Word: staging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Act One (1963), the movie adaptation of the late Moss Hart's autobiography, traces the playwright's fruitful collaboration with George S. Kaufman, another giant of the Broadway stage. George Hamilton, Jason Robards and Eli Wallach star...
PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). The first of five original dramas, Certain Honorable Men, by Rod Serling, focuses on U.S. Congressmen caught in the vortex of national politics. The cast includes Pat Hingle, Van Heflin, Peter Fonda...
Jean Louis Barrault is one of the towering figures of the French stage. A brilliant mime and tragedian, he has also been a potent instigator of dramatic innovation as director of the Théâtre de France, giving world premières of works by such playwrights as Beckett, lonesco and Genet. Last week Barrault interrupted rehearsals at his company's permanent home, the Odéon Theater on Paris' Left Bank, to announce that he had been dismissed as its director. The coup de grâce was administered in a curt letter from...
PROMISES, PROMISES, by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple). Starring Jerry Orbach, the frenetic schnook from Scuba Duba. Directed by Robert Moore, who staged the off-Broadway hit The Boys in the Band. Stage version of the movie The Apartment...
...stage, with the forgetful dreamer shaped by Ionesco's sharp sense of the absurd, the predicament might be painfully funny. But on the page, with the writer as a troubled man snarled in the neurotic roots of his art, the situation is painfully embarrassing. It would be convenient if Ionesco were not such a compelling case of what Nietzsche, that specialist in soul diseases, diagnosed as an allergy to oneself...