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...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 the most promising young playwright, had his first success, The Tooth of Crime, at Princeton's McCarter Theater. Joe Papp is right when he says, "When you talk about good times...
...that if he does so, Ron will kill Ward within 48 hours. The resulting anarchy smacks of both the Marx brothers and Sleuth and produces two good performances, from Kenneth Oilman as Ward and Kristoffer Tabori as Leeds. Mark Medoff, whose play When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? was an off-Broadway success last season, has a rare talent for juxtaposing fear and fun. Though The Wager lacks enough emotional depth to make Medoff's high speed verbal games truly revealing of character and motive, this is his best play so far, and it seems to signal even...
...from others. Princeton Demographer Norman B. Ryder notes that "there is less likelihood of ethnic conflict when all groups are growing...
...Circle Repertory Theater Co., The Sea Horse is the third small triumph in a row, following the still-running When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? and The Hot I Baltimore. In the past couple of seasons C.R.T.C. has be come the most fecund off-off-Broadway group. Each of these productions made a successful transition to off-Broadway, a dramatic terrain that no longer bustles with the creative vitality it once...
...from time to time. The plot is infernally tangled and unrelieved by humor. There is a good, loud, nasty showdown in a subterranean garage, and an effectively brutal scene of a mass mob assassination. The Mafiosi, portrayed with almost parodistic seriousness by the likes of Martin Balsam and Alfred Ryder, hire Viet Nam veterans to do their dirty work, a bit of practicality that also passes for covert social comment. The Stone Killer concludes in sober fashion with a sermon on evil, which, we are told, is pervasive and unavoidable. Rather like Charles Branson-Michael Winner movies, apparently...