101. Fighting a War of Words About a Lot of Words About a War.
- Author
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Isherwood, Charles
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THEATER reviews - Abstract
A momentous passage in American journalism strides stiffly across the stage of New York Theater Workshop in ''Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers,'' a fact-packed drama by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons, journalists with distinguished careers that have extended into academia and other realms. Actually, striding is overstating it. Mostly this dramatization of the 1971 showdown between the government and the press stands stock still, for obvious reasons. ''Top Secret'' was written for and first produced (in 1991) by L.A. Theater Works, a long-running radio-play series. Not much has been done by the director, John Rubinstein, or Mr. Cowan to rethink it for the stage. (Mr. Aarons died in 2004.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Published
- 2010