Roth calls it "her masterpiece", and The Little Red Chairs is just that: a devastating but characteristically insightful, artfully written setting of a fugitive war criminal in rural Ireland, and exploration of his sway over, and way with, a woman, Fidelma McBride, O'Brien's most cogent heroine to date.
Schedule Change Because the baritone Thomas Hampson has influenza, the New York Philharmonic has canceled its performances of "The Wound Dresser," John Adams's setting of a Civil War poem by Walt Whitman, which were to take place at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 tonight, Friday and Saturday and at 7 30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Projected on opposite walls, the 18-minute montage of images and vignettes features two naked, muscular men, one black, the other white, stalking each other with rifles in a shadowy theatrical setting suggestive of a war-torn city.
This secluded maze of roads and trails in the hills above Hollywood has become the setting of something of a war, as residents — who move here to enjoy wild mountain views, high-hedge privacy and coyote sightings — face an influx of tourists in search of a photo of The Sign.
Along with many other questions about the tragedy, some have wondered what Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was doing flying over eastern Ukraine, which has been the setting of a low-intensity war for several months.
With its dramatic cast iron facade and grey concrete interior, this pizzeria feels like the set of a cold war spy flick.
Mr. Scott decided to take the company's critics head-on, setting up a war room of public relations professionals.
He enlisted the likes of Henry A. Kissinger, asked Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany to help and sent a team of officials to set up a war room of sorts on Capitol Hill.
A tour through any state-of-the-art fitness club reveals an arsenal of space-age machines that look like a cross between torture devices and props from the set of a Star Wars movie.
On the set of a Star Wars movie, the director would yell "Action" and I would climb into the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca.
