Word: anta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desire Under the Elms (by Eugene O'Neill) opened a new season for the American National Theater & Academy. As a choice-on-paper, this major O'Neill effort is far happier than most of ANTA's previous offerings. As an actual stage piece, it leaves much to be desired under the elms. In it O'Neill boldly grappled with the most rooted intensities and twisted passions. But for all its insistent starkness, Desire lacks stature, and the ANTA production, by acting everything out in italics, tends to accentuate the play's shortcomings...
Louis Jouvet holds the ANTA stage on 52nd Street until Tuesday with Moliere's classic, School for Wives. The talented troupe of the Theatre de l'Athenee performs in its native French...
Louis Jouvet's ANTA-sponsored tour, which touched Boston briefly last week, has pointed out several things to the playgoer. It has given him a good idea of the production standards of Jouvet's Theatre de L'Athence in Paris, and the magnificent style of Jouvet's acting. It has also demonstrated the value and energy of ANTA--The American National Theatre and Academy...
...ANTA, the organization responsible for the tour of this play, is chartered by the Congress of the United States under Public Law 199. Its purpose is the "sponsorship and implementation of various types of theatre activity" in this country. Congress gave ANTA everything but an appropriation. The officers of ANTA, including Helen Hayes, Cheryl Crawford, and Vinton Freedley '14, have managed by means of private fund-raising, to make the group more than a name. A series of fine revivals on Broadway this year, including "Twentieth Century," has given ANTA needed publicity. Jouvet's tour, which has reached four American...
...play by Bruce Milholland) turned up, after nearly 20 years, as a pleasant Christmas surprise. Its revival also seemed a sort of desperate remedy. It is as near to rich, round entertainment as the American National Theater and Academy has come. It is also about as far from what ANTA should be doing as so high-purposed an organization could go. Twentieth Century is a brazenly commercial farce, made into a sure thing with Jose Ferrer's sturdy reputation and Gloria Swanson's sudden new fame...