Word: broadway
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Love's Labour's Lost (by William Shakespeare) opened the season at Manhattan's City Center with a gay splash. The play is minor and rather poky Shakespeare, last seen on Broadway in the 1890s; but the present revival, if a dubious choice, takes a daring form. Love's Labour is offered as an elegant Edwardian frolic, half satiric comedy, half court masque. Alexander Pope was told of his translation of the Iliad: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." Perhaps the City Center should not call this Shakespeare; perhaps...
...years at Purdue, became pressagent for the Indianapolis Speedway, and the daredevil exploits of its racing drivers. Impressed by Hannagan's zip and Irish charm, Publisher Roy W. Howard took him to New York to work for the United Press, later set him writing N.E.A.'s Broadway column. Flamboyant Steve quit after four years to go back to work for the Speedway's owner,Millionaire Carl Fisher, who was also trying to develop Miami Beach...
Chapman and Cox are the authors of "Billy Budd," recently produced on Broadway...
This is the first time the HTG has premiered a play. Chapman will act as general overseer and director with an eye to future Broadway production...
Come Back, Little Sheba. William Inge's Broadway hit about two mismated people, faithfully transferred to the screen; with Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth (TIME...