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Many students may have missed Cramer's reference to Lenin, but they still enjoyed writing about cultural events for the magazine. As its editor, Kaplan planned each issue around an "anchor piece," a feature article about a musician, playwright or somebody in the arts...
Smith, a former Stanford professor of arts and former Bunting fellow at Radcliffe, is a renowned playwright and actress. Her plays--Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992--are unique one-performer shows in which she herself takes on the identities of numerous characters...
Written by Wendy Hammond, a young up-and-rising playwright from the midwest, Julie Johnson is both emotionally challenging and wildly funny. Though it tackles issues ranging from sexual identity to motherhood, from middle-age stagnancy to the isolating effects of technology, the work is most successful as a tale of emotional introspection and human relationships. Though awkward in its moralizing aspirations, the play is elegant in its dealing with interpersonal relationships and personal frustrations of daily existence...
...given all the promotional hype (the show has been trumpeted seemingly since the Ice Age), another mega-disappointment. In fact, it turns out to be a landmark American musical. Doctorow's turn-of-the-century tapestry, mixing fact and fiction, has been expertly refashioned for the stage by playwright Terrence McNally; director Frank Galati has showcased it in a crisp and beautiful production; the score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty gets better with each hearing. And how many musicals have the audience fighting off tears before the end of the first act? The show doesn't arrive on Broadway...
...Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Using court records, newspaper accounts, diaries and other historical documents, writer-director Moises Kaufman re-creates the courtroom battles that destroyed the career (and ultimately the life) of the late-Victorian playwright, wit and homosexual bon vivant. The cleverly stylized history lesson, playing off-Broadway and in San Francisco, is also a poignant study of an artist brought down as much by his own hubris as an intolerant society...