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...VISIT by Frederick Durenmatt, who's a highly regarded contemporary German playwright, and relizable sources say it's a fine play. It's the first production of an outfit called the New Phoenix Repertory Company. The old Phoenix Repertory Company was good, for whatever that's worth. Opens Monday at 7:30 p.m., at the Shubert Theater in Boston...
...weapon everyone is pointing at here is politics, specifically left-wing popular-front politics in the 1940s. The script by Playwright Arthur Laurents (Time of the Cuckoo) posits an improbable, if not preposterous relationship between a WASP jock-frat man (Robert Redford), who is, on the side, an incredibly sensitive writer, and a Jewish Stalinist campus radical (Barbra Streisand), who is, on the side, a novice earth mother. A great deal of pushing and hauling gets them from college to marriage to Hollywood in time for the anti-Red witch hunts. The purpose, one imagines, was to have the apolitical...
...Crown Matrimonial, British Playwright Royce Ryton qualifies as one of the grounds keepers of history. He rakes up a pile of yellowed 1936 newspaper clippings to reassemble the tale of how Edward VIII abdicated his kingship in order to marry "the woman I love...
...words of one State Department official, is "to make it more human." That is probably a forlorn hope. Honecker's government will under no circumstance allow the people to be tempted by anything more dangerous than blue jeans or bluegrass. Peter Hacks, the most important East German playwright since Bertolt Brecht, sums up the plight of his countrymen in his drama The Troubles and the Power...
...deserved. Hellman drank with the big boys, but held her liquor and her health. Her 30-year love affair with Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon) was the kind of tough-tender romance that Hemingway daydreamed about in his novels. Most important, she had a successful career as a playwright: twelve Broadway plays, eight of them hits, and one, The Little Foxes, a classic...