Word: anta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...section of the stage at the arena-styled ANTA Washington Square Theater has been tilted up so that the playing area resembles a giant record turntable, and since the actors burst into song every few minutes, it sometimes seems as if an invisible disk jockey were directing the play. The best tune, The Impossible Dream, could be transferred intact to Skyscraper, which suggests the show's basic defect. It ought to be 31 centuries distant from Broadway instead of merely 40 blocks away...
...important serious plays have just opened, both dealing with the same theme--man's guilt and moral responsibility, especially as they relate to the extermination of Jews by the Nazis. One is Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy (at the ANTA Washington Sq. Theatre) and the other is William Hanley's Slow Dance on the Killing Ground (at the Plymouth...
...want to tax your brain, then go to The Owl and the Pussycat (at the ANTA Theatre). This two-person comedy by Bill Manhoff is a chain of spats and reunions between an evicted prostitute and the would-be writer she descends upon. It has its share of clever lines; but the show's great virtue is the transcendentally brilliant performance by young Diana Sands. Hitherto mainly admired for her power in serious drama, she shows here that comedy is just as much her forte. Or, in this case, fortissimo--for she bulldozes her way right through the show with...
...University Ph.D., combines a scholar's skill with the insight and pugnacity of a first-rate journalist. Since taking over two years ago, he has increased the stature of T.D.R. enough that the American National Theater and Academy last month switched its group subscription from Show to T.D.R. ANTA's 4,800 members will increase the magazine's circulation to nearly 15,000, placing it among the leading literary quarterlies. "T.D.R. started off as a valuable magazine," says Yale Drama Professor John Gassner; "now it is indispensible for anyone connected with the theater...
James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie is a hard play for a white man to take. Brutally and sometimes eloquently, it tells every white man how much every Negro hates him, and enough of them have stayed away from the ANTA Theater to put Mister Charlie in imminent danger of folding...