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...while movies, dances, songs, and fads seemed parts of a conspiracy against reality, what was the role of theatre at Harvard? In the first place, there was very little on-campus theatre in 1939. The gap seems to have been filled by the thriving pre-Broadway plays at the Colonial Shubert, and Wilbur theaters; reviews of these plays appear at least weekly in The Crimson. But Broadway and, unfortunately, the Crimson reviewer were part of the anti-reality conspiracy. As Burns Mantle, compiler of The Best Plays of Broadway, puts it, 1939 was a "comedy year." The Crimson reviewer raves...
...courses he gives to undergraduates there. This week he has been at Harvard to offer benevolent advice and the salty insight of a rugged theater veteran to the Harvard cast of his new play Hardesty Park. The play opened last night in the Adams House dining room for its "pre-Broadway...
...SUGAR! David Merrick's gone and made Some Like It Hot into a musical and boy is it a dud. Now in pre-Broadway tryouts. Sugar has been on the road for over two months, trying to get up enough guts to show its face in New York. But by the looks of things Wednesday night, even if this show took a forty-year detour by way of the Sinai Desert it still wouldn't know where to go next...
Twigs, George Furth's new comedy now in pre-Broadway tryouts at the Wilbur, is as unassuming as its title would suggest. It sets forth a series of little mishaps, a quartet of marriages that have, however slightly, gone awry. Its characters are middle age and middle class. But in intention and effect the play itself is something more than middlebrow...
There are moments in Ron Field's revival of the show, now in a pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert, when the fears and melancholy surface--in distinct contrast to the prevailing air of foolishness and mock sophistication. Certainly most disturbing is the weirdly undefined dream sequence in the second act when Gabey imagines Miss Turnstyles as an unobtainable socialite, surrounded by Ronald Searle-like caricatures of the rich. But for the most part this revival's spirits are too blithe. It strives for a simple-minded innocence when real recognition of the forties' blend of hell-bent pleasure...