Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gielgud is currently appearing in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Ernest," at the Plymouth Theater in Boston. This is his first American season of comedy...
Next opportunity for the University to hear the famed organization will be in the annual Sanders Theater concerts at the end of March...
...taking some of the spirit of innovation she picked up as one of the founders of the experimental Group Theater and adding to it the sound showmanship she developed during her lengthy sojourn with the Theater Guild, Cheryl Crawford has repeatedly managed to combine originality with professional slickness in her productions. Such was the case with "One Touch of Venus," with the American Repertory Theater, and now with "Brigadoon," a musical fantasy beautifully set in the Scottish highlands by Oliver Smith and full of brilliant Agnes De Mille Scottish dances...
...kind of show, however, that needs a little time to get in the groove, and you would be wise to wait until the middle of next week if you want to see it at its best. New musicians, new theater, cuts and revisions, and adjusting timing to the vagaries of Boston audiences can throw musicals, which depend on speed and precision, into a kind of half-hearted tailspin, and "Brigadoon" shows symptoms of such ailments this week...
Behind the play's success, however, is the performance and direction of Mr. Gielgud. Whether he is dressed in morning for his undeceased and indeed imaginary brother Earnest or merely struggling with the force of Lady Bracknell, Gielgud is worth an evening at the theater...