Christopher Plummer generates star power in Caesar and Cleopatra Aug 31, 2008
It's one that doesn't quite rank with such top-drawer efforts as Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Man and Superman and Heartbreak House. Fortunately, director Des McAnuff has nicely trimmed this revival and given it a glitzy, Technicolor production. (Brantford Expositor)
Byron and the Byronic Aug 5, 2008
By the beginning of our century, when Shaw satirized it in the brigand of Man and Superman, this figure had undoubtedly become stagey and ridiculous, but what it first symbolized is valid enough to survive its successive embodiments in diverse costumes. Long before Byron's corsair with his turban and cutlass, the same popular hero-worship and the same connotations of social justice inspired the tales of Robin Hood. (The Atlantic Online)
Iron Man: A Movie Marvel May 3, 2008
Tony is an arms dealer, an occupation that has fascinated playwrights for ages (George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman, Arthur Miller in All My Sons) and accounts for some of the evil-genius rep of Halliburton's gift to governance, Dick Cheney. In his first appearance in the March 1963 issue of Tales of Suspense, as written by Stan Lee and his brother Larry Lieber, and illustrated by Kirby and Don Heck, Stark was inspired by Howard Hughes in his Spruce Goose phase: titan of industry,... (Time.com)
Robert Hurwitt's theater picks Dec 30, 2007
"Man and Superman": The ever-penetrating wit of George Bernard Shaw seemed freshly burnished in Artistic Director Jonathan Moscone's smartly pared (from five hours to three) California Shakespeare Theater production of the unwieldy masterpiece about sexual politics. With Susannah Livingston and Elijah Alexander heading an exceptionally strong cast, Moscone integrated Shaw's vibrant play of ideas with its surrounding comedy into a whole greater than the sum of its parts. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Amazing 'Superman' Jul 10, 2007
" It isn't just that he's created a fine balance between the play of ideas and its surrounding comedy; in his orchestration of the performances and their underlying emotions, Moscone has integrated Shaw's elements into a whole greater than the sum of its parts -- a super "Man and Superman. " E-mail Robert Hurwitt at . This article appeared on page F - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle Park Deputy Director Deputy Dir. Road Services San Mateo SJVC a regionally accredited private BEHAVIORAL HEALTH... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
William Hutt, 87,soldier and actor Jun 28, 2007
By then Mr. Hutt had become heavily involved in the Grand Theatre in nearby London, where Martha Henry was artistic director from 1988 to 1994, and had appeared at the rival Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake in Man and Superman in 1989. When Mr. Hutt received a Governor-General's Award for lifetime achievement in the Performing Arts in 1992, he couldn't accept in person because he was performing in A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room at the Grand. (Globe and Mail)
'Unreasonable Man' safe on any screen Mar 15, 2007
- George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman," 1903. You've probably driven in a car lately, one most likely equipped with a seat belt. (UCD Advocate, CO)
