Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the play was first presented on Broadway in 1967, it was given an inept production that erred fatally by trying to be realistic. Caricatures cannot be played as people, and the jokes seemed to expire rather than explode...
...current off-Broadway production is breath-catchingly funny, surrealistic in tone and style and hair-trigger fast in pace. All this it owes to Director Alan Arkin. He shows such ready mas tery of comic tempo and zany action that Mike Nichols and Gene Saks might as well know that they have a competitor on their hands...
...Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest American playwright and the first Negro to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play of the Year Award, which she received for Raisin in the Sun. She died of cancer six years later in 1965, while her second Broadway play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, was running. To Be Young, Gifted and Black, which opened last week at Manhattan's Cherry Lane Theater, is a warm, loving tribute to her, put together from her own writings - journals, letters, snippets of plays...