Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your April 4 issue, was surprised to read that Clifford Odets' The Big Knife" is doing a brisk business on Broadway." According to TIME's theater critic, as well as other critics, it was ... a very bad play. Evidently the public does not think it is too awful...
...Odets may speak softly to Astrologer Holmes, but he had to shout to be heard above the tumult at the Waldorf. Meanwhile, theatergoers certainly have been reaching to hear what he has to say at the National Theater...
Tickets are no sale at Phillips Brooks House and the Coops for the play, to be given at 8:30 p.m. May 6 and 7 at Agassiz Theater. Mail orders are now being accepted at Holyoke...
Robinson Jeffers, American poet and anther has written a new version of Enripides' "Medea" and has made the Greek tragedy excellent modern theater fare. This is quite an accomplishment, but the success is not all Mr. Jeffers', nor did he intend it so. The "free adaptation" was written expressly for Judith Anderson. Mr. Jeffers has done double service to the theater in giving it an actable version of "Medea" and giving Miss Anderson an opportunity to make theater history...
...demands put upon an audience by a Greek tragedy; the number of mythological allusions and images is small and the diction is tuned for modern ears. It's a pity that the writer, who has a good sense of dramatic values, has no lyrical gift. Mr. Jeffers has had theater greatness thrust upon him by Miss Anderson...