Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading the University in total enrollment for the second year is Humanities 7. Taught by William Alfred, professor of English and author of the Broadway play Hogan's Goat, the course contrasts British and American plays of the last 20 years with those of Sartre, Beckett, lonesco and some early Greek playwrights. Hum 7 dropped from a high of 945 students last year to 736 for this term, though it is still easily in the lead...
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...regional theater has merely spawned a theatrical bureaucracy of so-so actors and so-so directors who are not above displaying a sly slapdash contempt for their so-so audiences. The rank mediocrity of most resident companies has been camouflaged by some New York drama critics, who put down Broadway commercialism and confect gorgeous fictions about the distinguished dramatic art and high esthetic integrity that they have discovered in Nome, Keokuk and the lower Gaspé Peninsula...
...these much-touted troupes, San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, has now arrived in Manhattan. ACT is distressingly average, and its three-play fare is flaccidly representative of regional-theater programming: one funny (A Flea in Her Ear), one classic (The Three Sisters) and one warmed-over Broadway Provocative (Tiny Alice). When he worked off-Broadway, ACT'S director William Ball was a sensitive, scrupulous directorial craftsman (Under Milk Wood, Ivanov). With his own company, Ball has become a puppetmaster who makes his players dance more than they...
...opening-week guests were Mets Pitcher Tom Seaver and the latest star of Broadway's The Great White Hope, Yaphet Kotto, whose name Namath mispronounced even though he had inked it phonetically on his palm. Most of the interrogation and badinage revolved around Joe's booze-and-broads approach to athletic training. Namath suggested that they drop the subject when he spotted Mrs. Seaver in the audience...