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That bizarre sequence opens Tonight We Improvise, a play by Luigi Pirandello, adapted and directed by Robert Brustein for his American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. Brustein also plays the impresario advocating auteurism; the cameraman is Frederick Wiseman, renowned for such PBS cinema verite documentaries as Canal Zone and Meat. Their monologues, just serious enough to be plausible -- Brustein actually does believe that directors have as creative a role as writers -- eventually become self-mockingly funny. But the jokes seem to go over the heads of much of the audience; instead of laughing, many spectators stare deadpan as if trying...
Last week city officials announced plans to establish a new coordinating office that would match the needy with shelters and agencies at a cost of about $23,000. The office will use donated space at the former Off The Wall Cinema on Pearl St., which closed early this winter...
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