An old cheese case from Parma, Italy. A rusted CTA fare box. A dozen fruit-picking ladders. Or as owner Stuart Grannen calls his wares: “Completely useless stuff.”
On March 27, 1973, “The Godfather” won the Academy Award for best picture of 1972, but its star, Marlon Brando, refused to accept his Oscar for best actor, and in what would become one of the Oscars’ most famous moments...
The danger of dense works like John Kolvenbach's play, centered on an urban couple and a brother-sister relationship, is that the richness of the text can get in the way of the characters.