Word: viviane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...event, the stage makes different demands, and in the present instance Ullmann is simply not up to them. This is not entirely her fault. Her marvelously expressive face and luminous blue eyes perform exquisite miracles in camera closeups. In the vast spaces of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater these precious attributes, and their power to move, are lost...
Works by Scriabin, Szymanowski, Ranchmaninoff, Western, Berg, and Liszt; Vivian Taylor, pianist; Eliot Library, 8:30; free...
...cast is exemplary. In the key role of Alexander, Dick Anthony Williams strikes a plangent note of pain. The rest of the cast is incomparably finer than this derelict play deserves. Producer Joseph Papp, at whose Vivian Beaumont Theater Black Picture Show is being presented, demonstrates again his illusory belief in the power of drama to effect social change, and his un flinching generosity to a fledgling play wright by giving him a chance to begin, learn and try again...
Before Joseph Papp took over New York's problem-plagued Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1973, Brown was considered for the job, but insists he would not have taken it. Says he: "The director of Lincoln Center is a driven man." He adds, "I think all good work in the theater comes from relaxation. At Long Wharf I have New York exposure when I want it and a board of directors who understand that theater today, like opera and ballet, is not going to make money." Although Long Wharf now plays to 90% capacity in an eight-month season...
...barbed honesty that obviously unsettled some of the playgoers who hissed and booed it on opening night, as well as several of the critics. Declaring a personal auto-da-fe WNEW-TV's usually commonsensical critic Stewart Klein declared that he wished to burn Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater and Director-Producer Joseph Papp...