Word: hambleton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
This season, up to its eaves in work, the theater will put on 18 shows, ranging from French Pantomimist Marcel Marceau (TIME, Oct. 3) to a series of plays for new directors. Producers Hambleton and Houghton dream of making the Phoenix the most productive theater in the U.S. and "a larger than life, truly theatrical experience fortified by language that sings...
Create Away from Pressures. At the Phoenix Theater on Manhattan's Second Avenue, a couple of miles below Times Square, an inventive musical play called The Golden Apple (TIME, March 22) is playing to full houses. The Phoenix, according to Founders Norris Houghton and T. Edward Hambleton, was organized last fall so that established show people could occasionally get away "from the frenzied tailoring process that must turn every undertaking into a 'smash hit.' " For its first production, Madam, Will You Walk, the Phoenix hired Broadway's Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, paid them...
Pride's Crossing (by Victor Wolfson; produced by T. Edward Hambleton) penetrates a stately New England mansion to the tempestuous life within. There, out of a diseased respect for respectability, an aristocratic matron (Mildred Dunnock) has lived with her husband and his spitfire stable-girl mistress (Tamara Geva). There, after the husband dies and leaves half the house to the wildcat, the widow lives on with her still. The spitfire's son, the widow's son, her son's son and a governess also inhabit the house where, between heart attacks and thunderstorms, the tying...