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...flip farce All Over Town, and Elizabeth Ashley returned triumphantly in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The British sent over a generation of stars, including Alec McCowen and Diana Rigg playing together with the finesse of the Lunts in The Misanthrope, John Wood portraying a rapier-sharp Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Hopkins and Peter Firth in the psychological tour de force Equus. Even Liv Ullmann turned up, though in a disappointing production of A Doll's House; her presence gave the season an extra glow...
...Simon credits the British invasion with supplying the spark. "I think there are better plays here because of what London sent us the first half of the season. It got us going." Sure enough, no sooner had Peter Shaffer's Equus and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Sherlock Holmes settled in as enduring successes than Americans hit back with All Over Town and what has turned out to be the season's hottest ticket, Bernard Slade's exercise in extra-conjugal domesticity, Same Time, Next Year. But the sleepers of the season-indeed, the main reason...
...regret net having attributed the "cows and bulls" quotation to James Reston. otherwise I stand by my story. --Diane L. Sherlock...
Sleuth, Friday through Sunday, March 14-16, 7:30 and 11:15 (no late show Sunday), and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon...
...Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 4, 7:50 p.m.; Young and innocent, 6:25, 10:20 p.m., through Sunday...