Word: apa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart would scarcely have dreamed that a scene like this could form the tender touchstone of their 29-year-old farce-comedy, but Director Ellis Rabb and his gifted APA company have had the wit to see that two people falling honestly in love on a modern stage is a total surprise. They have further grasped that the '30s can be nostalgically re-created as a golden age of moneyless innocence, and that in an era of black comedy, human comedy has vastly appealing warmth...
...APA company, You Can't Take It With You may inaugurate a different sort of dream, a repertory theater housed on Broadway. Possessing in Rosemary Harris one of the most expressive actresses on the U.S. stage, ranging with intrepidity, intelligence and taste from Gorky's The Lower Depths to Shaw's Man and Superman, this troupe, after six years of existence, has received only token gifts from the cultural fund dispensers. Endorsed by critics and public, each of its productions is better than the last, and it may now take added heart that excellence will...
...Rosemary Harris, star of the APA's revival of You Can't Take It With You (see THE THEATER...
...Married Asset. The result was a merger of the Phoenix's administrative acumen and the APA's artistic excellence. And for the APA, the new security has spread a tone of smooth confidence. "Five years of percolating is better than instant," says one actress. Having done 30 productions (predominantly classical) since its start, the APA is now a well-integrated, well-trained troupe, one-third of whom have been in the company all five years. They are beginning to reflect Rabb's maxim that a rep company should be made up not of chameleon-like actors...
Among the APA's growing assets, the greatest is the emergence of a first-magnitude star among them. One month before forming APA, Rabb presciently married her. Rosemary Harris, 34, has played Desdemona to Burton's Othello, Ophelia to O'Toole's Hamlet, Elena to Olivier's Dr. Astroff and Redgrave's Uncle Vanya. In the U.S., she played opposite Jason Robards in the 1958 Broadway production of The Disenchanted. The British-born, India-reared actress stars in War and Peace and Judith, plays Violet in Man and Superman at alternate performances...