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Theatre 'Tis Pity She's a Whore at the Loeb this weekend and next

By James M. Lewis  • 

STUART VAUGHAN'S production of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore is intelligent in conception, a bit deficient in acting,


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Theatre Days of the Commune at Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. tonight

By James M. Lewis  • 

THE AMERICAN premiere of Bertolt Brecht's The Days of the Commune is tonight at Sanders, in Cambridge-our own feeble rival


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Death Rituals Loot at the Loeb Ex

By James M. Lewis  • 

HAVE YOU heard of Joe Orton? Tate? Joplin? Hendrix? Separating individual merit from phantasmagoric death-legend is the whole problem in


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The Theatregoer And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little at the Wilbur until February 22

By James M. Lewis  • 

PAUL ZWINDEL with his second play. And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, has accomplished what another quasi-literary rising playwright. Tom


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Films Cromwell at the Pi Alley Theatre

By James M. Lewis  • 

ONE SURE sign of senescence is a pedantic impulse, and Cromwell carries the belabored aging process of the historical film


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Theatre Dirty Hands at the Loob, this weekend and next

By James M. Lewis  • 

THE FLAWS in Loeb productions seems to be something built-in, permanent, like original sin. One would like to write them


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The Moviegoer Something for Everyone At the Harvard Square Theatre through Tuesday

By James M. Lewis  • 

SOMETHING for Everyone follows a predictable fairy-tale formula for its plot: impoverished Countess von Ornstein and her two children are


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The Theatregoer In 3 Zones now at the Charles Playhouse

By James M. Lewis  • 

WILFRED LEACH'S In 3 Zones , now in its world premiere at the Charles Playhouse, is a series of fairy-tale


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The Theatregoer Jack, or The Submission/The Bald Soprano at the Old West Church until Oct. 31

By James M. Lewis  • 

THE HUB THEATRE Centre opens its season with Jack, or The Submission and The Bald Soprano by Ionesco, two plays


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The Theatregoer Hadrian VII at the Colonial Theatre until April 25

By James M. Lewis  • 

PETER LUKE'S Hadrian VII is a mediocre play with one outstanding central character. Structured like The Wizard of Oz, with

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