Linda Winer Linda Winer Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday, Galleries It seems like forever since we could use the word "reality" without imagining ironic quotation marks around it. What was once a solid, unambiguously meaningful word, of course, hasn't been itself since so-called reality TV marched across our screens with nonactors pretending to forget the camera in unscripted competitions, courtships and other public displays of so-called life. The theater, bless its old-fashioned inflexibility, has remained reasonably unscathed by the monster in the box. Yes, our musicals have had more than a few invasions of the hyper-embellished screaming style...
↧