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A man and a woman make ecstatic love. Afterward, the woman offers to make the man a sandwich before booting him out of her studio apartment. He eats the sandwich, but he doesn’t go anywhere. Over three decades after its debut, Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune may seem to possess […]
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On the stage, tree roots are wrapped around old columns, their arches resembling outstretched branches. Brachen used to welcome the likes of Goethe and Brahms; now it is a run-down near-ghost town whose inhabitants haunt its streets with a combination of nervous energy and resignation. But Claire Zachanassian (Chita Rivera), the richest woman in the world […]
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To call Terrence McNally’s delightful And Away We Go a love letter to the theater would be to do it a disservice, since that would be to offer a cliché before a work that is anything but ordinary. Granted, one could easily imagine how this play could go wrong: set backstage, it travels in time […]
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