On Stage
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
On STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley Openings on And off Broadway ? Pictures in the Hallway. Adapted by Paul Shyre. From the autobiography of Sean O'Casey. Directed by Stuart Vaughan. Sundays at the...
...Miss Dewhurst restores some of the pristine glow to the old melodrama...
...Here is a Joan both human and divine...
...Here the farce is at its best, in the hands of fine performers...
...The reading of Sean O'Casey's autobiographical Pictures in the Hallway takes Sundays at the Playhouse...
...Sundays at the Playhouse...
...Three productions, highly varied in scope, serve warning to the commercial theater that it had better look to its quality...
...prosaically, to the excellent lighting and production, some to the shrewd and savorous play...
...the Royal Danish Ballet takes the month at the Metropolitan...
...At the Metropolitan Opera House...
...We can also believe that at times if not a halo, at least a radiance comes to shine over her, emanating from the undaunted and holy spirit of the maid...
...M. Duval has come filled with scorn for the woman who is fleecing his son...
...At the Cherry Lane Theater...
...The combined work of these and Siobhan McKenna is sustained by a goodly crew: Ian Keith, Kent Smith...
...In the large chorus of Scotch lads and lassies, the sylphides—in Bournonville's La Sylphide, not Les Sylphides, which is more familiar to us—there is a flow of beauty that animates and illuminates the whole...
...At the Phoenix Theater...
...It is perhaps the most integrated unit of dance New York has had...
...Aline MacMahon, for the most part playing the mother- though she has a superb bit as a fishwife dealer in broken dishes and pots—brings the women to rugged life...
...Meanwhile, off-Broadway has dramatically inaugurated its drama season...
...Adapted by Henriette Metcalf...
...the play, Dumas's Camille...
...T. Edward Hambleton and Norris Houghton present the Cambridge Drama Festival Production...
...By Bernard Shaw...
...And Miss Dewhurst makes the most of it...
...Chief of the September arrivals is the best Joan of Arc play...
...both are non-dramatic...
...Camille...
...Thayer David and others, vividly moving in roles that make this a memorable production of a searching and searing drama...
...This is as it should be...
...At the Barbizon-Plaza Theater...
...Earle Hyman, Michael Wager...
...Most of the fun comes from the naturally but satirically developed contrast between the two young men, half-brothers but one grown up in the United States, the other in Soviet Russia...
...A commonplace triangle is deftly handled, with neat lines and humorous acting...
...Some of the credit for that radiance must go...
...We are too prone to watch a virtuoso and forget the work of art...
...George Brenlin makes a most appealing picture of the boy, growing up in Dublin, becoming aware of women and beauty and the need of freedom, as young John Cassidy turns into Sean O'Casey...
...We can believe that she persuaded them to give her horse and armor, that she swayed the cynics and schemers near the Dauphin, that she inspired the troops of France...
...Pulling a poor cast and an awkward translation up with her...
...Presented by Columbia Artists Management, in association with Howard Lanin...
...Presented by Felix G. Gerstman...
...Her intense portrait captures the imminence of death, yet works her love into a strange happiness in her dying...
...The language is lilting, rich with deft surprise...
...Siobhan McKenna is a peasant girl who one can believe would infuse resolve into the uncouth soldiers...
...Joan...
...There seem to be no stars—individually, some of the dancers surpass the soloists...
...The actress is Colleen Dewhurst...
...Go see the Danish Royal Ballet and enjoy its art...
...Rae Allen is vividly attractive in the roles of two young girls...
...he goes with a heart heavy with pity and recognition of the sacrifice she is making...
...Rendezvous in Vienna...
...It comes across as a series of vignettes, partly amusing, mainly touching, occasionally poignant...
...O'Casey's volume has been arranged for a narrator (Staats Cotsworth) and five readers...
...Earl Montgomery, Paul Sparer...
...There is still life in this prototype of all the movies to which women go to enjoy a good cry...
...First came a farce in German, Rendezvous in Vienna, enacted by the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt, once directed by Bernhardt and preserving his tradition...
...By Alexandre Dumas fils...
...A fine performer saves the values of a French play, presented in English...
...Bernard Shaw's, in one of the best productions...
...By Fritz Eckhardt...
...Two September openings have graced the Broadway scene...
...The various special numbers, as in the divertissements of Graduation Ball, are pleasantly performed, but always it is the work as a whole that sways one...
...collectively, their ensembles are superb...
...Oddly, her best moments come not in the scenes with her beloved Armand, but in the gripping confrontation with his father...
...Presented by Wayne Richardson...
...The best thing to say of the Danish Royal Ballet is: Go see it...
...She should not be off-Broadway for very long...
...She gives up her life as she gives up her love...
...Royal Danish Ballet...
Vol. 39 • October 1956 • No. 40
