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Notes from Arden
Springtime for Stalin
Solomonov predicts that the outcome of Putin’s tragic miscalculation will be national humiliation for decades to come – the kind of decentralization that Moscow loathes, as Russia has neither the resources nor the energy to retain its former empire.
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Spring News Roundup: Paul Birchall’s Got It Covered
“. . . Another plaintiff in the AEA lawsuit, Michael A. Shepperd, was just elected to the union’s National Council – yes the same Council that overturned a 2/3 referendum of local membership to preserve the 99-Seat Plan, in April 2015. AEA’s National Council, in its actions, has been largely dismissive of the stated concerns of Los Angeles stage actors over the past two years.” — BY PAUL BIRCHALL
Got It Covered
“In an event that has some theater folks scratching their heads, the Wooster Group, the tremendously creative theater troupe hailing from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, has been prohibited by Samuel French from having critics review their production of Harold Pinter’s The Room when it plays this February at Disney Hall’s REDCAT Theater.” — by PAUL BIRCHALL
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Around Town
“Of course, while Bernstein was sympathetically attuned to the political ramifications of the themes, in the end Candide plays just as aptly as a critique of the persistent sunniness of the American musical (whether Broadway or Hollywood) ostensibly demanded by audiences. ” — by MYRON MEISEL