Sarah L. Mcvity
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Critics Pan Alfred Play
"The Curse of an Aching Heart," a play by William Alfred, Keenan Jr. Professor of English, opened Saturday night at
A Revitalized 'Death'
A RTHUR MILLER'S DEATH OF A SALESMAN evokes the same sort of feelings as the stinking down-and-out crazies in a
Get Punched
I F QUENTIN CRISP and Donald Carroll had lived in the 14th century, they might have practiced alchemy. As 20th
Valley of the Shadow
T HERE'S lots of jumping around in Godspell --lots of energy and exuberance. As the show builds up momentum, the
A Portrait of the Art Student
In Munich, artists go to the Cafe Grossenvahn. So do the musicians, poets, actors, homosexuals, and foreigners. The regulars all
A Malapropism
A LONG TIME AGO , when Moliere first tried to produce Tartuffe , censors threatened to squeeze all the genius
Fluffy But Filling
S TEPHEN SONDHEIM is the El Cid of the musical theater. He oversteps bounds, and the audience excuses him because
Unworldly Knowledge
I N THE OPENING SCENE of Doctor Faustus, John Faustus boldly adopts a course that will allow him to live
Mamet's Minimums
M INIMALISM is the reduction to the essential. In theatre, the minimalist sifts through the rubbish heap of human existence,
High Liebling
A S A RECENT food critic himself for The New York Times, it is exactly fitting that Ray Sokolov '63