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MOST NOURISHING DRAMA: Laurence Olivier and Britain's National Theater in Long Day's Journey into Night (ABC) and Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing...
...nomination. What animates the new theater management at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-whose first production this is - is love of the U.S. playwright, especially the young playwright of promise in his tough apprenticeship years. In offering that nourishing brand of love, Lincoln Center's new producer Joseph Papp has no peer...
...Papp's takeover is contingent upon the raising of $5,000,000 to offset part of the theater's expected deficits in the next five years. If that barrier is successfully passed, Papp will bring in his own company. He plans to turn the 299-seat Forum Theater into a permanent platform for Shakespeare and switch the larger, 1,140-seat Vivian Beaumont from its present repertory of classics and revivals to new plays that "reflect the great issues of our times...
...news, the second of a series of dramas that Papp was producing for CBS, Sticks and Bones, was yanked off the network schedule three days before air time. The winner of last year's Tony Award, David Rabe's play is a bitter but brilliant satire of conventional American attitudes toward the war in Viet Nam. It was too harsh for many of CBS's affiliate stations, which screened it in a closed-circuit transmission from the network. Although pre-reviews had already appeared in the national press (TIME, March 12), a total...
Cowardice. Papp condemned the network's decision as "a cowardly act, a dastardly thing. It is frightening that this monster corporation has decided to put its tail between its legs and back away from this program because some affiliates find it too strong stuff." Papp argued that CBS should have aired the play even if it was carried only by the stations it owns in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis. The American Civil Liberties Union joined him in the attack, accusing the network of "corporate cowardice" that betrayed both the artists producing the show...