Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidates in the Senate are having a great deal of trouble keeping their luster in the current squabble over Democratic Party policy (see The Congress) and are suffering from overexposure to the voters. Aspiring Governors cannot claim to influence foreign policy, but they have not got onto the national stage enough to be boring; most of them have submitted balanced budgets, and all have tested their executive mettle in dealing with their legislatures...
Dramatic Opulence. That Gloria and "Stoky" could never see eye to eye on the children had been apparent to friends for a long time. After she divorced him (because, as a friend says, "she found she didn't need a father, and wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world...
Spain & Portugal. Both nations are now in the restless stage before an aging strongman surrenders authority (after 27 years for Salazar, 22 for Franco). But in each, the anxiety to avoid violence will probably prevent a revolution-or the injection of much democracy...
Both Smithers and Landau should be made to listen to the Queen Mab vocal scherzetto and orchestral scherzo from Berlioz' "dramatic symphony" Romeo and Juliet before Smithers sets foot on the Festival stage again. In fact, no director should essay this play until he has studied all of the Berlioz masterpiece, the only work based on Shakespeare's play that surpasses the original. Significantly, in his Sunday appraisal of this production, the New York Times' Brooks Atkinson was also moved to invoke the Berlioz work. Although he made some inaccurate statements about both Berlioz and his symphony, his basic point...
David Hays has designed suitable movable additions to Rouben Ter-Arutunian's flexible basic stage, so that the swiftly changing geographical demands of the text do not inflict between-the-scenes waiting. Tharon Musser's lighting is admirable, particularly the moon-swept night lighting...