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Before Joseph Papp took over New York's problem-plagued Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1973, Brown was considered for the job, but insists he would not have taken it. Says he: "The director of Lincoln Center is a driven man." He adds, "I think all good work in the theater comes from relaxation. At Long Wharf I have New York exposure when I want it and a board of directors who understand that theater today, like opera and ballet, is not going to make money." Although Long Wharf now plays to 90% capacity in an eight-month season...
...playgoers who hissed and booed it on opening night, as well as several of the critics. Declaring a personal auto-da-fe WNEW-TV's usually commonsensical critic Stewart Klein declared that he wished to burn Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater and Director-Producer Joseph Papp...
...really. Estelle Parsons' magnificently wrung-out performance as Mert would alone save it from that. The easy and obvious charge to bring against Mert and Phil is bad taste, but it, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. More than likely, the play and Joseph Papp are being lambasted for presenting subjects that audiences deeply dread facing: the corruption of the flesh, the death of love, and growing old in bleak utter loneliness. There may be too little craft in Mert and Phil, but there is undeniable courage...
Much Ado About Nothing. The highly-acclaimed Joseph Papp adaptation of Shakespeare, set in World War I America. Ch. 2, 7 p.m. 3 hours...
...Manhattan. The church got a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to produce Piñero's Short Eyes. Short Eyes -prison slang for a child molester -plays out the ostracism and eventual murder of a prison newcomer charged with the one intolerable crime. Papp first saw the Riverside production at the urging of Actress Colleen Dewhurst, who had become interested in the group while it was forming. The play opened last month at the Public Theater to solidly favorable reviews. As drama, it is rough and repetitive; its considerable impact comes from the sheer...