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...That small self-indulgence is about the only inside joke in Inspecting Carol, a piece so accessible and hilariously funny that, to Sullivan's surprise, it is also being produced this holiday season by half a dozen other theaters from Alaska to Sag Harbor, New York. At Chicago's Steppenwolf, part of the appeal is poking fun at the rival Goodman Theater's version of A Christmas Carol. At BoarsHead in Lansing, Michigan, Inspecting Carol plays in repertory with the target of its satire. Says Sullivan: "I guess it's becoming a tradition itself. I'm so dumb I never...
ANOTHER TIME. Albert Finney revives his London triumph in Ronald Harwood's drama about a South African pianist as Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe opens a sumptuous new $8 million theater. But the company members, most of them much younger than Finney, are at a loss playing relatives a generation older...
ANOTHER TIME. Albert Finney on Broadway would be event enough, but in Chicago? At the Steppenwolf troupe's new home, he repeats his London triumph in this play by Ronald Harwood (The Dresser) about a South African piano prodigy battling his heritage...
AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE (PBS, March 20, 22). The anthology series opens its 10th season with a double dose of Broadway: Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's musical twist on Grimms' fairy tales, and The Grapes of Wrath, the Steppenwolf Theater's adaptation of Steinbeck's Depression novel...
...following of 42 portable tattoo parlors, for the 50th annual Black Hills Motor Classic. Bikers packed motels as far away as Sundance, Wyo., some 40 miles to the west. For seven days, they turned four blocks of Sturgis' Main Street into chopper gridlock, gathering for rock concerts (Allman Brothers, Steppenwolf, BTO), hill-climbing contests, an amateur female topless contest and motorcycle rodeos. Last year's rally drew 80,000 bikers and produced 2,745 traffic citations, 98 drunk-driving cases, 98 felony drug arrests and 21 accidents that killed three people. This year's visitors were no slouches either. Preliminary...