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Critics' Voices
THEATER
PRAVDA. A stinging British satire of Murdochian media moguls more
concerned with money than truth gets its U.S. premiere from the
Guthrie troupe in Minneapolis.
January 16, 1989
THE HEIDI CHRONICLES. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein revisits the rise
and fall of principle among baby boomers, and star Joan Allen makes
the stereotypes come touchingly alive, off-Broadway.
January 16, 1989
BLACK AND BLUE. Three great singers, two dozen top dancers, 28
bluesy numbers and a zillion sequins add up to Broadway's hot new
musical revue.
February 27, 1989
SHIRLEY VALENTINE. Pauline Collins (Upstairs, Downstairs) brings to
Broadway the funny and poignant performance that won her London's
version of the Tony as a discontented housewife breaking free.
March 6, 1989
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. Not much is new in this off-Broadway tale of
an old family company menaced by corporate raiders, but the acting is
superb, especially by Mercedes Ruehl (Married to the Mob).
March 6, 1989
MASTERGATE. Larry Gelbart, creator of TV's M * A * S * H, savagely
spoofs Ollie North and Iran-contra at Harvard's American Rep.
March 27, 1989
LARGELY NEW YORK. Lanky, limber Bill Irwin, silent in this 70-minute
Broadway sketchbook, owes much to Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau,
but gags about man's obsessive relations with machines still work in
a Walkman world.
May 22, 1989
THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Grittier than the movie, as panoramic as
Steinbeck's novel, this 35-actor adaptation by Chicago's Steppenwolf
troupe lights up the La Jolla Playhouse stage on the way to a late
June run at London's National Theater.
June 12, 1989
THE LISBON TRAVIATA. Terrence McNally's homosexual tragicomedy
features opera, violence and a terrific cast of off-Broadway
veterans.
June 26, 1989
THE ROAD TO MECCA. South African Athol Fugard directs and stars in
his masterly drama of the artist as outsider, at Washington's Kennedy
Center.
LOVE LETTERS. On a bare stage, an actor and an actress read aloud,
capturing in two hours the rich decades of two lives. A cast that
changes every week (scheduled: Colleen Dewhurst, Jason Robards and
Kate Nelligan) graces A.R. Gurney's wry off-Broadway play.
September 11, 1989
THE COCKTAIL HOUR. Nancy Marchand's sozzled, sardonic portrayal of a
grande dame enriches A.R. Gurney's Wasp family tale at Washington's
Kennedy Center.
September 25, 1989
LES MISERABLES. Tours often look tatty compared with the Broadway
originals, but that's far from true of the glistening and passionate
company now installed in Detroit. Notable among a solid cast are J.
Mark McVey as Jean Valjean and the locally recruited children.
October 2, 1989
BROTHERS AND SISTERS. The most acclaimed Soviet stage work since
World War II, this two-part epic from Leningrad depicts Stalin's
abuse of the rural millions. In Russian, with simultaneous
translation through earphones, at San Diego's Old Globe.
November 6, 1989
THE SECRET RAPTURE. There's no tragic flaw in the central character
of David Hare's crisply phrased and staged Broadway drama--she's just
a victim of Thatcher-era British greed, selfishness and lack of
principle. Thus there's no real tension or interest in this
diatribe, which judges everyone's morality by his or her politics.
November 20, 1989
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Dustin Hoffman plays Shylock, warts and
all, in a shimmering Broadway production transferred intact from a
sold-out London run. A tough ticket worth every penny and every
minute of the wait.
November 27, 1989
THE PIANO LESSON. August Wilson's Broadway-bound drama, at
Washington's Kennedy Center, is the finest work yet from the foremost
active American playwright, a heartrending family debate over how to
deal with the legacy of slavery.
December 11, 1989