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A Dream Garden

A poet's death is given grand life by the Houston Ballet

By Ann Walton Sieber
Feb 29, 1996

In 1936, when Spain's Francisco Franco invaded his own country "to save it from itself," one of the pollutant forces he saw fit to extinguish was the poet Federico Garca Lorca. "He was killed because he was a Red queer," one of the drivers who, in August 1936, took Lorca...
A Sound of Hovering Wings

Angels in America arrives buoyed by hype, but rises on its own power

By Ann Walton Sieber
Apr 6, 1995

Throughout Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches -- the first part of a seven-hour drama of love, sex, politics and the spirit -- the most consistent story line comes through a series of progressively majestic pronouncements of the approach of a mysterious angel, whose eventual arrival marks the end...
Playing It for Laughs

The Alley's Arms and the Man has Shaw's humor, but not his tears

By Ann Walton Sieber
Mar 30, 1995

When George Bernard Shaw wrote Arms and the Man in 1894, he was known as an arts critic and revolutionary rather than as a dramatist. However, in his railing against the hypocrisy of Victorian theater, Shaw saw that if he wanted something better, he'd best write it himself -- thus...
Low Comedy, High Fun

Stages takes a gamble with the Marx Brothers, and rolls a winner

By Ann Walton Sieber
Mar 9, 1995

When Stages decided to stage the Marx Brothers' The Cocoanuts, what were they thinking? Why court disaster by staging a show that's so obviously and consummately been done already? An actor can't very well reinterpret Groucho or Harpo; he can only aspire to doing a laudable imitation, at best be...
Tall Tales

Edward Albee's Three Tall Women makes one fine play

By Ann Walton Sieber
Feb 23, 1995

Dream state number one: you're 92, have had a stroke, and travel back in time to converse with your former selves. Dream state number two: you're 26 and are visited by your future selves, who can tell you how your life is going to unfold. Dream quandary: suppose your younger...

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