Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thurber, who was so taken with Van Doren's acting skill ten years ago as the lead in an amateur production of The Male Animal that he recently began trying-before Charlie became famous-to persuade him to take a role in a play he is preparing for Broadway next season...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Grand Prize, Ron Alexander's Broadway play, with June Lockhart, John Newland (color...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). A pre-Broadway preview of The Ballad of Baby Doe, an American folk opera by Douglas Moore (TIME, July...
...additional sign of the growing Broadway mentality among the local drama groups can be found in the type of play which they choose as their vehicles. The current Dudley House production of Streetcar presents a particularly unfortunate example, but scarcely an isolated one. The last couple of years have witnessed the college staging of other plays by Williams, as well as works of Miller, Fry, and Chekhov, all of whom then had plays running in New York. While these men are among the best of modern playwrights, their works do receive quite frequent productions by the commercial theater. Obviously college...
...established authors, but these points make a poor excuse. The works, for example, of Ibsen, Lorca, and Yeats include many of which are eminently suitable for staging at the University. Some of them have the additional advantage of not requiring grand production. Instead of these, we get imitations of Broadway--and Shakespeare. Even worse than the popular modern playwrights, Shakespeare provides the staple for Harvard's dramatic diet. While it is laudable to produce nearly any of his works, the fact remains that Shakespeare also receives frequent performances. Two or three of his works can generally be found...