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...Marjorie Garber, a 392-year-old English playwright is of real importance to today’s world. Indeed, even after having written five books on William Shakespeare—most notably one that extensively chronicled all 38 of his plays—Garber, who is a professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, has yet to exhaust the continuing relevance of Shakespeare’s works in contemporary society. Garber’s scholarly project is to emphasize that literature is not a static entity, but rather a dynamic force that can effect change. For instance...
...leukemia, which is something of a family curse. The best donor possibility is, naturally, one of her kin. The trouble is that they are apparently more interested in their own petty feuds than they are in rescuing her. That's especially true of Elizabeth (Anne Consigny), a glum playwright who, several years before, got involved in a lawsuit with her brother Henri (Mathieu Amalric, star of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and the lead villain in the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace). She has effectively banished him from the family circle, which makes him the wild card...
Jason R. Vartikar-McCullough ’11 is not just a triple threat. As an actor, director, playwright, painter, and costume and set designer, he’s a far more multifarious artistic entity. He started his theater career at the age of six with an appearance on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and he was extensively involved in community and professional theater throughout high school. Despite his numerous theatrical accomplishments, Vartikar-McCullough says, “Theater was never my focus; it was always very much visual art.” It?...
...don’t know what I’m doing,” Philip Seymour Hoffman laments quietly to an optimistic, uncomprehending Michelle Williams in “Synecdoche, New York.” Hoffman, a playwright and recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, is in the midst of an existential dilemma over the theater piece he’s fashioning with his prize money. Williams, his dimwitted lead actress-cum-love interest, responds with a mixture of empathy and idiocy: “That’s what’s so refreshing.”From...
...World War II. (It's quintessential Miller, which means quintessential Ibsen: there's no real action, just reaction to the revelation of long-hidden secrets.) Miller's indictment of business ethics and portrait of a family in crisis can seem overwrought, but McBurney's solution is to go the playwright one better; his expressionistic devices imbue the play with tragic universality. The capable cast includes John Lithgow as Joe, Dianne Wiest as his wife, and Patrick Wilson as his adoring, deluded son. But the reason crowds are rushing to see All My Sons is the fourth member of the ensemble...