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Article: Not About Nightingales. (Alley Theater, Houston, Texas)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- July 21, 1998
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The Alley Theater in Houston has scored the theater coup of the year by coproducing with England's Royal National Theatre the world premiere of a Tennessee Williams play that has languished unproduced for 50 years. A brutal and upsetting prison drama, Not About Nightingales packs a three-part punch: It's a 1930s-style "living newspaper" expose of inhumane prison conditions; it's an early study of themes that would emerge full-blown in The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire; and it's a powerhouse dramatic spectacle staged by Trevor Nunn, world famous for directing Cats and Sunset Boulevard. Following its London debut, the production opened last month in Houston ...
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April 18, 2000 ;
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... ... and-white portrait of O'Connell beneath harsh lighting that threw a menacing shadow above his fedora. ``This is the boss,'' Whalen said. ``The photo is the epitome of what an Irish-American political boss really looks like.'' The photo was inscribed ...
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