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...switched gears with a role in Kenneth Branagh's film of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Two years later, while playing Elaine in a Broadway production of The Graduate, Silverstone had dinner with Miss Match creator Darren Star (Sex and the City). "Alicia has the stuff that comediennes of the '30s and '40s had," says Star. "She is very likable, and it comes from a real place." Silverstone was drawn by Star's track record of complex female characters and the appeal of playing someone who "goes around sprinkling love dust on everybody." Indeed...
...should have. Omnium Gatherum, a play by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros that was a hit of the Humana Festival in Louisville, Ky., last spring and just opened off-Broadway, is pretty much a mess as drama--both tendentious and trivial, underplotted and overacted. But it's the most ambitious example yet of a theatrical type that is getting hard to ignore: the post-9/11 play...
Take Craig Wilson's Recent Tragic Events, another off-Broadway arrival, starring Heather Graham as a Minneapolis single woman who has a blind date on the night of Sept. 12. The play wavers between curdled sitcom (the evening is interrupted by a busybody neighbor), witless absurdism (a visit by Joyce Carol Oates--played by a sock puppet) and failed melodrama, as Graham waits for word from her twin sister, who may or may not have been in the towers. Then it all takes off into the stratosphere, with a discourse on free will and determinism, a stage manager's voice...
...artist whose mural for the lobby of the RCA Building--a dreadful kitsch effulgence, by the way--was demolished on Nelson's orders after Rivera slipped in a portrait of Lenin. Okrent is also supremely funny on the subject of S.L. (Roxy) Rothafel, creator of superabundant picture palaces along Broadway, those Moorish-boorish Odeons, who was the man chosen to guide development of Radio City Music Hall. Once he was in the job, fate teamed Roxy with Deskey--Donald Deskey, the great evangel of Art Deco who had won a competition to design the Music Hall. Dedicated to all things...
...somewhat tired—we all know what it’s like to not fit in at high school—but the music and choreography are great. Besides, what could beat a cameo performance by Stephen Sondheim, replete with stretch limo? Only the uproarious reaction of these Broadway babies to his arrival at summer camp...