But in terms of a full-length theater piece, it hardly represents the journey from oppression to civil rights.
Better yet, such dramatically analytic probing would be an essential consequence of a protracted setup vainly trying to pass as a full-length theater piece.
This tribute began as a 50-minute benefit performance in New York in 1990 and made its debut as a full-length theater work at the TriArts Sharon Playhouse in Sharon, Conn., two years later.
ANYONE who has seen one of Anna Deavere Smith's full-length theater works — "Fires in the Mirror" or "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" — will have some idea of what to expect at "Let Me Down Easy, " at Long Wharf through Feb. 3.
After the game, they rode the subway together — he to Greenwich Village, she to Brooklyn — talking at length about theater, fossils and hominids.
At Wildcliff, Fleetwood presented full-length productions, theater workshops, free outdoor Shakespeare performances and other programs.
That event, and the OPEC operation, serve as dramatic centerpieces in Assayas's movie, a three-part miniseries broadcast on French television last spring and then released, at more conventional feature length, in theaters in France over the summer.
Valerie Norman's VanDance troupe collaborates with Bruce Ornstein's Acting Workshop in "?," a full-length dance-theater piece that explores the realities of everyday life and performance.
When DVD was new, "T2," a sequel starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a machine man dispatched from the future to rescue a little boy destined to save mankind, was issued at its original theater length.
When I saw the film for a second time recently, at the Quad Cinema in New York City, a line for the sold-out screening extended the length of the theater lobby.
Edison patented a synchronization system connecting a projector and a phonograph, located behind the screen, via an assembly of three rigid shafts a vertical one descending from each device, joined by a third running horizontally the entire length of the theater, beneath the floor.
