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...Jungle of Cities is also one of Brecht's less worthwhile plays. Its chief value probably lies in its encouragement to young playwrights who feel awed by Brecht's maturity. A sort of Two Gentlemen of Verona for Marxists, or something. 369, a new Cambridge company, gives it a better production than it deserves. A pan that is probably too kind probably appears on page two. 369 Center, off Washington Street near Union Square...
ONLY two playwrights have more than one hit currently running on Broadway: William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing and Two Gentlemen of Verona) and Neil Simon (The Prisoner of Second Avenue and one of TIME'S top ten of 1972, The Sunshine Boys). When Mr. Shakespeare's representative announced that he was unavailable, Associate Editor Stefan Kanfer settled for an interview with Neil Simon. At 45, Simon retains the astonished demeanor of a man who has just heard a loud noise. It is probably the sound of a cosmic cash register. In nine years Simon has become...
...Broadway's 34 theaters were dark last week. Of the 18 in business, only a handful-including those housing the musicals Pippin and Two Gentlemen of Verona and the plays Butley and That Championship Season -were taking in enough at the box office to make a profit for the shows and for themselves. (Broadway theaters do not charge rent from producers, but take 25% of the box office gross.) Just to rub things in, some 23 national touring companies of past seasons' hits like Jesus Christ Superstar and No, No, Nanette are outdrawing Broadway productions for the first...
LOEB EX. Two Gentlemen of Verona...
...canto opera puts everyone to the test, including the audience. Norma, for example, is one of those static abstracts that-like most neo-Roman architecture-more often command respect than love. That Sutherland, Capobianco and Designer José Verona could infuse it with any passion at all was testimony to the peculiar alchemy of opera when it is defying both the gods and the arts...