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Articles
New play premieres and more
Linda Lavin over the top as "Allergist's Wife"/Nicky Silver's Flaky "Altruists"/Club Kid Killers in "Hologram Theory"/Sex Scandal in "Waste"/Cherry Jones Triumphs in "Moon for the Misbegotten"/Macy Dazzles in "American Buffalo"/Role-Switching in "True West"/Dynamic Irish Dancing/Making "Contact" at Lincoln Center/"Squonk" Sings/History Explodes in "Big Bang"/White Rappers in "Bombitty of Errors"/Salzburg's Mozart Puppets/Devilish Sam Ramey at the Met/Von Stade as "Merry Widow"/Kurt Weill's Forgotten Opera at BAM/Gertrude Stein & Susan B. Anthony at City Opera/No Reservations about "Fully Committed."

Oregonian Bard
Oregon Shakespeare Festival/America's First Elizabethan Stage/"Othello"/"Much Ado"/"Henry IV/Part II"/"Three Musketeers"/"Rosmersholm"/"The Good Person of Szechuan"/"Seven Guitars"/"El Paso Blue"/Shakespeare South of the Border

March roundup
Tom Stopppard's "Invention of Love"/Bayard Rustin's Sex-Life/Hirson's "Wrong Mountain" of Rage/Steamed "Lobster Alice"/Karin Coonrod Crowns "King John"/Chem Lab "Alchemist"/One-Armed "Arms and the Man"/Two Irish Dramatic Fantasies/Mae West's "Sex"/Mae West as "Dirty Blonde"/Bookless "Swing"/English-Yiddish Musical—"Glückel"/Fred Nietzsche & Richard Foreman—Two "Bad Boys"/Schumann's "Need Cantata" at Theater for the New City

by Glenn Loney
Jackie Mason's "Much Ado"/"Amadeus" Revived & Revised/Joyous "Kiss Me, Kate"/James Joyce's Walken "Dead"/Frenzied "Saturday Night Fever"/Food for Thought in "Dinner with Friends."

Dublin Festival
Family Drama at the Dublin Theatre Festival/The Abbey—Ireland's National Theatre/World War II in "Dolly West's Kitchen"/Violence and Suicide in "The Map Maker's Sorrow"/Farce and Fear in "The Spirit of Annie Ross"/Dublin as Celtic Tiger "Boomtown"/Jane Eyre's Libido Unleashed/"Cloudstreet" 5-Hour Marathon/Gersher Theatre's Pre-Israel "Village"/60 Shows on the Fringe/Picasso's Cubism in 3-D.

Oh, for an Irish Opera!
Irish Opera Oxymoronic?/Rescuing Forgotten Operas/Karl Goldmark's "Queen of Sheba"/Umberto Giordano's "Siberia"/Stanislaw Moniuszko's "Haunted Manor"/Condensed Operas

Morgan le Fay
Who Was Morgan le Fay? Was She a Witch? Or an Early Frustrated Feminist? Answers in Gilgamesh's "Between the Mysts."

Autumn in New York
"Cats" Forever/Rossini's "Viaggio" Revived/Handel's City Opera "Ariodante"/Martha Clark Meets Chekhov/Dynamic Kats & Kings/Buck-Naked Singers/Buddy Holly in Philly/"Tale of Two Cities"—slightly abridged/Tom Stoppard at Cocteau/Stripped-down "Streetcar"/Judith Ivey "…in the Dark"/French Ruins at LaMaMa/Kamikaze Pilots at APT/John Ruskin & "The Countess"/Hilarious "Thwack"/Bathroom Humor at PS 122.

London Diary 1999
London Bank Holiday Shows/Long-Running West End Musicals/Lloyd Webber's "Whistle Down the Wind"/The Play's No Longer "The Thing/Atomic Physics in Frayn's "Copenhagen"/Bankside Globe Theatre Sam Wanamaker's Memorial/Elizabethan Rose Theatre Ruins Open/Interactive "Comedy of Errors"/Mark Rylance Globe Cleopatra.

Edinburgh Diary 1999
Four Edinburgh Festivals/New HUB Club/"Speculators": John Law in France, 1720/Barcelona's "The Meeting"/Gloom & Doom in Dramas/Marathon Krakow "Sleepwalkers"/"The Wake" from Dublin's Abbey/Bunkamura "Turandot"/Mod Mad "Giselle"/ENNIO and His Cut-Out Costumes/"Eleanor of Acquitaine"/1000 Years in 100 Minutes—"Complete Millennium Musical"/Young Vic's "Arabian Nights"/Adolf Hitler Speaks/The God That Failed—"Juju Girl"/Gogomagogs' Gobbledygook/Anal Male Rape on Stage in "Drummers"/Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Mom's Comedy—"Whisperers"/Baltic "Werewolves" with Scots Accents.

Baden-Baden Diary 1999
Baden-Baden Fest Survives/Kurhaus Casino/New Kirov and Bayreuth Lohengrins/Nuremberg's 950th Birthday/Millennium RING/Wagnerian Succession/Berlin's New Musical Theatre/Disney Premieres in Berlin/Hunchback-Glockner von Notre Dame/Weimar Europe's Culture City 1999.

Bregenz Diary 1999
Bregenz—Festival with a Theme/Unmasking A Masked Ball/Second World Premier of Greek Passion/New Bregenz Fringe Festival/Rimsky-Korsakov's Golden Cockerel Next Summer.

Munich Diary 1999
Innovative Munich Festival/Orfeo in a Taverna/Lohengrin Swan-Song/Jonathan Miller's Anna Bolena//Dockside Otello/Gun-Control for Freischütz/Bottom in a Ballet/Bohème in a Loft/Urfaust Rituals/Bavarian Amphitryon/Redneck Trailer-Court Streetcar/Zorba the Cat.

Salzburg Diary 1999
Salzburg Splendors/Innovative Salzburg Festival/Startling Artistic Squabbles/Gerard Mortier Departs 2001/Short-List for New Festival Director/Updating Rameau's Boréades/Circus Version of Magic-Flute/Busoni's Doktor Faust/Marathon Shakespeare Schlachten/Italian Fascist Don Giovanni/Zeitfluss New Music/Norrington & Schumann at Mozarteum/Salzburg Marionettes Coming To New York/New Classical CDs.

Philadelphia Theatre Fest
Philadelphia Theatre Fest/Dr. Barnes' French Impressionists/New Avenue of the Arts/Walnut Street Theatre "Grand Hotel"/"Violet" Premieres in Philly/New Hal Prince Music Theatre/Powerful Minimalist "Lebensraum"/Alma Cuervo as Leenane's "Beauty Queen"/Morpheus Descending at Wilma/David Strathairn in the Boonies/Irish Wake on Society Hill/Historical Hedgerow Theatre/Millennial "Noah"

Vegas Vacation
Vegas Vacation/Giant Fremont Street Sound & Light Show/Droughtless Sahara/Gambling as Entertainment/See Europe on the Vegas Strip/Master Magician Lance Burton/Riviera Women Exposed & Concealed/"Crazy Girls" Go Crazy/Drag-Queen Joan Rivers

Joy Luck Club and others
Epic "Cider House Rules"/"Joy Luck Club" on Stage/Ireland's "Lonesome West"/Irish "Lime Tree Bower"/Guare's "Lake Hollywood"/Lesbian "Lips"/Sex for Six "After Midnight"/Toby Stephens Twinned in "Ring Round the Moon"/New Second Stage "Championship"/Coleman's Contempt of Court/Cuban Dreams at American Place/"Count Ory" in Drag/"Elijah" in St. Ignatius/Culture Politics in Europe

Late Spring Roundup
Roundabout at the Selwyn/Michael Billington on Broadway/Natasha & Rupert in "Closer"/Dame Judy Dench on View/Weird "Weir"/Fecal "Censor"/Avignon's "Le Cid"/O'Casey's "Gunman"/Spacey's "Iceman"/Juilliard in the Woods/Gurney's "Far East"/Women's Project "Universe"/Southern Discomfort with "English Teachers"/Cherry Jones Searches/Lisa Kron's "2.5 Minute Ride"/Fighting "The Civil War"/Civil War Songs in "Reunion"/Gershwin Rhythms/Mark Lamos & "Mme. Butterfly"/Sian as "Marlene"/Princess Di Sings!/Dancing Flaubert/Hitchcock at MoMA/Goethe & Weimar's Culture Year/Golden Tower in Tivoli

The Humana Festival 1999
Humana Festival No. 23/Michael Graves' Louisville Masterpiece/"God's Man in Texas"/Arthur Kopit's "Y2K"/Anne Bogart's "Cabin Pressure"/"The Cockfighter"/"Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls"/Ten-Minute Plays/Car Plays/Phone Plays/T-Shirt Plays/Lanford Wilson Wins ATCA Award/Ming Cho Lee Regrets "K2."

Betty to Swoozie to "Salesman"
Helen Hayes Demolished/Betty Buckley in Vein of Silver/Peter Popo Becomes Gay Pope/"Snakebit" Has Fangs/Swoosie Kurtz as Twins in Mineola/Devilish "Chemistry"/Reagan-Era Druggies/Gay Teen Love in "Beautiful Thing"/Pinter's "Hothouse"/Arthur Miller's "Salesman" Returns/Uma Thurman & Roger Rees/Frenzied "Fosse"/Rocking "Bright Lights Big City"/Treat Williams on Deck/Frank Rich on Internet/Best Ever "Forbidden Broadway"/Mahler Songs Staged/Henry Purcell at BAM/Puppet "Rusalka" Animated at LaMaMa.

Livent to Fugard
Lyric Facade at Livent/Trio at the Met Opera/Caryl Churchill at BAM/Pinter's "Ashes"/Hyperactive "High Life"/"Charlie Brown" Resurrected/Asian-Americans "Making Tracks"/Black Vaudeville on the TOBA Circuit/Wooster Group's "HOUSE/LIGHTS"/Athol Fugard Remembers in "Captain's Tiger"/James Naughton at the Promenade/Berkeley Rep's "Collected Stories"/San Francisco's Z Space Studio

Diana Rigg to Uta Hagen, with a stop at Joe's Pub
Action on New 42/Diana Rigg at BAM/T. S. Eliot on Washington Square/Isherwood's Prater Violet/Uta Hagen's Seniority/Hagen in Collected Stories/Richard Foreman's Hotel Paradise/Kornbluth's Jewish Ben Franklin/Sex at Joe's Pub/Lysistrata Sings at the Beckett/Moondrunk John Kelly at New Victory


From Nicole Kidman to Zoë Wanamaker
Nicole Kidman's Blue Room/Paul Rudnick's Adam & Steve/Stop Kiss at the Public/Electrifying Electra/Turturro & Godot/John Guare's Neglected Bosoms/Grimm German Tales/Tilly Losch at DUMBO/Hal Prince's Parade/Glass & Wilson's Monsters/Cathy Rigby-Pan Flies Again/On the Town Inside/Jews & Jesus at La MaMa.




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