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...Merry Partners, by E. J. Kahn Jr. A nostalgic stroll through the bygone world of Harrigan and Hart, top-billed vaudeville team of the '70snd '80s, with many an off-Broadway glance at the New York of their heyday (TIME...
Compensation-in terms of revivals and a good deal else-came from off-Broadway. Last season's white hope, the Phoenix Theater, turned a rather dull grey -though thanks to Comic Nancy Walker, who was very funny when she had material and in places when she hadn't, the largely uninspired revue. Phoenix '55, made a dent. But far funnier was the off-Broadway Shoestring Revue; and there were such other achievements as Jean Anouilh's gay and witty Thieves' Carnival, a stylish revival of Congreve's Way of the World, a sensitive revival...
...show broke records last year at the off-Broadway Theater de Lys. Thursday night the Lowell House Music Society will attempt what the Theatre de Lys did not--to isolate the songs from the action with the blackout and other epic staging methods. But lighting and staging are not the only difficulties of the technique. Continuity and dramatic effect are obstacles, for it is quite possible that deliberate breaks for the sake of understanding will also break the interest and concentration evoked by sustained tension. It is also possible that the rapid pace, the harsh atonal music, and the intimacy...
...studying at the Actors Studio with Broadway Directors Elia (A Streetcar Named Desire) Kazan and Lee (Men in White) Strasberg, both of whom worked with the old Group Theater and became two of the ablest craftsmen to influence the U.S. stage. Television jobs and a few good on-and off-Broadway roles helped Kim along. Finally, as the homely, dry-tongued adolescent sister in Picnic (TIME, March 2, 1953), she won both the New York Drama Critics' and Donaldson awards as the year's best supporting actress...
...York Times), and action photographs (from the files of LIFE) replace the usual static poses of publicity stills. Kronenberger notes that two of his ten best (Golden Apple and Via Flaminia) originated off-Broadway. Perhaps, he says, "the prime significance of '53-'54 will be that Broadway, just then, began to be saved (or could it have been doomed?) by off-Broadway's contributions...