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...gospel music, ballads and burlesque, juxtaposing idiocy and idealism. He gets good acting and excellent singing from his cast, but Carmines himself is the best show. He sings, acts the Greenwich Village minister and, scrunched over a grand piano in the dark of the Circle in the Square the ater, plays the music for the whole performance without even a drum for company. Neither he nor Joan needs any thing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Unemployed Saint | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

...ATER flashing warning signals for more than a year, four unions representing 80% of the railroads' work force stalked off their jobs last week in a nationwide strike that raised an awesome specter. If the strike dragged on, the nation would face grave paralysis of its heavy-duty transportation lifelines. Fears grew that fresh fruits and vegetables, substantial amounts of which are shipped by rail, along with meat, milk, eggs and other perishables, would become increasingly scarce on store shelves. The halting of coal shipments brought concern about mine shutdowns and power failures. In Detroit, automakers worried that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Day the Trains Stopped | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...actor can aspire to the pinnacle of his art without measuring himself against the greatest role in English-speaking drama. The great Hamlets belong to the most exclusive club in the theater. They are the touchstones of dramatic art, and no one who cares about the the ater utters their names without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Member of the Company | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...Casey was offended by realistic the ater ("To hell with so-called realism, for it leads nowhere," he wrote) and in this blast at what he felt was wrong with Ireland, he let his antic imagination range and flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: A Rooster for the Phoenix | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...startling enough that the world premiere of a new Tennessee Williams play should take place in the relative ob scurity of a London experimental the ater. It was even more surprising that Michael Redgrave and Alec Guinness should both have rejected the proffered male lead. Unusual also was the fact that critics were barred from attending the first two weeks of a limited Siweek run. Most of the reviewers, moreover, were nonplused by a play that lacked the familiar shape and sound of a Williams drama. "Seldom, even in the half-light of the theater, have I seen an audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The London Stage: A Streetcar Named Despair | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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