Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur Laurents is a playwright who always knows exactly what he's doing. He has been widely acclaimed for his Home of the Brave, Time of the Cuckoo, and West Side Story. Yet despite a laudable production, his A Clearing in the Woods last year enjoyed only a brief Broadway...
Plans are underway to mount it off-Broadway during the coming season; and the motivation is justified, for this is an important play. The Tufts Arena deserves praise for giving it its Boston premiere this week...
Mason's vehicle on this occasion is Mid-summer, a sentimental comedy that had a short Broadway run in 1953, written by Vina Delmar (chiefly known for her serialized novels in women's magazines). The play is not very substantial; but it is at least competently written and, in this production, always engaging. The beginning, however, is unfocussed; and there are numerous evidences of obvious padding, where, for instance, characters quote poetry, the Declaration of Independence, the agnostic writing of Robert Ingersoll, and the roster of U.S. presidents, or occupy themselves in a spelling bee and an arithmetic problem...
Pamela is not so well suited to her role of the uneducated wife (which raised Geraldine Page to Broadway stardom): she speaks the English language far too beautifully. Her highly cultured accent would never be found in a woman who cannot even read. Still, it is a pleasure to listen to her diction...
Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...