And what would the season be without some shenanigans? We'll have con-men extraordinaires in the musical scamfest Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (MSMT, July 15-August1); betting on both horses and women in Guys and Dolls (Ogunquit, July 15-August 8); competing vampy murderesses in Chicago (LEGACY THEATER, July 10-19); and extramarital Parisians in A Little Hotel on the Side (Monmouth, in rep).
Finally, the comedy improv troupe the ESCAPISTS will be alternating misbehavior with role modeling all summer as they perform a monthly Adult Show at the North Star Music Café, on the last Wednesday of every month; and a monthly Family Show at the Children's Museum and Theater of Maine, on each last Saturday.
Megan Grumbling can be reached at mgrumbling@hotmail.com.
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- Gilded stage
In the Theater at Monmouth's Twelfth Night , the Bard's gender-bending foibles play out in a proscenium within a proscenium — or, more strictly speaking, a sound stage within a proscenium:
- A Danish punk
The sad mad Danish prince is probably the most oft-quoted tragic hero in the English language, but he's a lot more than that. He is also, as I was reminded recently by a theater companion encountering him for the first time, pretty exasperating to be around, as well as "kind of a punk."
- Song of ourselves
Do I contradict myself?
- Self singer
“One’s self I sing, a simple separate person. . . . Of physiology from top to toe,” goes one of the Walt Whitman poems set by Rufus Wainwright for Stephen Petronio’s Bloom.
- The great American (office) novel
They are coming regularly now, like buses, like bulletins — the great office novels of the 21st century.
- Don’t shoot the piano players
Twenty years ago, Fred Hersch was known as a talented young jazz pianist and teacher at New England Conservatory.
- A little history
Two of Boston's most admired and honored composers (both Pulitzer winners) have just celebrated landmark birthdays: Yehudi Wyner his 80th and John Harbison his 70th.
- Groundbreakers
As the Huntington Theatre Company mounts Radio Golf , the ghost in the rafters is that of Wilson, who died last October at 60, soon after completing this final piece of his grand project chronicling decade by decade the African-American experience of the last 100 years.
- Senses come alive
Are Jay-Z’s synapses wired to express supreme confidence?
- Demon daze
Hart Crane roared through his short, tormented, and doomed life.
- Graham Greene’s last interview
This article originally appeared in the June 28, 1991 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
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