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...unusual position: his parents have divorced. The rest of his story is a bit more unconventional. His father is living with a new companion named Frank. Kids who turn the pages will learn that the two men live together. They "work together," the text explains. They "eat together." And one other thing. They "sleep together...
...text and pictures in Daddy's Roommate may give off a warm glow, but glowing books can light fuses. The book is on the recommended reading list of a new first-grade curriculum in New York City -- sort of a gay companion to Jack and Jill. And that has led to a bitter fight about when and how to teach children about homosexuality, a question that schools all around the country have begun -- very cautiously -- to confront...
...Randall troupe opened a second season with, as promised, a heartening leap forward. Its staging of The Seagull is imperfect and at times campy, taking too literally Chekhov's admonition that his plays are comedies. But it tells the story beautifully and has several interesting ideas about the text...
...qualities that make her recitals sellout events. Bartoli grabs the audience. She sings with her eyes too. In Rossini, who has lavish comic zest, she courts the phrases and the audience as well. She displays, as Levine says, "an exceptional instrument, personality, grasp of the music and the text and, most of all, the ability to communicate all this...
Director Kaile Shilling locates the play on a riverboat in Dixie. Despite this revision, she chooses to preserve the original text, with all its context, save one or two lines adapted to read "The South" instead of "Messina." This leads to baffling conundrums: where do you find the balconies and gardens on a riverboat? Why are war-weary veterans holidaying on the water with the governor of Messina? What kind of steamer comes complete with a crypt? This hare-brained Steamboat Willie hybrid smacks of direction for direction's sake...