Their lives are intertwined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman in "Drawn to Death," his first live theater work.
"The Tenth Man" in 1959, a comedy set in an Orthodox synagogue, marked a great leap forward from the easy naturalism of the first Chayefsky theater work, "Middle of the Night," and displayed his gift for picturesque speech and penchant for themes of mysticism.
While Mr. McEwen was getting a master's in arts management at New York University, he was back at the scene of his first theater encounter, working in the box office of the Paper Mill Playhouse.
"Pastime," from 1963, was Ms. Childs's first Judson Dance Theater work.
Lisa Loomer's new play, "Living Out," which opened last night at the Second Stage Theater, works hard to apply sitcom conventions to a two-hour play with serious intentions.
The tracks "The Answer Lies Within", "Sacrificed Sons" and "Octavarium" marked the first time Dream Theater worked with an orchestra, conducted by Jamshied Sharifi (who studied at Berklee College of Music at the same time as Portnoy, Petrucci and bassist John Myung).
By 1938, his first "commercial" music-theater work, which was really a numbers opera, The Cradle Will Rock's second act mainstay was a self-lacerating duet called "Art for Art's Sake" in which a painter and musician do, well, what Blitzstein was taught to do during Tea Time at Curtis.
Eventually, she went into theater work.
("Hedda Gabler," again?) GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS Martha Clarke's landmark dance-theater work, first created in 1984, looked ageless in a revised production at the Minetta Lane Theater.
