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...then, live anthologies were giving way to filmed westerns. Coe worked on Playhouse 90 (his big hit: Days of Wine and Roses), but what Vidal called "a golden age for the dramatist" was over. So was Coe's influence on the televiewer's weekly diet. On Broadway he produced The Miracle Worker and All the Way Home; in the movies he directed A Thousand Clowns. But by his 50th birthday Coe had become a cultural afterthought. He died...
This is not the fault of the presentation but rather of Shaw, who never hesitated in subjugating his role as a dramatist to what he felt were his duties as a social crusader. Nonetheless, "Man and Superman" remains one of Shaw's most intriguing and memorable plays, and the ART has succeeded brilliantly in bringing it to new life on stage...
Katrina is certainly one of them. Her decision in 1885 to marry the son of Irish Catholic immigrants is not popular with her distinguished Protestant parents. Nearly 10 years later, Daugherty is a successful dramatist still trying to win over his in-laws with expensive gifts and nights on the town. Like a choice table at the Delavan House...
...MOLIERE COMEDIES Hard to imagine a better actor of the great French dramatist's work than Brian Bedford or a better translator than Richard Wilbur. This Broadway revival was a tonic reminder of how compatibly elegance and buffoonery can be married...
Arcadia offers the heartening spectacle of a dramatist who, with commendable industry, has found the unusual but handsome vessel into which most of his obsessions neatly fit. And Stoppard makes it look easy. With Arcadia, he has fabricated a work as simple as a perfect cube and as complex as the physics of a breaking wave. Or make that the physics of the turbulent air in a room where many people are clapping...