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...warier. Production costs jumped, and off-Broadway found itself increasingly prey to the worst of Broadway's ailments, the hit-or-flop syndrome. So the off-Broadway theater is in crisis-an un-fabulous invalid. Luckily, this decline has zapped most vanity productions and self-indulgent exercises in beatnicknack-ery. The remnants, plus some earnest repertory and some irreverent topical comedy, still offer venturous playgoers a measure of dramatic experiment and serious theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Unfabulous Invalid | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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