Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playhouse, the 1954-55 Broadway season was by no means distinguished...
Amid the usual carnage, only one play died a hero's death: Graham Greene's short-lived The Living Room, which, though it ultimately failed, at its best had real distinction. Blatantly among the missing were the theater's classics: on Broadway proper, there was not a single revival of an important drama...
Compensation-in terms of revivals and a good deal else-came from off-Broadway. Last season's white hope, the Phoenix Theater, turned a rather dull grey -though thanks to Comic Nancy Walker, who was very funny when she had material and in places when she hadn't, the largely uninspired revue. Phoenix '55, made a dent. But far funnier was the off-Broadway Shoestring Revue; and there were such other achievements as Jean Anouilh's gay and witty Thieves' Carnival, a stylish revival of Congreve's Way of the World, a sensitive revival...
...These fine points I danced through the British press last week in the kind of theological Donny| brook that used to delight Christian polemicists. It began with a BBC Easter telecast of Family Portrait, a play by Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen that ran for 14 weeks on Broadway in 1939 and for four weeks in London in 1948. Theme of the play: the hostility and lack of comprehension by Jesus' brothers to His mission. Britain's Bernard Cardinal Griffin lost no time in protesting that the play's assumption that Jesus had blood brothers...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Oscarwinning Actress Grace Kelly), and a cynical director (William Holden) who tries to pull them apart (TIME...