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...street to pick up Louis Sevilitti. They drive in silence to the Essex Delicatessen or a similar all-night restaurant where they know all the "regulars" and where Joe orders a bagel and tea, Louis coffee and an English. Then they make their way down Atlantic Ave, to the wharf where Louis' boat, the Salvatore, is moored, and motor out past the airport in the sunrise...
...implication is lost in the metic ulous revival at the Long Wharf Theater, which tenderly evokes the Millers' tribal intimacy. Even so, the play could have been cut. Dick is too fragile a character to sustain interest, and his mooncalfing is made graceless by O'Neill's wooden dialogue. But Arvin Brown's staging has a rich visual impact reminiscent of Fellini. A dwarf of a maid scuttles around the dinner table, which is dominated by a jolly drunken uncle (John Braden) sucking on lobster shells. Button-nosed Spinster Teresa Wright alternately gig gles and blushes...
...year-old Yale drama school graduate, Arvin Brown was "burning to direct" when in 1965 he helped start the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn. And for his own professional debut in the converted warehouse in the city's food terminal, he bit off what most veterans fear to chew, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey, perhaps America's best play...
...eclectic, adventurous choice of plays soon put Long Wharf into the forefront of regional theaters. Brown himself emerged as a likely heir to the late Tyrone Guthrie, the swashbuckling repertory advocate who in 1958 moved to Minneapolis and fired up the U.S. regional-theater movement. Apart from the obligatory classics, Brown digs out such unlikely playwrights as D.H. Lawrence (The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd) and Maxim Gorky (Country People). "Gorky's plays are particularly interesting today. His people are activists, revolutionaries...
...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, it has a mulish deficit of $400,000. Still, Brown...