The Theater: Life Is Terminal

THE SHADOW BOX

by MICHAEL CRISTOFER

It may sound odd, but Broadway is not healthy enough to accommodate this gallant and luminous play about dying.

Yet the regional theater is able to. The Shadow Box was launched at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum and has found a second home in New Haven. The original director, Gordon Davidson, repeats that task at the Long Wharf Theater, over which Arvin Brown presides. Both these artistic directors are nurturing top regional theaters.

Though the three pivotal characters are terminal cases, they live in cottages where their families and...

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