Word: anta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the most distinguished presentation of the week, NBC's two-hour-long production of the ANTA revival of The Skin of Our Teeth, was in some measure a sales pitch for mankind in general. Concocted for the theater when the iconoscope was still a gadget little known outside the laboratory, Playwright Thornton Wilder's crazy, mixed-up parable of the human race is a tale told largely in TV's own terms. Its soap-opera domestic situation, its firm reliance on interpolated newsreels, its constant comic interruptions and its narrow escapes from the maudlin...
Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, beamed proudly at the image of their adopted son James, 17, on a television set in her dressing room in the ANTA Theater. James won high praise for his TV acting debut in the role of a misunderstood youth on CBS-TV's hour-long dramatic show Climax...
...Broadway offerings are based on the obvious notion that a show is not worth producing unless it promises to enrich its backers as a long-run hit. Last week, however, Broadway blossomed with a smash hit that broke rules, and may break records. The American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) opened its revival of Thornton Wilder's timeless piece of vaudevillian anthropology. The Skin of Our Teeth, first produced in 1942 (and greeted by a mixed chorus of cheers and catcalls-plus a Pulitzer Prize). The ANTA production's glittering stars: the U.S. theater's Grande Dame...
Such a play, ANTA Producer Robert Whitehead reasoned last April, might prove a special tonic for the peril-surfeited people of France. He hand-picked Skin as his own pet project for inclusion in a "Salute to France." This cultural export (financed by thousands of U.S. donors) plunked down before Parisians the Philadelphia Orchestra. New York City Ballet, two U.S.-sponsored art shows, plus first-class stage productions of Oklahoma! and Medea (TIME, June...
Before 1954, there were very few U.S. musical visitors. But since ANTA (American National Theater and Academy) started an international exchange program (TIME, June 6), several top U.S. artists, e.g., the Metropolitan Opera's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom and the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, have made the trip. Last week Organist E. Power Biggs was exceptionally well received, and a septet of first chair men from the Boston Symphony arrived for joint concerts and some on its own. Next month another group of Russian artists will arrive, but next fall Icelanders expect to hear U.S. Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, Pianist Julius...