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These are flaws of excess, however, not misdirection, and as the cast adjusts to the new location they may disappear. Either way, this production has an abundance of invention, mirroring Shakespeare's that insures its success. Making fun of the playwright is a dangerous game for directors; it runs the risk of suggesting to audiences that there's no value to the play, and no point in staging it. But Belgrader manages to ridicule Shakespeare's implements with the same stroke that affirms his comic genius...
...Playwright Tennessee Williams is madder than a cat on a hot tin roof about the reviews that crumpled his Clothes for a Summer Hotel as soon as it opened on Broadway last March. "I'll never open a play in New York again," he vows. Williams is therefore discussing an alliance with the Goodman Theater in Chicago, hoping the city that raved about the premiere of his first play, The Glass Menagerie, will once again be his kind of town. "This move was forced on me," insists the Pulitzer prizewinner. "I can't get good press from...
Into a cast of major and minor sinners strides Richmond in the fifth act, as a model of saintly sanity (again inaccurate history on the playwright's part). From what he has to do in the role it is impossible to gauge the acting ability of Michael O'Hare, but he does possess a warm and beautiful voice. His main function is to fight Richard to the death. So we have Moriarty, Dartmouth '63, pitted against O'Hare, Harvard '74. After too brief a bit of swordplay, Harvard wins and will ascend the throne as Henry...
...hope to return the magazine to solvency by converting it to a nonprofit organization, which will bring tax breaks and reduced postal rates. MacArthur family members note that John D. saved a money loser called Theater Arts magazine in 1950. Its editor was his older brother, Newsman-Playwright Charles MacArthur, who wrote The Front Page...
DIED. C. (for Charles) P. (for Percy) Snow, 74, English scientist, civil servant, playwright and novelist whose writing probed the conflicts of power and conscience; of a perforated gastric ulcer; in London (see BOOKS...