Behind the scenes.

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• Shock Absorbed Don't call Chicago an act of high subversion. It's just good old-fashioned Broadway.
  Stanley Kauffmann Nov. 26, 1996
  
• State of the Bully Wole Soyinka's theater of dictatorship.
  Scott L. Malcomson Oct. 23, 1996
  
• Oversexed Christopher Durang's latest Lulu.
  David Edelstein Oct. 15, 1996
  
• Now What I Wonder Do I Mean By That Interpreting Beckett.
  Louis Menand Aug. 21, 1996
  
• Quel Drag! New York's Ridiculous Theatrical Company strikes out in a strangely serious direction.
  Larissa MacFarquhar July 31, 1996