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Ever since Montgomery tycoon William S. Blount wrote the largest single check ever given to an American theatre, the staff of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival has practiced an efficient routine for impressing those out-of-state visitors who seem to think that the title of the company is a charming oxymoron. If all goes as planned, the…

At the Democratic convention of 1924, throngs of hooded Ku Klux Klansmen (who backed William McAdoo, the southern favorite) and phalanxes of Catholic priests (who supported Alfred E. Smith, the Tammany candidate) stood at opposite ends of Madison Square Garden and howled at one another. The Klan, which had 340 delegates, was powerful enough to…

David Mamet’s new play, Oleanna, is an urgent, upsetting examination of sexual harassment, a subject that has gripped America since the Clarence Thomas hearings. When the play premiered last October in Cambridge, Mass. (produced by Mamet’s own Back Bay Theatre Company in conjunction with the American Repertory Theatre), Mamet was attacked by people on both…

October is the month of that annual rite of Americana, the major league baseball World Series. So perhaps it’s fitting that it’s also the month in which Anthony Clarvoe’s comedy Let’s Play Two is making its debut at southern California’s South Coast Repertory. The new work by the busy, 31-year-old playwright marries the rhythms of…

It is Leningrad high school teacher Elena Sergeyevna’s birthday. Four of her students – three boys and a girl – arrive unexpectedly at her drab little apartment, bearing expensive gifts: a bouquet of flowers, a set of antique crystal goblets, a bottle of champagne. The offerings of grateful young people to a beloved instructor? Not…

In his play ‘An Inspector Calls’ how does Priestley use dramatic devices and language to convey his concerns and sustain the interest of the audience? Priestley wrote the play ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1945. Priestley was a socialist and had the intention of using the play ‘An Inspector Calls’ to broadcast his socialist ideas. He wanted…

The set of this play is under a proscenium arch and as this is a Victorian theatre the curtains rise up instead of going to each side. Especially for this production there is an added bit of stage at the front with twisted, bent floorboards with a trap door in. The bent floorboards represent the…

As just about everyone knows by now, Peter Sellars directed radical productions of Mozart’s three operas to librettos by da Ponte at the Pepsico Summerfare Festival in Purchase, N.Y. during the latter half of the ’80s. Everyone knows about these productions because, by setting The Marriage of Figaro in Trump Tower, Don Giovanni on a…

Sitting in the Citicorp gallery next to Manhattan’s St. Peter’s Church, where she is directing five operas for the multicultural Magic Circle Opera Repertory Company, Alaskan-born theatre artist Jane Lind wears shoulder-length earrings made by a cousin from red bugle beads signifying life, surrounded by black beads for protection. “My people always make sure that…

As you drive north out of Boston on I-93, the changes begin. Skyscrapers fall away; motels and multiplex theatres thin out and are replaced by trees and windswept sky. By the time you reach the two-lane macadam of Route 128 and turn southeast, you might be anywhere in New England. Only when 128 spills into…