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Equus. a fine production of Peter Shaffer's powerful exploration of madness. Also the longest-running show in Boston this year--it's run has been extended umpteen times already, but it probably won't be extended again, so get tickets while you can. At the Wilbur Theatre, 252 Tremont St., through February 21. Performances every evening at 8 p.m., matinees Wednesday and Saturday...
Seedy Cineasts. Occasionally Disch eschews eeriness and plays it straight-with a twist. The Joycelin Schranger Story is both a witty send-up of seedy Manhattan cineasts and the disconcerting tale of a projectionist trapped in a laughably bad movie. Getting Into Death, the collection's longest and best story, follows a writer through the last weeks of her fatal illness. On paper she is two writers: Cassandra Knye, a successful purveyor of gothic romances, and B.C. Millar, author of esoteric murder mysteries. Chain-smoking cigarettes and wisecracking with a stream of hospital visitors, she searches stoically among...
...handful of Americans, will be hurtling down the fall line in a battle for alpine skiing supremacy. Through the neighboring valleys and forests, Scandinavians, East Germans, and Russians will be straining to win the cross-country marathons, while overhead Austrians, Finns and Swiss try to fight gravity for the longest ski jump. On the icy, twisting bobsled and luge chute, Italians, Swiss, West and East German daredevils will be approaching the speed of insanity...
...script of Save the Tiger, Jack Lemmon's Oscar-winning vehicle of two years back. Like Lemmon, Reynolds is forced to reminisce fondly about the putative glories of eras past-ballplayers, bands, movies-and wrestle with a numbing dose of angst. Although Director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard) does all he can to enliven this turgid material with sleazy jokes, low-down sex and a little violence, he cannot manage to stifle Shagan's sermon. Aldrich is like a kid passing around a dirty magazine while the preacher drones on from the pulpit above...
...brains of her two famous detectives, M. Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. In addition, Agatha Christie had already given away millions to her family. Her only grandson, Mathew Prichard, 32, was eight years old when she presented him with sole rights to The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play...