Word: critics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brings the same sort of breathless enthusiasm to her girlhood experiences in acting school, modeling, ushering, and selling Actor's Cue in front of Sardi's so her face would become familiar to producers. A big break came when Critic George Jean Nathan wrote that Lauren was "the prettiest theater usher" of the 1942 season. Off Broadway the spotlight was on Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo. Bacall danced with servicemen at the Stage Door Canteen, but her mind seems to have been exclusively on star wars...
...difference between a critic and a reviewer is that a critic can pick his fights. A reviewer must be able to take on anyone in the bar. Wilfrid Sheed is a reviewer, and in his weight class, one of the best in America. He has the good taste to know that glibness is slightly shabby. But in this new volume of analysis and in vective, what he writes about E.B. White's style ("White's notes to the milkman achieve effects that the others sat up all night for") could be said by others about Sheed...
Abbott called herself "an arrogant and narrow-minded critic" of contemporary photography...
...total vocal and physical stylization demanded by the post-modernists (Brecht, Beckett, Handke). Along the way, students are gradually mixed into Yale Repertory productions, beginning as spear-carriers and moving up to understudy positions and major roles. Another innovation was the creation of two majors: Theater Management and Dramatic Criticism. The latter included courses in "Dramaturgy," the graduate acting as a built-in theater critic, hired by regional companies as a literary and artistic advisor...
However, balanced with what Catalano calls "a distaste for the dean's policy" is an almost unanimous respect for his genius as a director, a drama critic and leader of a creative movement in American theater. John J.G. Rubin, a second-year acting student at the drama school, organized a student search committee to consider possible replacements for Brustein when he leaves next year. "We went through lists of likely candidates. And, honestly, we found very few people who had that same drive and desire to transform American theater. If there is one thing I'll regret losing when...