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Article: The Time of the Cuckoo.(Lincoln Center, New York, New York)(Review)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2000
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* Lincoln Center, New York City (through May 7) * Written by Arthur Laurents * Directed by Nicholas Martin * Starring Debra Monk and Olek Krupa
Arthur Laurents is one of the gay elder statesmen of the American theater. Legendary as book writer for two classic Broadway musicals (West Side Story and Gypsy), he also directed the musical version of La Cage aux Folles and wrote the screenplays for The Way We Were and The Turning Point, among others. His plays are less well-known, a circumstance Lincoln Center Theater is addressing with a revival of his most famous drama, The Time of the Cuckoo, which was adapted for the screen for the 1955 Katharine Hepburn movie ...