Word: shubert
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Nevertheless, Jacobs is backing Papp's efforts; this season the Shubert organization gave Papp's off-off-Broadway Public Theater $150,000 to present ten new playwrights. The grants reflect the change in Shubert, the multimillion-dollar real-estate empire. As landlord of 16% Broadway houses, it was for decades a powerful and increasingly neglectful influence. In 1972, Broadway's blackest year, Shubert was hit hard. It even seemed likely that many Broadway houses would be replaced by office buildings but for the kind of chance known as "actor's luck"; the theater slump had coincided...
Almost every producer believes some form of government help is necessary. Papp and Producer David Merrick opt for straight subsidies. Gerald Schoenfeld, co-executive director of Shubert, thinks that angels should be allowed to deduct investments from their taxes and that the taxes paid by the Broadway area should be pumped back into it. Subsidies from public and 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...
Private Lives is the highest level of British fluff, written by Noel Coward, directed by John Gielgud, starring Maggie Smith and John Standing. A custardy respite from reading period. At the Shubert Theater through Saturday night only...
...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 over...
...KEYS, by Noel Coward, is at the Shubert Theater in Boston, which seems like a long way to have to go for comic relief...