Word: anta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this keep you away from the show-and heaven knows when Marco will be staged again. Enough of O'Neill's intentions are on view at the handsome new ANTA theatre. Many whom this satire is aimed at will be occupying its seats. If these people fail to realize that they are the butt, it won't be the fault of Quintero and his charges...
...ANTA Theatre off Washington Square is just splendid. With a capacity of 1158, it has 21 rows of seats arranged in a semicircular amphitheatre, with the arena and all but the last six rows below ground level. The acoustics are perfect and the sight-lines optimal. The $530,000 building is announced as a temporary structure pending the completion, in a year or two, of the uptown Vivian Beaumont Theatre. It would be a shame if such a fine theatre were not to become a permanently available site for dramatic productions...
...ANTA's auditioning left much to be desired. Benny Goodman was chosen as the first jazzman to tour Russia when even the Russians knew he was strictly otstaly.* Then last year, the Schola Cantorum from the University of Arkansas was refused traveling money; the choir raised its own expenses and went off to win first prize in the Polyphonic Competition in Italy and was invited to the White House on its return. Senator J. William Fulbright promoted the cultural exchange program in the first place; and since the Schola Cantorum comes from the heart of Fulbright country...
...Hugh Leonard's Stephen D., an adaptation-successful in London-of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, will open in late autumn. Bertolt Brecht's Arturo Ui, which parodies the rise of Hitler, stars Christopher Plummer (Nov. 4). The ANTA-Washington Square Theater, preparing to become the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, will present Arthur Miller's new play After the Fall, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Jason Robards Jr. (Jan. 23). The ANTA group will also do Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions, directed...
...centered in the group's choice of plays when it planned a five-city Latin American swing earlier this summer. As the idol of the Method-acting school, Williams automatically had to become the focal point of the repertory. But which plays? Helen Hayes and her Government-sponsored ANTA company were soon to tour Latin America with The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was just "too dirty," and A Streetcar Named Desire called for too large a cast. So the group ended up doing Suddenly, Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth, the one a swift...