A Polish "Dybbuk," a German Ibsen and two British companies are among the highlights of the theater-heavy offerings this fall at the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music has organized a particularly theater-heavy line-up for its spring 2011 season, including a Donmar Warehouse production of "King Lear" starring Derek Jacobi; the Abbey Theater's staging of Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," with Alan Rickman and Fiona Shaw; and an Australian mounting of Gogol's "Diary of a Madman" starring Geoffrey Rush.
The theater's heavy reliance on revivals sometimes feels like a steady diet of disillusionment.
8. Sivasli Istanbul Yazmaci In this shop in the Grand Bazaar, rectangles of Turkish fabric are piled up to the ceiling and spill over onto every surface: gauzy silks as thin as a sigh, vintage scarves embroidered with metallic thread, brilliant flower-printed cottons.... Don't miss the theater costumes: heavy tunics and ballooning trousers in Barbie-doll pink.
The theater sustained heavy damage.
So do things like that Punch-and-Judy theater and a heavy scalloped curtain that falls and rises at the start.
Congressional hearings tend to be orchestrated blends of theater and policy: heavy on anecdote, light on insight, rife with both the posturing of politicians and the faux contrition of well-rehearsed witnesses caught in a televised bull's-eye.
Four decades of ruthless penalties for political dissent — and vast rewards for Qaddafi loyalty — long ago transformed Libyan public life into a kind of elaborate theater, dropping a heavy curtain between public expression and private opinion.
The theater carried a heavy debt load that extended all the way back to the early '90s.
The theater was facing heavy recession-induced cutbacks before Obama's stimulus plan was enacted, but with a $50,000 grant, the theater can continue to employ teachers and directors.
So opens "The Rockae," the Prospect Theater Company's heavy-metal musical based on Euripides' "Bacchae," and at first it seems right.
