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The late hatchet-faced British comedian Max Wall used to have a gag where he'd try to speak to the audience only to be interrupted by his pianist. Comment?
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When we first encounter Cate Blanchett as Blanche DuBois in the Sydney Theatre Company's thrilling production of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire" , she is literally backed into a corner, sitting on her small valise at the shadowy edge of the stage. Comment?
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Obituary: Chawley P. Williams / Last surviving member of Centre Ave. Poets' workshop
... drug addiction, or of his past as a numbers runner -- "a digitarian," as he described to the critic and writer John Lahr. The insights from those early years informed not just his writing but a parallel career as a drug and alcohol counselor. He ... Comment?
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John Lahr: Kenneth Lonergana s Everyman.
ABSTRACT: THE THEATRE review of "The Starry Messenger." The writer compares Mark Williams , the lead character of Kenneth Lonergan's new play "The Starry Messenger", to a slow loris, an animal that survives in the jungle by playing dead. Comment?
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John Lahr on the vibrator play
In our pornographic age, it's hard to imagine that there was a time when people were better acquainted with the continent of Africa than with their own bodies. Comment?
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'2012' brings fame in 2009 to Chiwetel Ejiofor
... been acclaimed, including his 2007 turn as Othello in the Donmar Warehouse production in London. Ejiofor, opined John Lahr in The New Yorker, "brings to the character a natural nobility and a decency that are a kind of poetic revelation." The London ... Comment?
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Lucas West End play closes early
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... Lucas had been playing Halliwell in the production, which is based on a 1978 biography of the same name by John Lahr as well as Orton's diaries. "Despite very good feedback and notices for Con O'Neill's performance, the box office sales have not ... Comment?
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the Front Row: The Pajama Game, by Richard Brody
... ains out! It's a form of insanity, I guess." P.P.S. In his review in the magazine of a recent revival of the play, John Lahr recalls seeing the play at the behest of Foy - his godfather. Comment?
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Prick Up Your Ears Posts Early Closing Notice in West End
The current West End production of Simon Bent's Prick Up Your Ears , inspired by the John Lahr biography of playwright Joe Orton and Orton's diaries, is to shutter Nov. Comment?
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Dead Man's Cell Phone opens Nov. 5: Utah premiere held at College of Eastern Utah
... Ruhl. The play comes to the Geary Theatre stage at 7:30 p.m. November 5 through 10 with Sunday dark. According to John Lahr of the New Yorker, Dead Man's Cell Phone "is a meditation on death, love, and disconnection in the digital age." Although ... Comment?
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John Lahr: Patrick Marber updates Strindberg.
Patrick Marber's "After Miss Julie" , a version of August Strindberg's gnarly, pathfinding 1888 tragedy about class division and desire, puts a new engine in an old chassis; the problem is internal combustion. Comment?
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Lahr's Foote, and His Achilles Heel
I've had my issues with him in the past, but when John Lahr is on, no one can touch him. Comment?
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Con O'Neill to Replace Matt Lucas in Prick Up Your Ears, 10/22
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... 2006 and had gotten divorced earlier this year. The play is a dark comedy inspired by Joe Orton 's diaries and the John Lahr biography of the same name. It centers on the relationship between Orton and lover Kenneth Halliwell, which ended in 1967 ... Comment?
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New Yorker's John Lahr Writes About Horton Foote
There's a lovely piece today in this week's The New Yorker by fave theater writer John Lahr on Horton Foote . Comment?
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Prick up Your Ears - Con O'Neill steps in
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... Instead, the role of Kenneth Halliwell will be played by Con O'Neill from October 22. Inspired exclusively by the John Lahr biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, Prick Up Your Ears examines the private lives of two extraordinary men a ' Kenneth ... Comment?
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John Lahr: A heroic a oeHamleta and musings on mortality.
At the finale of the last "Hamlet" to be seen in New York , Fortinbras called for a hero's cannonade to honor the slain Prince of Denmark - "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" - only to have his lieutenant whip out a pistol and shoot Horatio. Comment?
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John Lahr: Nathan Lewis Jacksona s a oeBroke-ology.a
"Broke-ology" , by the talented thirty-yearold African-American playwright Nathan Lewis Jackson, belongs to the now familiar genre of family leave-takings. What Jackson lacks in poetry and in stagecraft he makes up for in compassion. Comment?
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A grieving Lucas leaves Prick Up Your Ears
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... last week following a regional tour which kicked off at Richmond Theatre on August 26. Inspired exclusively by the John Lahr biography and the diaries of Joe Orton, it examines the private lives of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton. Chris New (as ... Comment?
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... why trouble to stage a tale which is also readily available in the brilliant biography of Orton that the critic John Lahr also titled Prick Up Your Ears ? If the play is topical at all, it's presumably as a warning of the damage that can be done by ... Comment?
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What to say about ... Prick Up Your Ears
Matt Lucas, better known as the bald one from Little Britain, moves from sketch show comic to serious stage actor. Comment?
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