Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motion picture causing all the havoc is SWEET CHARITY starring Shirley MacLaine, Ricardo Montalban and Sammy Davis, Jr. It's now playing at the SAXON THEATER...
...Theater 7 production now running at the Park Square Motor Hotel, The Fantasticks is presented with zest and with an understanding of what this kind of half-serious Little Mary Sunshine romance is about. Boy and girl are beset by their conniving fathers, who arrange for a cowboy, a tired Shakespearian actor, and an Indian to stage a "quality rape" of girl so that boy may save her and their marriage may be lasting. This results in immense confusion, but the evils of the world and the power of Love are established on the way to a happy ending...
...with In the Matter of J. Rob ert Oppenheimer, Heinar Kipphardt of fers audiences at Lincoln Center's Vivi an Beaumont Theater the chance to weep over the renowned physicist who in 1954 was deprived of his security clearance. The three-man board rep resenting the Atomic Energy Commission sits in courtroom-style judgment as the testimony unfolds like an in terminable dream. Lawyers, friends, enemies discourse on Oppenheimer's Communist relations and friends, on his in spired leadership of the team of physicists who produced the atomic bomb, and on his reluctance to lend himself...
...question has often been asked: "What is Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark?" The answer may be found on the stage of Broadway's Lyceum Theater in Ellis Rabb's APA revival. Rabb is the definitive zombie Hamlet, a puppet rather than a mettlesome prince-passionless, prideless and bloodless. So supine is this Hamlet that he lies on the floor of the stage literally for minutes on end, making one wonder if he is in the royal castle at Elsinore or in an opium...
David Blocker, the oily minister in the Dollar Theater production, manages to convince you that his mind indeed flutters with the slightest breeze, and his cleverness serves his master only when it serves himself...