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(04/22/03 4:00am)
More and more, I have the suspicion that "dysfunctional family" is redundant. The only "normal" families I know are the ones I don't know well. One can lament this situation -- and, perhaps, the psychotherapy industry that profits from it. But one can also celebrate it as a source of rich artistic potential. Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," playing at Live Arts through May 3, does just that, with ominous echoes of Flannery O'Connor's famous claim that, "If we survive our childhoods, we have enough material to last a lifetime."
(01/21/03 5:00am)
Sometimes we look back to look forward. When we do, we look back through a tinted lens. This spirit of guarded nostalgia, caught between joyful reminiscence and bitter memory, frames Eugene O'Neill's "Ah, Wilderness," at Live Arts now through Feb. 8.
(11/19/02 5:00am)
Imagine a time of madness, gin and jazz. "The Wild Party," running through Dec. 14 at Live Arts, can take you there -- just make sure your glass is full, your clothes sharp and your feet fast. The play is a joyous romp, but it also has the subtle bite of tragic insight lurking just beneath the surface.
(09/17/02 4:00am)
Before you learn anything else, you'd better learn Grandma's rules. No playing in the house. No feet on the sofa. No weakness. Above all, no crying.
(07/18/02 4:00am)
It's all in the execution, or so they say. David Auburn's "Proof," the most anticipated play in Heritage Repertory Theatre's summer season, can be thankful for that. HRT has done an impressive job of staging this much-hyped, Pulitzer Prize-winning play, despite the fact that Auburn's script is thinner than the play's critical acclaim might suggest.
(07/11/02 4:00am)
It's not quite round-the-clock theater, but it comes close.
(06/20/02 4:00am)
Do six plays in seven weeks sound hectic to you?
(06/13/02 4:00am)
Pick the term that does not belong with the others: caves, Kentucky, overalls, fiddles, moonshine, musical theater. The last one, right? Perhaps not. Live Arts' last production of the 2001-2002 season, Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's "Floyd Collins" draws on the true story of Collins, a spelunker and entrepreneur who lay trapped for 18 days in February 1925 in a Kentucky cave before dying inside. His predicament sparked what many regard as the first modern media circus of on-site news coverage.
(04/23/02 4:00am)
To get in the mood for the sticky summer nights ahead, make your way down to Live Arts for Tennessee Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," which runs through May 11. In the heat, blood boils, tempers flare and lies flow as freely as liquor.
(04/16/02 4:00am)
Welcome to Berlin, where everyone is beautiful. Sit back and enjoy.
(04/16/02 4:00am)
Step outside yourself and come inside - inside the ruptured consciousness of Shakespeare
(04/09/02 4:00am)
Spring, as they say, is the season of love. Shakespeare on the Lawn's upcoming production of "Much Ado About Nothing" gives us a little of both.
(03/19/02 5:00am)
One thing is clear from the moment you hit the door: you're not in Kansas anymore. This show has too much funk for there to be any doubt.
(02/26/02 5:00am)
Plays about a play have been a favorite medium for nearly as long as theater has existed. The Drama Department's production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's "Our Country's Good," showing in the Culbreth Theatre at 8 p.m. this Wednesday through Saturday, continues this tradition.
(02/12/02 5:00am)
How well do you know your vagina? Do you talk to it often? Is it an integral part of you, your life, your identity?
(02/05/02 5:00am)
We like to think we're immune from pop culture, or at least that we can choose to be. It might saturate our surroundings, but we don't have to let it affect us, right? Wrong, says the cast of "Attemptonmylife," a uniquely original dramatic ensemble piece that opens Thursday at the Helms. Director Kate Porter, a fourth-year College student, leads a group of 10 students in this unsettling and thought-provoking exploration of the similarities between literal madness and the overpoweringly maddening effects of mass culture.
(01/23/02 5:00am)
GOOD IDEAS typically require both money and interest to become realities. In the case of undergraduate research, commitment and interest is leaps and bounds ahead of funding. The University should take proactive steps to finance undergraduate research and make it a priority, even in this time of tight educational budgets, by focusing on private donors.
(01/22/02 5:00am)
This play wants you to think about sex. Every type of sex, it seems, between nearly every conceivable combination of people. Live Arts' production of Caryl Churchill's "Cloud 9" challenges the audience's comfort zones, boundaries of propriety and, most of all, its endurance.
(01/17/02 5:00am)
THE GAP is still there, yawning wide. Considerable distance remains between the privileged and the disadvantaged. Education has the power to close that gap, to give the disadvantaged the tools to improve their lives. But a recent study suggests that the gap is widening in education as well, threatening to deny minority groups the chance to achieve. If we care about diversity at all, as an ideal or even as a mere means to economic success, we must take steps to correct the imbalance by funding programs that increase educational opportunities for minorities.
(11/28/01 5:00am)
MOST OF us would celebrate if we could wave a magic wand and eliminate grades. It would be nice if grades weren't necessary - if everyone had equal abilities and always gave 100 percent effort. But those things aren't true; grades are necessary.