Word: off-broadway
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...down in Greenwich Village, where the elite meet to beat, once stood an off-Broadway citadel called The Living Theater. Its keepers were Julian Beck, 38, and his wife Judith Molina, 37, and because they were "artists" they also kept their federal taxes. There wasn't enough money there to save The Living Theater (it died), but naturally the IRS haled them into court, and naturally they had a theatrical ball conducting their own defense, and naturally a bunch of squares found them guilty of avoiding taxes. "Victims of injustice!" squealed the Becks at the verdict. "Innocent! Innocent...
...off-Broadway production, Blood Knot sometimes echoes with echoes, and speaks in the voices of Genet, Pinter, and even the John Steinbeck of Of Mice and Men. But Atholl Fugard, a white South African, shuns preachments and never oversimplifies the human equation. His symbols are the kind that laugh, cry and bleed...
...York, where she took a cold-water flat in the Village and enrolled in Herbert Berghofs acting school. Here is where the hat-check part usually comes in, and the feet graped with blisters, but not for Sandy. She had been in Manhattan only a few months when an off-Broadway producer stopped her on the street, asked if she was an actress, then said he wanted her to read for a part in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea. She got it, and everything has swum since then. She is out of the cold-water flat...
...labor operetta, The Cradle Will Rock, mellowed slightly after the war (he renounced Communism in 1949, the year his opera Regina appeared), but kept a spare set of sharks' teeth pearly white, dear, for the English adaptation of Brecht's Threepenny Opera, which ran six years off-Broadway, made a jukebox gigolo of Mack the Knife; in Fort-de-France, Martinique, where police charged three sailors with beating him to death...
...Legacy of Pain. In one of two compelling off-Broadway offerings that do have unity of tone, meaning, and performance, a consciousness of massive injustice and personal sorrow settles movingly upon the playgoer. In White America is a poignant chronicle of the Negro's centuries-old legacy of pain, oppression, and denial, from the days of slavery to the present hour. It is an evening of dramatic readings thoughtfully culled from the statements of Presidents, the reminiscences of ex-slaves and ante-bellum Southern matrons, the rantings of bigots. Sensitive actors make the word intolerance become flesh, tortured, torturing...