelphia from September 12 to October 11, presented its most ambitious season to...

Stage (May 1987)

320: STAGE BRINGING THE LIGHT 'FENCES' & 'THE COLORED MUSEUM' At the end of August Wilson's Fences, the Maxsons gather for the funeral of Troy, who has dominated the family and the play....

Stage (April 1987)

STAGE COMPANY LOVES MISERY NUNN & CAIRD'S 'LES MISE'RABLES' At the end of Lev Mise'rables, Cosette and Marius, the juvenile leads, crouch center stage, offering each other love and comfort,...

Stage (March 1987)

STAGE A PAIR OF SURVIVORS MILLER'S 'DANGER: MEMORY!' Thhe return of Arthur Miller has been much heralded in the press—see, for instance, Mel Gussow's piece in the New York Times (February 1)—but...

Stage (February 1987)

STACE DOUBLE JEOPARDY GURNETS 'SWEET SUE' Dver since the success of The Dining Room in 1982, A. R. Gurney, Jr. has been circling Broadway, coming closer and closer to the showcase that once...

Stage (January 1987)

STAGE QUESTS & CONSOLATIONS 'THE COMMON PURSUIT' Simon Gray's The Common Pursuit has settled into a comfortable run at the Promenade Theatre. Its success, I assume, has nothing to do with...

Stage: (November 1986)

ciality fits the content perfectly. Always the professional, evil in a brutally powerful, provocative way. Joffe's cool Newman gets by on gusto and bravura, striking smart poses as. camera...

Stage: (September 1986)

vocalize. Some strong minor characters, like the school prin- seldom appeared on the Broadway stage and with minimal cipal (Phillip Bosco) and Martin's mother (Piper Laurie), are success...

Stage (July 1986)

The story involves an uncouth petty hood with a heart of gold goers are there either because they read the enthusiastic and (Bob Hoskins) and an elegant prostitute (Cathy Tyson),...

Stage (June 1986)

trying to save 5 against bad guys trying to kill him, Badham minister's secretary, take off his shirt to show that his broken opens the door to predictably sentimental claptrap. In place of ...

Stage (April 1986)

immigrants in French society, Lustiger (like nearly all French bishops) stands closer, to the political left than to the right. Certainly the far right -- the Lepenistes (followers of Le Pen) and...

Stage (March 1986)

find these questions treated with caritas and brilliant claritas. A "little review" that is both literary and religious has to be prepared to pioneer in each sphere. We soon discovered that...

Stage (February 1986)

Stage GREAT DIVIDE SHEPARD'S 'LIE OF THE MIND' S AM SHEPARD'S new play, A Lie of the Mind, runs for more than four hours, but its length does not herald structural innovation in his drama. He...

DAVID HARE, EXPLORER (December 1985)

Stage NAP READING DAVID HARE, EXPLORER WHEN Mel Gussow wrote his account of David Hare's work in the New York Times Magazine (September 29, 1985), the article was called "Playwright as...

ICEMAN & THE ROPE-DANCERS (November 1985)

Stage UPBEAT, DOWNBEAT ICEMAN & THE ROPE-DANCERS IT IS ALMOST thirty years since the revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh at the old downtown Circle in the Square, a production that...

AIDS ON STAGE (July 1985)

Stage AIDS ON STAGE ADVOCACY & OVATIONS Theater has been generally tired and tepid this year. Yet, more and more often in the last few months, audiences have been responding noisily, whooping...

BIRDS OF A FEATHER (May 1985)

Stage BIRDS OF A FEATHER FARCE AND FAILED COMEDY Uoly ducklings have been turning into swans all over town lately, with varying degrees of aesthetic and commercial success. This transformation,...

FEAR OF LYING (March 1985)

Stage FEAR OF LYING BETRAYAL AS A WAY OF LIFE AT THE END of the play on the night I saw Pack of Lies, the man behind me turned to the woman with him and quoted E.M. Forster's line about hoping he...

MAKING OVERT OVERTURES (February 1985)

8 February 1985: 85 Stage CULTURAL MIXES MAKING OVERT OVERTURES f f #fc NE OF THE THINGS that interested me about Pacific ¦ I Overtures," Stephen Sondheim once said (New %0 York Times, February...

Stage (October 1984)

press his thesis-like symmetry ot;primitive genius and cerebral failure. Hulee, who improves with time, and Abraham, a Broadway veteran, are ably assisted in the film by Jeffrey Jones. As the...

Stage (July 1984)

barrios of the third world. Some of them, we must never forget, gave their lives in sacrifice. My friend, Maura Clarke, and her three martyred companions died as heroes; but I am sure they would...

Stage (May 1984)

though my wife, a few years back, had a small bottle of perfume emptied on her as she made her way to the tram. All weekend the citizens of Warsaw had been in expectation of another incarnation...

Stage (April 1984)

tance was moved to join him. Today he is not much celebrated evan in his own village, and his story is not well known even in the peace movement. We who do know the story of Franz Jaegerstaater,...

Stage: (February 1984)

Stage MEMORIES, HEARTBREAK THREE CONTRASTING PLAYS T HERE IS a moment in C. P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang . . . in which the slightly crippled heroinenarrator is persuaded by her soldier...

Stage (January 1984)

banished from table and the melted-crayon masterpiece she constructed during her exile in the bedroom -- Fanny has always been something of a martinet and the Gardner-Fanny team one that worked...

Stage: (October 1983)

Stage CLASSICS IN CANADA FROM 'CYRANO' TO 'SIMPLETON' ONCE IT WAS possible to visit Canada's celebrated summer theaters-the Stratford Festival and the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake-and see...

Stage: (June 1983)

Stage REALLY 'GOING ON' MARSHA NORMAN'S PULITZER WINNER MARSHA norman once told an interviewer that her subject was "going on." That is an apt description of Getting Out, the play that introduced...

Stage: (April 1983)

Stage BUCK STOPS HERE NEW PLAY FROM RONALD RIBMAN THE DEATH of Tennessee Williams reminds us-as if that were necessary-of how many fine plays he wrote and of how important they were to the...

Stage: (March 1983)

Stage WHATS A FRIEND FOR? GOING TO 'EXTREMITIES' WILLIAM MASTROSIMONE'S Extremities begins with an attempted rape in which the intended victim, a can of bug spray happily at hand, turns the...

Stage: (January 1983)

Stage SHEPARD RIDES AGAIN THE DEVICE IS A SIMPLE ONE AT THE END of the first act of Sam Shepard's True West, the two brothers sit at the table, Lee dictating his ludicrous screenplay to Austin....

Stage: (December 1982)

Stage ANGELS FALL' EPISTLE OF PETER TO NEW MEXICO FATHER WILLIAM DOHERTY-Father Bill to his Indian parishioners-picks up his Bible midway through Lan-ford Wilson's Angels Fall and searches for a...

Stage (November 1982)

Stage TRIUMPH OF THE WORD BETTI ON BROADWAY THERE ARE directors - a noble breed - who put their imaginations to the service of the play they are staging, use their skills to illuminate, to enrich...

Stage (June 1982)

Stage GROWING AWAY FUGARD'S 'MASTER HAROLD' MASTER HAROLD' . . . and the boys, the most overtly autobiographical play Athol Fugard has written, is set in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1950. It...

Stage (April 1982)

Stage GOODBYE TO ALL THAT LOSS IS MORE AT FIRST glance there may seem to be little connection between Amlin Gray's How I Got That Story and A.R. Gurney, Jr.'s The Dining Room - both well-received...

Stage (March 1982)

Stage YES, SORT OF AFTER 'HOGAN'S GOAT,' A 'CURSE' WHEN WILLIAM ALFRED'S last play, Hogan's Goat, appeared in New York, Wilfrid Sheed was doing the theater reviews at this stand; he spoke, with a...

Stage (January 1982)

Stage FR. TIM, SISTER SADE ANGUISH & ANGER Shortly after the phenomenal success of Going My Way in 1944, strangers took to stopping Barry Fitzgerald on the street to tell that Protestant boyo...

Stage (December 1981)

Stage CHINAMAN MAKING SENSE OF THE HYPHEN David henry Hwang, whose first play FOB won an Obie last spring, has two plays running at the Public Theater-The Dance and the Railroad and Family...

Stage: (September 1981)

Stage FLAWED & FASCINATING THREE NEW PLAYS THE FAMILY PLAY HAS been steadily reasserting its primacy in American drama. Two recent examples that have attracted a great deal of attention - both...

Stage: (March 1981)

Stage WAR AGAINST THE TATES 'ZOOMAN AND THE SIGN' A YEAR OR SO ago an incident occurred in Philadelphia, so gratuitously ugly that it caught-at least momentarily-the attention and the sympathy of...

Stage: (February 1981)

FUGARD'S LESSON THE HOPE IS IN THE ART WHEN ATHOLFUGARD came to the end of the experiments in group play-writing of the late 1960s, early 1970s - the years that produced his most direct...

Still Breaking Away: Farce Which Punches Too Hard (November 1980)

Stage STILL BREAKING AWAY FARCE WHICH PUNCHES TOO HARD THE ONLY Steve Tesich play I saw before the movie Breaking Away was Lake of the Woods, which shared stage space at the American Place...

Stage (October 1980)

That crime is, of course, not showing your feelings. That is what Beth is guilty of, so hopelessly guilty that at the end of the movie she is banished to Houston. She is no longer welcome at home in...

Minus the Menace: Pinter's New-Old Hothouse (August 1980)

Stage MINUS THE MENACE PINTER'S NEW-OLD HOTHOUSE HAROLD PiNTER'S latest play, The Hothouse, began at Hampstead, the enterprising London theater which first produced The Elephant Man and which...

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Stage (March 1980)

Stage TALLEY'S FOLLY LANFORD WILSON AS CYCLIST AT HIS DEATH, Eugene O'Neill left unfinished—barely begun—a cycle of plays through which he hoped to illuminate his. sense of America and the...

Pinter's Betrayal: Bringing Back Empathy (March 1980)

Stage PINTER'S BETRAYAL BRINGING BACK EMPATHY BY now it is common knowledge thatBetrayal is a departure of sorts for Harold Pinter. Many of the English reviewers greeted it with regret as a...

Stage (October 1979)

teacherly, I wanted her to pull this story together, perhaps with favored prisoner, the pimp who wants to put her back in some truism about ghetto realities and middle class illusions of ...

The Caricatures of George Cruikshank: (September 1979)

tion, even when God dealt her a second can be redemptive if one does not further prove "that I am not my own grand- tragic hand in the birth of her fourth add to the waste of...

Stage: (June 1979)

the facts have belied the hope. The United Nations Interim Syria wants at least indirect control of Lebanon and the Pales- Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) came into the south in March to ...

The Stage: Tennessee's Waltz (March 1979)

itself impervious to every new DDT developed. No matter...

THE STAGE (September 1978)

WING WALKING THE STAGE Arthur Kopit's Wings is a deceptively simple play. In eighty minutes, played without an intermission, it follows Emily Stilson from her first baffled...

THE STAGE (August 1978)

ONLY CONNECT THE STAGE The traditional revue, that thing of songs and sketches, has pretty much passed away to be replaced by either the musical retrospective of a single artist's work (Side by...

THE STAGE (April 1978)

STRONGER THAN WATER THE STAGE David Mamet's The Water Engine, which opened the new Theater Cabaret at the Public Theater, is a perfect play for a serious theater organization's initiation...

THE STAGE (March 1978)

KEEPING IN TOUCH Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a touching film, literally. It's a film made out of, and for, our touchjHfeely culture—the culture of group therapy and...

THE STAGE (February 1978)

is the case where a perhaps with some m and then at some it finds itself in disthat a married per" sexual request or in considers herself ghts to self-determimore nuanced an>le...

The Stage (July 1977)

sacred community accountable only to ourselves. Unlike their forebears, they are fundamentally one-worlders. Several of the architects of the nuclear bomb had, as is generally known, strong...

The Stage (June 1977)

in the name of the Mother (M//lie), the Daughter (Pinky) and the Holy Ghost (Willie). Amen. COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR. ASHES AND AFTER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE STAGE "An Arresting New...

THE STAGE (March 1977)

increasingly more important. Ironically enough, they can anticipate aid from other haves who will grudgingly make concessions, political and otherwise, simply because they have grown weary of...

THE STAGE (January 1977)

major guerrilla attacks. In one such attack on an arsenal near Buenos Aires last year the guerrillas lost 100 dead, proof not only that it had been a fierce battle indeed but that the guerrillas...

THE VERY HIGH COMEDY OF PHILIP BARRY (August 1976)

THE VERY HIGH COMEDY OF PHILIP BARRY GERALD WEALES THE standard line about Philip Barry when I was in college right after the Second World War was that he was a gifted writer of high comedy...

THE STAGE (July 1976)

DOING SISTER IN THE STAGE In an article in the New York Times [June 15], the story of Milan Stitt's The Runner Stumbles and its eleven-year journey from Yale Drama School script to Broadway...

THE STAGE (May 1976)

THE STAGE The Philadelphia Company, an ambitious young organization with its location in its title, recently staged two one-act plays, early works by David Rabe and Leslie Lee,' who, since they...

THE STAGE (February 1976)

THE STAGE By now anyone within reach of a New York publica-tion knows-vaguely, at least-what Tom Stoppard's Travesties is about. In Richard EUmann's James Joyce, the playwright came across an...

THE STAGE: (December 1975)

THE STAGE Robert Patrick is one of the most prolific of the off-off-Broadway playwrights, but unlike Sam Shepard, say, or Lanford Wilson, he has been unable-at least, until Kennedy's Children-to...

THE STAGE: (April 1975)

HORSE CHOLAR THE STAGE Spontaneous applause in the theater tends to come when an actor is suddenly so good-or at least so startling-that the audience can no longer simply absorb the performance...

THE STAGE: (January 1975)

CREATION NIGHTLY THE STAGE It has been obvious since the early 1960s, when The Blood Knot made its way from Johannesburg to London and New York, that Athol Fugard is a major dramatic talent. He is...

BOOKS: (September 1974)

The Political Stage feeling of pleasure that kept me read- works by participants-Harold Clur- MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN ...

THE STAGE (June 1974)

A Citation from the CPA AT LAST MONTH'S annual convention of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada, meeting in Denver, Colorado, the CPA Board of Directors adopted the...

BOOKS: (April 1974)

but it will come about, as he also implies, only if, or only when, there is an adequate emotional commitment to world citizenship, and that-since it is preeminently the teachers who need teaching,...

THE STAGE (December 1973)

THE STAGE In the program for Boom Boom Room, there is a statement by Joseph Papp, proclaiming, once again, that a theater is only as alive as its playwrights and that the Vivian Beaumont will be...

BOOKS (November 1973)

The Summer Before the Bark DORIS LESSING Knopf, $6.95 The Hothouse by the East River MURIEL SPARK Viking, $5.95 Life Signs JOHANNA DAVIS Atheneum, $5.95 RUTH PRIGOZY Three new novels, by...

The Stage (May 1973)

reversibly divided and separated "into two distinct societies, one rich and one poor, one white and one black." And that will be the beginning of the demise of America as a free and open society....

THE STAGE (April 1973)

WA CHANGE FOR THE BEST O O O O O O O O O O O O O O THE STAGE Once again Broadway stands in debt to the regional theater. Michael Rudman's excellent production of David Storey's The Changing...

THE STAGE (December 1972)

CLICHES IN THE GARDEN THE STAGE It was probably inevitable that Arthur Miller get around to the First Family. He has been heading that way ever since After the Fall, in which Quentin is not so...

THE STAGE (October 1972)

and cash outlays, and $4 billion in tax revenues from imputed rent which the Staff Study did not include) a year, which could then be put to social use. In this regard I find it ironic that I am...

TRE STAGE (May 1972)

purpose of exploiting his particular country; such a closeness risks the agency's tenure in a number of countries. The agency acknowledged at last month's hearings that it prepared, for...

THE STAGE (March 1972)

Join the Associates American journals of opinion have long been dependent on special supporters to bridge the gap between income and expenses--even in the best of times. Commonweal is no...

The Stage (January 1972)

myth to create particularity, makes the movie less than a completely satisfying aesthetic experience. Of course, this discussion has omitted certain cultural questions such as whether small-town...

THE STAGE (December 1971)

ODD MAN OUT Finish your Christmas shopping in the next 2 minutes. THE STAGE Your friends and relatives will thank you . . . _9 For a year o f encounters with writers l i k e Michael...

THE STAGE (January 1971)

FAREWELL PERFORMANCE THE STAGE This is my last theater review for Commonweal. I should end on a high note, perform one last complicated critical feat, shape a small essay of spectacular richness....

THE STAGE (January 1971)

STOREY THEATER THE STAGE Now that David Storey has taken on shape and substance for me, I would like to take another look at This Sporting Life. When I saw Lindsay Anderson's 1963 film, for which...

THE STAGE: (December 1970)

TOY HORSES, DEAD BAT THE STAGE It was one of the articles of faith of the avant-garde during the 1960's that a theatrical experience would be all the richer, realer, more meaningful if the...

THE STAGE (November 1970)

SAME OLD NEW HERO THE STAGE On Tralfamadore, Billy Pilgrim discovered, "books were laid out- in brief clumps of symbols separated by stars"; each clump, the voice explained, "is a brief, urgent...

THE STAGE: (November 1970)

THE STAGE At first glance, Trelawny of the "Wells" seems an unlikely play to find at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. Written in 1898, set in the 1860's, Arthur Wing Pinero's comedy is, on the surface...

THE STAGE (October 1970)

STANDARD BRANDS THE STAGE A playwright's name, like any other standard brand, tells the regular theater-goer what to expect. Read the label on Bruce Jay Friedman: energy, ethnic jokes and the...

THE STAGE: (October 1970)

TWO LADIES THE STAGE In 1960 I passed through Hollywood while A Raisin in the Sun was being filmed and saw the shooting of a scene in Which the patiently suffering wife, so much less flamboyant...

THE STAGE (August 1970)

MEMO TO THE REPS THE STAGE One of the recurrent worries of the more avant regional theaters and repertory groups (even Lincoln Center) is that they will decline into conventionality, become...

THE STAGE (June 1970)

317 BOO! THE STAGE Ghosts are haunting me. A few weeks ago in these pages I complained that Child's Play was like a production of The Innocents with Quint always on stage. Not long after I...

THE STAGE (May 1970)

THE LITTLE SHEPARD THE STAGE Operation Sidewinder would be a great deal easier to talk about if I could dismiss it, as some reviewers did, as the self-indulgence of a precocious child or if I...

THE STAGE (April 1970)

THE STAGE When the opening of Art Buchwald's Sheep on the Runway (at the Helen Hayes) was followed shortly by Jules Feiffer's The White House Murder Case (at the Circle in the Square) several of...

THE STAGE (March 1970)

THE STAGE There are some mild clerical jokes—new dispensation —in Robert Marasco's Child's Play, but the goings-on at St. Charles' School have little to do with the crisis of Catholic education...

THE STAGE (March 1970)

OH, FOR AN HONEST MOTH THE STAGE Just when it looks as though a familiar popular genre is about to die of inanition, one of its kind comes along and—by quality or slickness or...

THE STAGE (February 1970)

STOMP AND SALVATION come, the professional quality of the performance lies not in their...

THE STAGE (January 1970)

SOUR NOTES have only suspected from reading Ribman's play. For all its oddness and...

THE STAGE (January 1970)

their checkbooks and pens following Mitchell's appeal NOT MY TOWN have yet to be told where to mail their anti-crime con- tributions. And suburban housewives all steamed...

The Stage (July 1969)

BEYOND BURLESQUE _9 _9 0 _9 0 0 0 _9 0 _9 0 0 _9 0 THE STAGE Last fall, unbeknownst to the New York theatrical world, Denise Darcel and Mickey Hargitay took to the road in Follies Burlesque...

THE STAGE (July 1969)

The former Can Lao in Thieu's administration and in the Assembly, along with Thieu's encouragement of a resurrected Can Lao Party, caused many Vietnamese to fear that Thieu was trying to recreate...

The Stage (May 1969)

i AM NOT PRINCE HAMLET _9 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 THE STAGE "O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that h i g h l y . . , that neither having...

The Stage (May 1969)

BUCHNERAND BERG _9 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 Topical Reading More than ever in its forty-five years of publication Commonweal supplies its subscribers with highly topical reading....

THE STAGE (May 1969)

a car was it, Mrs. Robinson?" This audiences see only as evidence of Mrs. Robinson's cheapness and furtiveness. Sex in a car becomes synonymous with sneaky sex, with grabbed-for, shameful sex:...

THE STAGE (April 1969)

The road taken Choose Seton Hill and take a step toward self-discovery. We do not dictate. Nor provide easy answers. We do encourage selfreliance. And independent thought. Our graduates are...

THE STAGE (March 1969)

control legislation: it has invited the government to con- tinue the interdiction. Christian Democrats, whatever their personal feelings, are forced to toe the Vatican line, for it is no secret that...

The Stage (March 1969)

Lewis was born in New Orleans in 1900, and he bought his first clarinet for $4 from a pawn shop when he was 10. He started playing professionally when he was 13, and much of his early experience...

The Stage (February 1969)

OFFICE POLITICS _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE STAGE Back in the days when I used to worry about the nature of tragedy and slip off for an occasional cry at a Margaret Sullavan...

BLACK SMOKE FOR HADRIAN VII (February 1969)

THE WOULD-BE POPE FRANCIS L. KUNKEL Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII," a London import now playing on Broadway, is a dramatization of a book of the same name by Frederick William Rolfe, alias...

THE STAGE (January 1969)

ARGOS HURRAH! THE STAGE A 15-year-old friend of mine from Minneapolis, a seasoned actor and theater-goer, warned me not to miss the Minnesota Theatre Company productions of The House of Atreus...

THE STAGE (January 1969)

2001: a Space Odyssey. By far the best science-fiction movie of our times, Stanley Kubrick's spectacular epic is not only an extraordinarily handsome picture, but also a haunting man-in-flight...

The Stage (December 1968)

OH, THAT HENNY YOUNGMAN THE STAGE There are days when I long for the irrelevant theaterm or, at least, for the theater that lets me find my own relevancies. Within a single week in late...

The Stage (December 1968)

Finish your Christmas shopping in the next 2 minutes. Your friends and relatives will thank you . . . _9 For a year of encounters with writers like Harvey Cox, Thomas Merton, Steven V....

The Stage (November 1968)

IN WHITE AMERICA _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 0 0 0 0 0 THE STAGE "It's a bit like Shaw," says James Earl Jones (New York Times, Oct. 5). "It clobbers everybody and, at the same time, wants to say...

The Stage (November 1968)

PEOPLE IN GLASS BOOTHS THE STAGE "If I may state, without offence, you're a character, Mr. Goldman, sir," says the doorman in Robert Shaw's novel, The Man in the Glass Booth. Goldman answers,...

The Stage (October 1968)

BOX SEAT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE STAGE Edward Albee's new play and/or plays, Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, came into New York, burdened with a reputation that set up...

The Stage (October 1968)

THE SEASON OPENS 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 THE STAGE There is a tradition--which I have not bothered to check against the facts that the first play to open on Broadway each fall is...

BOOKS: (August 1968)

BOOKS Chemical and Biological Warfare SEYMOUR M. HERSH Bobbs-Merrill, $7.50 ROBERT KUTTNER Last March, the American public was reminded of the existence of Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW)...

THE ROGART VOGUE (March 1966)

THE BOGART VOGUE Character and cult GERALD WEALES Anyone entangled, emotionally and aesthetically, in the movies of the 1930's and 1940's, as I am, is likely to view with suspicion the...

Books (February 1964)

BOOKS The Private Corridor of Angus Wilson's Mind The Wild Garden. By Angus Wilson. University of California Press. $3.75. by Richard Ohmann LET US suppose that Angus Wilson understands the life...

Books (September 1961)

BOOKS England's Finest Hours on the Television Screen THE TELEVISION PLAYWRIGHT. Selected by Michael Barry. Hill and Wang. 490 pp. $7.95. By GERALD WEALES WE HEAR a great deal these days about...

Reader to Rider (June 1961)

HAGGARD THE VICTORIAN Reader to Rider by GERALD WEALES "O where are you going?" said reader to rider —W. H. Auden. ALL THAT I can remember of the movie version of Rider Haggard's She that I saw...

Box Office and the Muse (September 1959)

parishioners or even a majority are involved in such activity, but a good many of them are, and one gets the impression that a far higher percentage are active than in the typical older...

Unfashionable Optimist (February 1958)

Thornton Wilder's distinction as a playwright is that banality emerges as one kind of truth Unfashionable Optimist by GERALD WEALES T HORNTON WILDER'S recently issued Three Plays* might have...

Books (October 1957)

BOOKS Most Fascinating Case in Modern Times THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT. By Douglas Woodruff. Farrar, Straus. $4.75. THE TICHBORNE IMPOSTOR. By Geddes MacGregor. LipNncott. $3.95. By JAMES...

The World in Thurber's Fables (January 1957)

FIFTEEN-YEAR JOURNEY The World in Thurber's Fables GERALD WEALES JAMES THURBER'S fifteen-year journey from Fables for Our Time (1940) to Further Fables for Our Time* has taken him, as it has taken...

Next Week, "Anne Leete" (October 1956)

HARLEY GRANVILLE-BARKER Next Week, "Ann Leete" GERALD WEALES THIS YEAR there were rumors of a Pinero farce in summer stock. Off-Broadway has given us Hauptmann, Schnitzler, Martinez Sierra within...

Books (July 1956)

BOOKS Learned, Crotchety Account of English Poetry THE CROWNING PRIVILEGE: COLLECTED ESSAYS ON POETRY. By Robert Graves. Doubleday. $5. By GERALD WEALES LIVELY, busy, chattering, Graves...

Books (June 1956)

BOOKS The Dramatic Clash of Great French Churchmen THE ARCHBISHOP AND THE LADY: The Story of F~nelon and Madame Guyon. By Michael de la Bedoyere. Pantheon. $3.50. By MARTIN TURNELL C OUNT...

Books (April 1956)

BOOKS A Perceptive Report on Varied Cultures RED, BLACK, BLOND AND OLIVE. By Edmund Wilson. Oxford. $6.75. By GERALD WEALES p EOPLE who have met Edmund Wilson say that he is a prodigious...

Books (February 1956)

BOOKS The Princess' Fate Was Wiser Than She Liked to Think THE GRAND MADEMOISELLE. By Francis Steegmuller. Farrar, Straus. $3.75. By GERALD WEALES FRANCIS Steegmuller, whose books on Flaubert...

See Venice and Die (December 1955)

MOVIEGOERS AS TOURISTS See Venice and Die GERALD WEALES T HE critical reception of "Summertime," David Lean's film version of "The Time of the Cuckoo," is an indication that more than...

Varieties of Innocence (October 1955)

POETRY AND POLITICS Varieties of Innocence GERALD WEALES T O have moved, as I did a few years age, from a college in Georgia to one near New York is like having moved out of an area of...

Book Reviews (August 1955)

Stories from the Spirit of this Age THE COLLECTED STORIES. By Isaac Babel. Edited and translated by Walter Morison. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. Criterion. $5. By HENRY POPKIN I SAAC...

Books (May 1955)

BOOKS Continuity in Russian Thought THE MIND OF MODERN RUSSIA. Edited by Hans Kohn. Rutgers University Press. $5.50. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON HANS KOHN introduces this book on Russia with a...

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