Word: humorousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY is a slam-bang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit -agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
...enterprisingly varied season that has included Sophocles' Electra and Noel Coward's Design for Living. The company displays more stamina than sparkle and sometimes throws itself at the play as well as into it, but Director Robert Kalfin wisely stresses the drama's pagan good humor rather than its repetitive class dialectics...
...ultimate in Method acting, for at the time, he happened to be onstage in a new off-off-Broadway drama called Life with the Family, and playing the toughest role of his career: being himself. Schultz believes that real eating-talking-sleeping life has all "the pathos, humor and drama of the theater." To prove it, three weeks ago he and his sons Lyle, 4, and Elan, 5, a jazz musician named Marzette, 28, and three dogs and a cat set up house on the stage of the Headquarters theater in Manhattan's East Village-and invited the public...
...major work on the program was Hindemith's Symphony in Bb(1951). This is the ne plus ultra of the band literature. It is music of real symphonic breadth and of imposing technical and interpretive difficulty. The humor in the piece, unusual for the effort of a German composer, was well brought out by the Band...
...associates explained that Carson "thrives on topical humor. He looks like an idiot talking about Christmas in those old tapes they have been using." That sounded reasonable, except that Carson had never complained before about the chopped-up, ad-ridden Tonight repeats that NBC runs every Sunday night of the year. At that point, Carson, who was lolling out the strike on the beach at Fort Lauderdale, came up with another and loftier justification of his stand. "I was required to join AFTRA in order to work for the network," he said. "I know of no business except the broadcasting...