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...Playwright Lillian Hellman will be a guests of Adams House this Spring and will teach a non-credit course, "A Seminar in Writing," for residents of the House...
...ideal forum for his views, and he made the monthly one of the nation's most persuasive organs of Protestant opinion. Even after he retired two years ago, Poling stayed active as head of the Christian Herald Charities, which operates the 83-year-old Bowery Mission. Playwright Robert Sherwood once said of Poling that "the whole United States is his parish." It might better have been said, the whole world...
London has no Off Broadway; the once adventurous Royal Court Theater, since the death of Artistic Director George Devine, has been taken over by a feeble clique of conventionally minor playwrights and directors. In this vacuum, the tiny semisuburban, underbudgeted Hampstead Theater Club has attracted critical notice with its recent productions of two stimulatingly offbeat dramas: Tennessee Williams' Two Character Play (TIME, Dec. 22), and its currently featured Bakke's Night of Fame by Playwright John McGrath. In the latter, the action takes place in the death cell of a U.S. prison, where Bakke, awaiting electrocution at midnight...
...reasonably serious writer: his credentials, if haphazard, are all in order. Although he has taken time out to run for Congress as a Democrat in 1960 and to haunt television panels as a sort of sexy Schlesinger or political Capote, he has always been primarily a working novelist (Julian), playwright (Visit to a Small Planet), and critic (Rocking the Boat...
Little Josephine (Joe) Egg sags in a wheelchair, wets herself, whimpers a little, rarely opens her eyes, and has periodic fits. There are no jokes made about any of that. But the child's absence is her presence; an inert object, she is the playwright's catalytic agent for fusing, exploring and exploding the relationships and attitudes of the people around her. That is where the chemistry of laughter begins...