Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noon-1 p.m.). In the first segment of a program observing the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Roberta Peters talks with music critics and Commentator Martin Bookspan about her travels in Israel. Part II, entitled "Habima 50," tells the story of the 50-year-old Israeli National Theater...
...THEATER...
KING LEAR. The consummate skill of Lee J. Cobb has elevated Lear's pain into a kinship of the spirit. The play is by far the best work the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has ever offered. It is distinguished by a supporting cast that truly supports, and is a tribute to the artistry of Director Gerald Freedman...
...founders had in mind. The great artistic companies it houses-the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet-are independent operations that have a cooperative tenant-landlord relationship with the center itself. On its own, the center has sponsored only the repertory theater-an esthetic as well as a financial disaster during most of its history-educational programs and special events such as the summer festivals, which have never shown a profit. Because of the vast fund-raising campaigns undertaken to create Lincoln Center, it has almost reached the exhaustion point in finding new sources...
...uneven in control and focus, all suggest a remarkable investment of energy. There results a sense of restrained favor in the playing which makes up for occasional lapses in comic timing. A great deal of good-natured conviction appears on stage inSchweyk, and from the standpoint again of didactic theater, nothing is so important as this. John Tatlock as Schweyk and Gerard Shepherd as his gluttonous companion Baloun are admirable, though I wished in each case for certain qualities of size, and especially of what can only be called earthiness--which only actors of considerably more age and experience...