Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also disclosed that, at the request of the Association, the city has already begun work on a parking area between the Yard and the University Theater...
University Theater (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath...
...Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Ronald Colman in Talk of the Town...
...week before Christmas, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson composed an open letter to Santa Claus (alias Billy Rose). All that Composer-Critic Thomson wanted in 1949 (from the hands of Producer Rose): "A really modern [medium-sized] operatic repertory theater ... a quality operation." As for grand opera, said Thomson: "Leave all those outsize 19th Century works" to the Metropolitan, "till they and the Met collapse together...
...asked for: modern, medium-sized opera. On Broadway, where Gian-Carlo Menotti's terrifying but tuneful The Medium (TIME, June 30, 1947) was holding spooky seances for sellout audiences, Benjamin Britten's pocket-sized opera, The Rape of Lucretia, opened in Billy Rose's Ziegfeld Theater...