Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is a crucial phase of the war, one which a weak or ill-prepared power could lose. But it is not the decisive stage of a war between well-prepared major powers; it does not determine the final outcome of the war between them...
...disclosed in advance. At any rate, the work revolves about an extraordinarily fascinating and complex young woman named Virginia, who feels that she is "an enormous zero in the dead center of nothing." She is tormented by "three white night-mares," all of whom are personified on stage; and might well have echoed Shakespeare's Macbeth: "O, full of scorpions is my mind...
Well, I never thought I'd ever see James Mason singing, soft-shoeing, and straw-hatting his way through old vaudeville routines. But this is precisely what he is doing this week in his Boston stage debut. He evidently had the same yen that Sir Laurence Olivier recently satisfied in John Osborne's The Entertainer; and what's more, both Mason's material and performance are superior to Olivier...
...this stage of the game he ran into the Cult of Henry James. James, the Novelist's Novelist, is the fair-haired favorite in these parts. Almost totally unread elsewhere in America, James finds his audience in privately endowed universities and their reading lists. Even at the Summer School, James is the great brooding deity casting delicate thunder-bolts at America's literary nomads...
...Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...