Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps its most remarkable attainment is that the premise and structure, which sound inordinately egghead when described, are easy to grasp in performance. The action begins with the detective (James Naughton), a rumpled knight of the tenderloin who lives by a code of honor in a world of thugs and well-heeled thieves. Moments later the story shifts to the office (coyly labeled a "cell") where his creator labors as a hireling of a movie tycoon more crass, smug and fascinatingly awful than any envisioned by Nathanael West. As the tycoon (Rene Auberjonois) lays down the law (no social criticism...
...strong proponent of international play," Harvard coach Bill Cleary said. "Facing any foreign team is a good thing for us, but facing a team of this caliber is especially valuable because it really challenges us to perform...
This play depends on the relationships between its characters; once again Hill and his cast meet the challenge of Miller's script and perform beautifully. A little thing like timing here takes on crucial importance, and family fights in this production are so well choreographed that they not only convince but wholly absorb the audience...
...concert at Sanders Theater, HRO will perform "Hour of the Soul," composed by Sofia Gubaidulina, who has won praise throughout the Soviet Union for her symphony and 50-odd ballets, scores and concertos...
...Rifkin's performance, which he delivers on average 90 times a year, is a mixture of Jimmy Swaggart, Phil Donahue and Werner Erhard. Twenty years of teaching, preaching and raising consciences -- some would call it rabble- rousing -- have refined this show to the point that it has a slick, thoroughly professional sheen. Rifkin moves through an audience as if it were his private party, talking, interviewing, questioning and, occasionally but ever so kindly, embarrassing. He will perform for 30 minutes or eight hours, depending on the contract. His basic sermon is an attack on "the Boys," as he calls Francis...