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...simply, it is known as the APA, but on its way to excellence its title has grown longer. This season it be came the APA at the Phoenix, having joined forces with Manhattan's venture some Phoenix Theater production company. All three of its current productions, Man and Superman, War and Peace, Judith, are critical successes; performances in the 299-seat off-Broadway theater are sold out nearly every night, and last week the APA extended the three-play offering to September. Beginning next season, it plans to become the APA-Phoenix at the Lyceum. That is Broadway...
...Hamlet, Elena to Olivier's Dr. Astroff and Redgrave's Uncle Vanya. In the U.S., she played opposite Jason Robards in the 1958 Broadway production of The Disenchanted. The British-born, India-reared actress stars in War and Peace and Judith, plays Violet in Man and Superman at alternate performances, and she has left her mark. Her throaty, caressing voice purrs its way through her lush figure and emerges with girlish guilelessness from Natasha and passionate intensity from Judith, all the while giving the impression that it never really changed...
Despite her undimmable presence, however, the company can stand alone, and in proof of that, Rabb and three other troupe members, not including Miss Harris, performed the hour-long "Don Juan in Hell" scene from Man and Superman last week for TV's non-network Esso Repertory Theater. The fine hour-long performance should build the group's following just when it needs it. With a larger capacity next year in the Lyceum, the aim is to build this year's 7,500 subscribers to 20,000. At Michigan in late September the company will break...
...Toti, "that the comics have their own particular visible universality and are therefore democratic. It is true that during the war Tarzan left to fight Hitler, the Phantom was mobilized to fight the Japanese, and Mandrake engaged in counterespionage. It is true that Goebbels, when he found out that Superman had destroyed the Atlantic Wall with one of his krypto-rays, wrote: This Superman is a Jew!' " But Toti concludes on a properly proletarian note: "The great majority of the comics are in the hands of the monopolistic culture industry and are an integral part of a great machinery...
...League will just have to wait for another superman, and another fairy tale...