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...type of play which they choose as their vehicles. The current Dudley House production of Streetcar presents a particularly unfortunate example, but scarcely an isolated one. The last couple of years have witnessed the college staging of other plays by Williams, as well as works of Miller, Fry, and Chekhov, all of whom then had plays running in New York. While these men are among the best of modern playwrights, their works do receive quite frequent productions by the commercial theater. Obviously college theater should not pretend or even wish to be a substitute for the commercial stage. Its particular...
Died. Maria Pavlovna Chekhova, 93, only sister of Russian Playwright Anton Chekhov, who idolized her brother, never married, kept house for him much of the time, after his death in 1904 made a museum of his villa at Yalta; in Yalta...
...very good that there's No Exit after The Anniversary because Sartre proves much better than Chekhov, who is a Russian anyway. At Leverett Dining Hall, at 8:30 p.m. today...
Though at first glance Turgenev's people often seem like Chekhov's, Turgenev has a rather different angle of vision and a different art. If no more wise than Chekhov, he is more wordly-wise and more ironic. Much of A Month is leisure-class social comedy, in which sheer ennui acts as a stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss. Where Chekhov's people bestir themselves too little or too late, Turgenev's seem overready; just because the landscape is flat or the drawing room tedious, they grasp at situations and embroider them...
Guided by Producers T. Edward Hambleton and Norris (Billy Budd) Houghton, the Phoenix has helped create a renaissance of the off-Broadway theater. One measure of its impact: a star of the magnitude of Franchot Tone has agreed to play an off-Broadway role most of this season in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya...