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July 25, 2003
Elsewhere
It takes a lot to get a curtain up, most of which is invisible to the audience. Richard Brookhiser, a writer not normally known for his theater criticism, got a peek way behind the scenes one evening and came away with this lovely, precisely evocative piece about a part of the process that civilians never get to see:The theaters of Broadway, given over to spectacle-hungry suburbanites and gay aficionados of musicals, are several blocks, and quantum levels of success, away. We are in the shadow of the Port Authority bus terminal, among the small venues sustained by public subsidy and cheap production values, where dreams and talents are tried out: Broadway's back offices, television's sweatshops, the Bangalore outsourcing of Hollywood. Tonight's performance is a reading of a new play....
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A Fool in the Forest has noticed that some very strange names are popping up in the ad campaign for the movie Masked and Anonymous--including Andrew Motion, England's poet laureate. Say what?
Modern Art Notes has absolutely had it with impressionism.
Posted July 25, 2003 12:02 PM
