Hamletmachine: The Arab Spring; Far Away; Love and Information; The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek; Viva La Mamma!

In her own prolix and pixilated way, Churchill achieves a mastery of economic tone. By contrast, in his immensely satisfying latest play, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, Athol Fugard, perhaps our greatest living playwright, condenses his dramatic gestures beyond the merely epigrammatic into concentrated essences. -- BY MYRON MEISEL

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Don Shirley, Hamlet, Hamletmachine, Inhale Harmonica and Holiday Parties

If we’re motivated by fear rather than a more stoic determination, what then becomes the quality of our lives? If we employ the very tactics used by terrorists, when those very tactics assail the values we hold dear, then what becomes the quality of our lives? --BY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS

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