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...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...
...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...
...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...