Celibidache (pronounced cheh-lee-bee-DAH-keh), played the theater of self-effacement to grandiose effect.
But it's also a ticket into the theater of self-doubt.
Mr. Saldinger paints a compelling theater of the self.
SoHo Through Oct. 7 With a probing approach that is both over- and understated, Jeffrey Saldinger paints a compelling theater of the self.
People began to conflate what the sociologist Erving Goffman labeled the "backstage" and "outside regions" in the theater of the self.
How much farther Mr. Goicolea can go with his theater of the multiple self is hard to say, but for now he's on a roll.
He takes the intricate, frequently self-contradictory theater of the New Left at face value, and panders to the credulity of the audience by breathing new life into old clichés.
Organized by Evergreen Museum student curator and museums and society minor Suzanne Gold, this focus show considers how theater provided a means of self-expression, and even self-definition, separate but parallel to Alice Garrett's role as an ambassador's wife.
Paul Kokoski Hamilton, Ontario, Nov. 15, 2008 To the Editor: Re "Theater Director Resigns Amid Ire-Rights Ire" (Arts pages, Nov. 13): The events that forced the resignation of Scott Eckern as artistic director of the California Musical Theater were self-defeating acts of intolerance.
Beyond the novelty of the special effect lies the stirring truth that the city that never sleeps is a self-regenerating, nonstop theater of becoming, a place where on any given day, amid huge skyscrapers and venerable brownstone blocks, two new friends may decide to draw their own favorite bunnies on the nearest sidewalk for all the world to see.
The choice also seemed an abdication of the theater's self-mandated policy to keep Southern California playgoers abreast of the best, latest work it could find.
