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...Code. Understanding Shepard's continuing theme is a necessity if the playgoer is to glean what the author's latest play, The Tooth of Crime, is basically about. Currently having its U.S. première at the McWhirter Theater in Princeton, N.J., it features a hero named Hoss (Frank Langella), who is a rock star. He is also a kind of robber baron of the Western freeways. He is a "marker" who scores "kills" and controls cities as fiefs. Hoss also works within a system, never deviating from "the Code." His territory is allotted to him by unseen...
...dissimilarity between Maitland and Butley is that Maitland is so introspectively self-concerned that he reveals his total being, while Butley is relentlessly analytical of other people and utterly blind to himself. This inhibits the playgoer's compassion. Maitland's experiences are a distillation of pain; Butley's, merely a concentrated display of panic. Nonetheless, there is considerable pathos in Butley, for his manic verbal foolery is the despair of a man who cannot afford the respite of silence...
...McGuire). Their old coach (Richard A. Dysart) is a whiplash of a man embalmed in the Vince Lombardi philosophy. But these men have lost the game of life, and in their rasping revelations à la Virginia Woolf and their boozy camaraderie à la The Boys in the Band, the playgoer finds...
...prove to be a major find for the musical theater. Her lyrics for this revue-styled musical are witty and intelligent, her tunes melodiously winning. She is also a marvelously gifted performer who can sing her own numbers as if they were intimate love letters addressed to each playgoer in the house. She helps to make this the kind of show at which you want to blow kisses. T.E.Kalem
While the territory he traverses is not new, Rabe strides across it with such intensity that the playgoer is raptly involved. What Sticks and Bones lacks is size and scope. Rabe is good enough so that he ought to ponder what makes a dramatist an enduring force rather than simply a Geiger counter of his times. The Greeks and the Elizabethans, who deemed men valiant heroes as great as their doom, produced awesome drama. It is the current American fashion to see men as brain-bleached automatons, and our drama has shrunk to precisely those mean, narrow and dispiriting dimensions...