Word: apa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More simply, it is known as the APA, but on its way to excellence its title has grown longer. This season it be came the APA at the Phoenix, having joined forces with Manhattan's venture some Phoenix Theater production company. All three of its current productions, Man and Superman, War and Peace, Judith, are critical successes; performances in the 299-seat off-Broadway theater are sold out nearly every night, and last week the APA extended the three-play offering to September. Beginning next season, it plans to become the APA-Phoenix at the Lyceum. That is Broadway...
Being a Bemoaner. For all that, APA is only five years old, the inspiration and creation of Actor-Director Ellis Rabb, 34. Born in Memphis, Rabb studied drama at Carnegie Tech, where his Southern accent graduated sounding British ("The inflection patterns are very similar, if you think about it"). Small parts on and off Broadway followed until, in 1959, he was struck by Tyrone Guthrie's comment in A Life in the Theatre that anyone bemoaning the lack of first-rate classical actors should "take more energetic action...
...been putting on everything from Oh Dad, Poor Dad ... to the Western première of Russia's The Dragon, a banned-at-home critique of Stalin and Khrushchev. In the way of the worthy, the Phoenix had run on a healthy yearly deficit. Joining with the APA seemed a natural evolution. The Phoenix yearned for a permanent repertory group-their own efforts to establish one having failed-so they could eliminate the traumas of one-shot productions, plan whole seasons in advance. For the APA, the Phoenix offered a home in the drama mecca of New York plus...
Judith strips myth down to Freudian psychology and debunks belief with Shavian iconoclasm-the tactics by which modern man burglarizes himself of an agelong heritage of mystery. In this 34-year-old play, revived by APA-at-the-Phoenix, the late French Playwright Jean Giraudoux, an urbane, witty, and ironic second-story man of ideas, remains true to his dramatic creed: Be clever and let who will be good...
...PEACE. The life force of a great novel surges through this APA-at-the-Phoenix rendering of the Tolstoy classic. The tone and thematic intent of the work have been preserved, and Sydney Walker as old Prince Bolkonski and Rosemary Harris as Natasha are supremely good...