Word: theater
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Americans who like to moan about the decline of U.S. theater and the rise of England's can point for proof to Broadway: no fewer than five of its current plays originated in London.* And more would seem to be on the way: London playgoers now have no fewer than 45 plays and musicals to view, compared with Broadway...
London has no Off Broadway; the once adventurous Royal Court Theater, since the death of Artistic Director George Devine, has been taken over by a feeble clique of conventionally minor playwrights and directors. In this vacuum, the tiny semisuburban, underbudgeted Hampstead Theater Club has attracted critical notice with its recent productions of two stimulatingly offbeat dramas: Tennessee Williams' Two Character Play (TIME, Dec. 22), and its currently featured Bakke's Night of Fame by Playwright John McGrath. In the latter, the action takes place in the death cell of a U.S. prison, where Bakke, awaiting electrocution at midnight...
Arthur Miller in The Price has written a museum piece of a play to match the set. In form, substance and attitude, his newest drama is vintage 1930s. Always inclined to use the theater as a preacher's pulpit, Miller sermonizes on his favorite themes: guilt, responsibility, and the way a man's identity is forged or warped by society's image of what he is or what he should be. In structure, though not in content, the central situation-the sibling rivalry of two brothers and their relationship to their father-somewhat resembles Miller...
Pirandello's Henry IV is a rich, in tricate tapestry of past and present, illusion and reality, love, jealousy and revenge, woven around a madman-hero - a philosopher-king on the grand scale of the philosopher-prince of Denmark. Admirably revived by the Yale School of Drama Repertory Theater, the 46-year-old play shimmers with existential immediacy...
...much gilding for the lily was the diagnosis-too much manner for the matter. "I had wanted it to be a simple thing," said Capote. This year, he decided to try it that way, at the 299-capacity Theater de Lys. "This is going to be the show we meant to present," said Truman. "If I'm going to lose, I want to lose...