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Hottest Ticket. At the end of last season only three plays had even made their money back. Yet this season began with hit after hit. Playwright Neil Simon credits the British invasion with supplying the spark. "I think there are better plays here because of what London sent us the first half of the season. It got us going." Sure enough, no sooner had Peter Shaffer's Equus and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes settled in as enduring successes than Americans hit back with All Over Town and what has turned out to be the season...
...Shubert, thinks that angels should be allowed to deduct investments from their taxes and that the taxes paid by the Broadway area should be pumped back into it. Subsidies from public and private sources already support the flourishing nonprofit theaters that now feed Broadway. The most promising young playwrights have come from them too. Terrence McNally (Bad Habits, The Ritz) got his start at the Manhattan Theater Club. So did Mark Medoff (The Wager, When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?). It was New Haven's Long Wharf Theater that introduced the best young British playwrights. Sam Shepard, perhaps...
Died. Mary Ure, 42, cerebral, icily sensual British actress; of an apparent heart attack; in London. She first won wide attention as the wellborn, ill-used wife of an acid-tongued lout in Look Back in Anger, the 1956 marital psychomelodrama by her first husband, Playwright John Osborne. She went on to give other strong performances in films (Sons and Lovers) and on stage (Duel of Angels, Old Times), sometimes co-starring with her second husband, Actor-Playwright Robert Shaw...
...easy correspondence between stage and life was never better illustrated than in this failed Hungarian playwright who dreamed of moving characters around on an international stage. Pushed by adoring and wealthy parents, he first affected the manner of an élégant, contributing feuilletons to the European press and plays to the Viennese public. Vienna circa 1890 was his home, at a time when that capital seemed the confluence of all that was worldly and intoxicating. It was also, according to Elon, a Versuchsstation des Weltuntergänges (proving ground of world destruction...
...arrow accident that cost him one eye at the age of six, the loopy Columbus boyhood, the insuperable Midwestern chauvinism, the sexual shyness, the days as a code clerk at the U.S. embassy in Paris, the two dozen straight rejections by The New Yorker, the friendships with Playwright-Actor Elliot Nugent and E.B. White, the odd adversary relationship with New Yorker Editor Harold Ross...