All four characters come satisfyingly, mournfully to life in Two River Theater's sensitive current production.
At the jittery nerve center of the play, which opened Tuesday night at the Roundabout Theater Company's Black Box Theater under the sensitive direction of Sam Gold, is an anxious but hopeful 24-year-old woman, Sherry (Halley Feiffer), who has only recently emerged from the cocoon of depression that still entombs her mother and sister.
For example, when everything is turned on and someone decides to do their ironing while watching a blu-ray movie and someone turns on the vacuum in the next room, the power surge could damage the sensitive electronics of the home theater system even before the circuit's fuse or breaker shuts down.
Should there be someone in your life who wishes to pass for Theater-fluent — a sensitive young cousin, perhaps, who fills leisure hours listening to "Gypsy" and looking at bound issues of After Dark instead of playing World of Warcraft — I propose giving him or her the following four-volume Theater Literacy Kit.
The Ballet Theater principal Vladimir Malakhov looks sensitive and troubled, which heightens the drama in ballets like "Le Spectre de la Rose" but dims the luster of "Sleeping Beauty".
"It is the infantry units themselves that should be trained before they go in theater to be culturally sensitive," Atran told the senators.
Spanning the four years from freshman "penance hall" to graduation, the play follows three lovable self-proclaimed "nonconformers": Johnny, a sensitive-macho punk; Ben, a flouncing theater queen; and George, a chubby, hapless army brat.
(Anne Midgette) 'DARKLING' (Tonight and tomorrow night) In an adventurous move, America Opera Projects is presenting the premiere production of "Darkling," a brave and sensitive, if at times frustrating, multimedia music theater work.
Any sensitive theatergoer will tell you that live theater is a completely different experience than watching the same thing on TV or your computer screen.
Faculty members on ASU's Tempe campus, such as theater professor Jeff McMahon, are particularly sensitive to the issue because in 2009 a graduate student committed suicide with a gun while standing in a professor's office.
