The Bilbao Effect

(Theatre: Acting Classes NYC) There’s a long tradition in theater of skewering journalists, lawyers and politicians, but architects, by comparison, have gotten off easy. In this age of the “starchitect,” that is bound to change, as demonstrated by two new dramas that present — and then undercut — the persona of the uncompromising visionary who dreams up buildings.

Acting Classes NYC (Theatre Group)

(Acting Classes NYC: Theatre Group) Amazing, isn’t it, what could be hidden behind those sober jackets and ties that made American men look all but interchangeable in the early 1950s. “The Temperamentals,” Jon Marans’s eminently likable docudrama about gay identity in the age of Eisenhower, begins with a classic vision of mid-20th-century uniformity: five guys in off-the-peg suits, as anonymous as the standard-issue, metal-frame chairs on which they’re seated.

Wantagh Teenager Glides Onto Broadway Stage

(Theatre: Stage Acting NYC) SHORTLY after the hit 2000 movie “Billy Elliot” came out on DVD, the Kowalik family sat down in their Wantagh home to watch the tale of a motherless 11-year-old boy, stuck in a strike-depressed mining town, who’s just got to dance. By then, everyone in the family realized 5-year-old Trent had a similar passion. “Maybe you’ll be Billy one of these days,” they kidded him. No one is laughing now. Grinning wildly, maybe.

Test post 5

Serving Opportunites Test Post oast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government’s response manager for the oil disaster, said Monday that 11,000 barrels of oil had been collected from the broken well over the previous 24 hours. He said roughly 120 linear miles of coastline in the Gulf of Mexico have been affected by the spill. Allen was in Washington to brief President Obama and the Cabinet on the administration’s ongoing response to the disaster. Meanwhile, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce was set to open shop on the bayou, holding a hearing in Chalmette, Louisiana.

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