Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASE OF LIBEL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Van Heflin, Lloyd Bridges, José Ferrer, and E. G. Marshall provide the courtroom drama in this TV adaptation of the Broadway play based on Attorney Louis Nizer's 1962 bestseller, My Life in Court...
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...thing a playwright can do with the Oedipus complex is to forget it. Purporting to explain the irreconcilable clash of son with father, the Oedipus complex, dramatically speaking, tends to reduce conflict to impasse. This is both the substance of-and the trouble with-Robert Anderson's new Broadway play, I Never Sang for My Father. Sometimes poignant, sometimes sentimental, always earnest, it essentially presents a static emotional impasse...
...receive the blessing of love from his father's untender hand. A play that wears its heart on its sleeve and small muscle in its script has been given whatever discipline, order and form it has by Alan Schneider, currently the busiest and most versatile director both off-Broadway and on. Whether he groups his actors with a painter's eye or makes a scene spin like a boy's top, his direction is impeccable. The only flaws are in the play, which renders unto Freud the dramatic initiative and vision that should belong to the playwright...
...offering an updated version of the 1944 film mystery Laura; the adapter was no less than Truman Capote, and Princess Lee Bouvier Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's sister, was in the title role. NBC, meanwhile, had ponied up an unprecedented $112,500 for TVs first preview of a Broadway-bound drama, William Hanley's Flesh and Blood, starring Kim Stanley, E. G. Marshall and Edmond O'Brien. Yet neither work played up to its billing...