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AuthorBeals, Carelton
AuthorBeals, Carleton
AuthorBEARD, CHARLES A.
AuthorBEARD, Prof. CHARLES A.
AuthorBECK, CURT
AuthorBeck, Elmer A.
AuthorBEDAU, HUGO ADAM
AuthorBeebee
AuthorBEECH, OSCAR STEFANI and ALEXANDRA
AuthorBeedie, William
AuthorBeffel, John Nicholas
AuthorBEICHMAN, ARNOLD
AuthorBEISER, VINCE
AuthorBelfer, Nathan
AuthorBELKNAP, ROBERT
AuthorBELL, AARON
AuthorBELL, DAMEL
AuthorBELL, DANIEI
AuthorBELL, DANIEL
AuthorBELL, MADISON
AuthorBELL, PEAL K.
AuthorBELL, PEARL K
AuthorBELL, PEARL K.
AuthorBELL, PHILIP W.
AuthorBellamy, Edward
AuthorBELLIN, LOWELL E.
AuthorBelsky, Ben
AuthorBEN-GURION, DAVID
AuthorBENDINER, ROBERT
AuthorBendix, William
AuthorBENDIXEN, ALFRED
AuthorBENEDEK, EMILY
AuthorBENELMO
AuthorBenes, Eduard
AuthorBENES, JAN
AuthorBenet, Stephen Vincent
AuthorBENNETT, FAY
AuthorBENNETT, JOHN W.
AuthorBENSON, ELMER A.
AuthorBenson, Governor Elmer A.
AuthorBENSON, GOVERNOR ELMER E.
AuthorBENSON, MARY
AuthorBent, Silas
AuthorBENTLEY, ERIC
AuthorBENTON, WILLIAM
AuthorBERCZELLER, PAUL
AuthorBEREK, PETER
AuthorBeremberg, David P.
AuthorBERENBAUM, MICHAEL
AuthorBerenberg, D. P.
AuthorBerenberg, David P.
AuthorBerge, Wendell
AuthorBERGER, ARNOLD ABRAMS \ DONALD SHANOR \ JOHN COTTIN \ MICHAEL
AuthorBERGER, BENNETT M.
AuthorBERGER, JAMES CRITCHLOW/MICHAEL
AuthorBERGER, MARK HOPKINS \ MIcHAEL
AuthorBERGER, MICHAEL
AuthorBERGER, MORROE
AuthorBERGER, ROGER MANN \ ELIAHU SALPETER \ MICHAEL
AuthorBERGER, SILVIO F. SENIGALLIA \ WALTER GOODMAN \ MIKE BERNICK \ MICHAEL
AuthorBERGER, THOMAS
AuthorBERGER, TOM HENEGHAN \ RUSSELL WARREN HOWE \ MICHAEL
AuthorBerger, Victor L.
AuthorBerger, Victor M.
AuthorBERGMAN, ANDREW
AuthorBERGMAN, ELIHU
AuthorBERGMAN, MAIUS
AuthorBerle, A. A.
AuthorBerle, A. A. Jr.
AuthorBERLE, ADOLF A.
AuthorBERLE, ADOLF A. Jr.
AuthorBERLEJR., ADOLF A.
AuthorBERLIN, ISAIAH
AuthorBERMAN, HAROLD J.
AuthorBerman, Morris.
AuthorBERMAN, PAUL
AuthorBerman, Sol
AuthorBERMEG, ALBERT
AuthorBERMEL, ALBERT
Paid articleThe Tireless Author (November 2004)
The Tireless Author V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life By Jeremy Treglown Random. 352 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Playwright, critic; author, "Shakespeare at the Moment: Playing...
Paid articleTaking Shakespeare to a New Stage (May 2002)
Taking Shakespeare to a New Stage Hamlet's Dresser By Bob Smith Scribner. 287 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Author, "Shakespeare at the Moment: Playing the Comedies" Bob Smith...
Paid articleMaster of the Monologue (November 2001)
Master of the Monologue Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey By Janet Malcolm Random. 210 pp. $23.95. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Author, "Shakespeare at the Moment: Playing the Comedies" In...
Paid articleArt and Life in Apposition (December 1999)
Art and Life in Apposition Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy By Stephen A. Black Yale. 544 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Playwright, translator and professor emeritus of...
Paid articleAn Excess of Talent (December 1990)
An Excess of Talent Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940 By Wendy Smith Knopf. 482 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Professor of Theater, Lehman College;...
Paid articleDo Film Actors Act? (September 1986)
Culture Watching DO FILM ACTORS ACT? BY ALBERT BERMEL SCREEN VERSUS STAGE: Pictures versus talk; close-ups of lips, eyeballs, fingers, feet versus entire bodies; actual versus factitious scenery;...
Paid articleStages on Life's Way (June 1986)
Stages on Life's Way Entrances: An American Director's Journey By Alan Schneider Viking. 416 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Playwright, translator; professor of theater, City...
Paid articleMan with a Mission (December 1975)
Man with a Mission The Culture Watch: Essays on Theater and Society, 1969-1974 By Robert Brustein Knopf. 197 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Playwright, associate professor of theater,...
Paid articleGRAPE JUICE AND WINE (June 1974)
On Stage GRAPEJUICE AND WINE BY ALBERT BERMEL Ever since early 1957 when Candide, "a comic operetta based on Voltaire's satire," ended a brief run at the Martin Beck Theater, fans of Leonard...
Paid articleREFURBISHED CLASSICS (April 1974)
On Stage REFURBISHED CLASSICS BYA LBERT BERMEL T M. he Young Vic's Scapino provided a rare reminder that theater can be the most reciprocal of the arts. The performers so blatantly enjoyed...
Paid articleTHOSE TWO DAMNED POETS (April 1974)
On Stage THOSE TWO DAMNED POETS BY ALBERT BERMEL The first-act curtain scene of Christopher Hampton's Total Eclipse (Chelsea Theater, Brooklyn Academy) shows us Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud...
Paid articleRichard the Fecund (February 1974)
On Stage RICHARD THE FECUND BY ALBERT BERMEL As soon as it begins, the Royal Shakespeare Company's Richard II (Brooklyn Academy of Music) declares itself a performance, not a recital of history....
Paid articleOn Stage (February 1974)
On Stage UNFINISHED MIRACLE BY ALBERT BERMEL The City Center Acting Company, an ensemble made up of the first class of graduates ('72) from the Juilliard School of Drama, has a hope chest of...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1974)
On Stage THE ICEMAN MELTETH BY ALBERT BERMEL MAYBE IT'S time for The Iceman Cometh to go back in the freezer until some imaginative director turns up and liberates it from its author With...
Paid articleOn Stage (December 1973)
On Stage LIBRA AND THE MOON BY ALBERT BERMEL THE HEROINE of David Ra ce's Boom Boom Room (Vivian Beaumont) is Chrissie, a Libra who longs to lead an orderly life, as balanced as the scales of...
Paid articleSelling the Actors Short (November 1973)
On Stage SELLING THE ACTORS SHORT BY ALBERT BERMEL As in his novel Rosemary's Baby, Ira Levin sets up an isolated woman as a target in Veronica's Room (Music Box), and then lets wicked people...
Paid articleIbsen in Connecticut (November 1973)
On Stage IBSEN IN CONNECTICUT BY ALBERT BERMEL In a time when commercial theater is wasting away in New York, and off-off-Broadway appears, at best, to be regrouping its efforts, the city of New...
Paid articleNo Camels, No Toreadors (October 1973)
On Stage NO CAMELS NO TOREADORS BY ALBERT BERMEL In many ways Broadway musicals haven't altered in the half-century since The Desert Song opened. Most of the lyrics in any show still sound like...
Paid articleMacbeth Bewitched (September 1973)
On Stage MaCBETH BEWITCHED by albert bermel Macbeth is a role that readily tilts. It can be played as Hamlet shattered by his internal combustion; as Lear pitted against man and nature; as...
Paid articleThe Missing Father (July 1973)
On Stage THE MISSING FATHER BY ALBERT BERMEL Because Chekhov's full-length plays each contain five to ten fat parts, they are always being coveted for all-star revivals of the kind Mike Nichols...
Paid articleHoss Opera and Mozart (June 1973)
On Stage HOSSOPERA AND MOZART BY ALBERT BERMEL Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime has won an Obie award, but don't let that fool you; it is a fine piece of theater with an almost classical agon...
Paid articleFrom Greece to America (June 1973)
On Stage FROMGREECE TO AMERICA by albert bermel s W uddenly the House of Atre-us is flourishing again, and open to visitors. The old foundations stand, but the upper floors have undergone...
Paid articlePirandello's Royal Nut (April 1973)
On Stage PIRANDELLO'S ROYAL NUT BY ALBERT BERMEL Rex Harrison is not an actor whom one instinctively thinks of to undertake Pirandello's Enrico Quattro. But it seems he has had his eye on that...
Paid articleThe Muzak of Venice (April 1973)
On Stage THE MUZAK OF VENICE BY ALBERT BERMEL In the Ellis Rabb production of The Merchant of Venice, which recently finished a limited run at the Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater,...
Paid articleBlack Heroics (March 1973)
On Stage BLACK HEROICS BY ALBERT BERMEL As more and more black American plays have emerged in the past 12-15 years, white critics have repeatedly pointed out that they seem wedded to outdated...
Paid articleMedea in Negative (March 1973)
On Stage MEDEA IN NEGATIVE BY ALBERT BERMEL At the previous Circle in the Square on Bleecker Street, where Michael Cacoyannis once contrived bloodless versions of The Trojan Women and Iphigenia...
Paid articleO'Casey and the Rising (February 1973)
On Stage O'CASEY AND THE RISING BY ALBERT BERMEL Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (at the Vivian Beaumont through February 10) has an extraordinary final scene. Two English soldiers sit in...
Paid article10 Conditions for a National Theather (January 1973)
On Stage 10 CONDITIONS FOR A NATIONAL THEATER BY ALBERT BERMEL The commercial, centralized theater is going down the drain, and we all know why. Costs have gotten out of hand, pushing ticket...
Paid articleGoing Down to Come Up (May 1972)
Going Down to Come Up Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey Through Madness By Mary Barnes and Joseph Berke Harcourt Bi ace Jovanovich 351 pp $7 50 Reviewed by Albert Bermel Playwright,...
Paid articleA Model of Pluralist Criticism (December 1970)
A Model of Pluralist Criticism Iago: Some Approaches to the Illusion of His Motivation By Stanley Edgar Hyman Atheneum 180 pp $5 95 Reviewed by Albert Bermel Playwright, translator, former...
Paid articleThis Is About You (May 1970)
This Is About You "Kaspar" and Other Plays By Peter Handke Translated by Michael Roloff Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 140 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Playwright, translator, former theater...
Paid articlePirates of the West (May 1969)
Pirates of the West THE STUDIO By John Gregory Dunne Farrar, Straus & Giroux 255 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by ALBERT BERMEL God knows when I last saw a Hollywood picture. It must have been The...
Paid articlePeter Brook's Immediacy (December 1968)
Peter Brook's Immediacy THE EMPTY SPACE By Peter Brook Atheneum. 141 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by ALBERT BERMEL Peter Brook must be the envy of young directors, and ought to be their model. He goes...
Paid articleOn Theater (October 1968)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Our Theater of Cruelty This is my last theater column for The New Leader. Rather than sign off with a valedictory, a roundup of reviews, or a pronouncement on the State...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1968)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Play Money What it takes nowadays to get people into a playhouse! As the age of leisure lumbers forward, resident theater companies have to go to ridiculous lengths to...
Paid articleOn Stage (August 1968)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel King Planchon Several years ago, in writing about William Ball's fluffy staging of Tartuffe, I complained that Larry Gates was unfunny as Or-gon and that the play's main...
Paid articleOn Stage (June 1968)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Verdi As Dramatist Not long ago the Actors Studio asked a private audience to a project-in-progress, a drastically new interpretation of La Traviata. Walt Witcover, the...
Paid articleOn Theater (May 1968)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Heroic Hypocrites At the Circle in the Square you quickly see and hear why scholars rate Iphigenia in Aulis an inferior work of Euripides. It is not so much that the...
Paid articleOn Stage (April 1968)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Blood of Drama The American Place Theater has made another important find, Ed Bullins, author of three one-acts, The Electronic Nigger and Others, which recently...
Paid articleOn Stage (April 1968)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Chekhov By Design The apa's new, old-fashioned production of The Cherry Orchard (Lyceum) avoids the haw-haw-haw, landed-gentry excesses of the Cheltenham-English style,...
Paid articleOn Stage (March 1968)
Jakov Lind's Double moments of theatricality. One of the two protagonists, Wurz, is determined to smile for the first time in his life. He succeeds in pulling his lips into a horizontal line with a...
Paid articleOn Stage (February 1968)
ON STAGE By A Ibert Bermel The Pity of It All The evocation of pity has led to so many playwriting sins and misdemeanors that I refuse to believe Aristotle ever put it on a par with terror, that...
Paid articleOn Stage (February 1968)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Force of Joan When a play with an extraordinary role is performed, something strange happens that can only be guessed at from reading the script Shaw's Joan of Arc,...
Paid articleTalking It Up (January 1968)
WRITERS/^WRITING Talking It Up By Albert Bermel Norman Podhoretz has not lived a life; he has been inhabited by a career. In Making It (Random House, 360 pp., $6.95) he chronicles his rise from...
Paid articleThe Blacklist in Reverse (November 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Blacklist in Reverse One of the long-term puzzles of the New York theater is the rationale behind the second-night list So far as I can discover after four years of...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Unstaging of Hamlet Shortly before the first-act curtain of Aften the Ram (John Golden Theater), the characters gaze out from the deck of their latter-day ark and...
Paid articleOn Stage (October 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Father As Fate And so Goldberg the Jew, whose first name is Nat or Simie or Benny, and McCann the Irishman, whose first name may or may not be Dermot (or Seamus),...
Paid articleOn Stage (October 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Lobby Talk When plays put you to sleep your only recourse is to review that supremely theatrical event, the grandfather of Happenings, the intermission. At The Poker...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1967)
ON STAGE The most exhilarating American play staged recently, Megan Terry s Viet Rock, was dismissed by TV commentators and other specialists as unpatriotic, one-sided The author was said to be...
Paid articleOn Stage (August 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Out of Harlem Conflagrations and riots in American cities are no novelty The early pages of Loften Mitchell's Black Drama The Story of the American Negro in the Theater...
Paid articleOn Stage (June 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Shaky Footholds Theater departments at the universities have long been a source of talent. It looks as if they will soon be the prime source. In the past couple of years...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Drama's Last Gasp? Not another lament for the past glories of the drama? But yes. And, as is usual in such cases, the author appends some faint hope that the old...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Doll Houses The first half of Peter Schu-man's current offering at his Bread and Puppet Theater, "Leaf Feeling the Moonlight," inches forward lugubriously. So do the...
Paid articleOn Stage (April 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Beating the Boyg It is said that the late Mrs. Beaumont, for whom the Vivian Beaumont Theater is named, gave the originators of Lincoln Center a bad time before she...
Paid articleOn Stage (April 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Four Dead Ends These days the theatrical compass needle flickers wildly, giving no sense of true north let alone a set of bearings. When it lingers reluctantly at one...
Paid articleOn Stage (March 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel All Out Ridicule The Play-House of the Ridiculous, Inc., is a repertory club. Before the play gets under way, a technician invites members to cheer and clap with abandon...
Paid articleOn Stage (February 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Author as Authority One of the penalties of living in a society that permits something like freedom of expression is seeing well-known figures constantly strike...
Paid articleON STAGE (February 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Directors' Playtime The story goes that every ambitious young director in the country has alerted his first readers to look out for "another Marat/ Sade." Peter Weiss'...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The action of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, as produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company (Music Box) looks simple. Teddy, a Londoner by birth, has been teaching...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Fighting Back An authentically redecorated alehouse in Greenwich Village, within striking distance of the Cherry Lane Theater, which houses Frank Gagliano's Night of the...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1967)
ON STAGE By Albert Be rme I Lorca's Momentum The drama of Federico Garcia Lorca has made only a thin scratch on our theatrical consciousness; it is generally battered into grim English and...
Paid articlePop Up (December 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Pop Up For at least 20 years the theater and fiction have been hospitable to pop art in their use of dialogue. Now, with the production of America Hurrah (Pocket...
Paid articleThe Sound of Vietnam (November 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Sound of Vietnam Megan Terry, who wrote and directed Viet Rock (Martinique), composes in sound. Her vaudeville, which declares all-out war on supporters of the...
Paid articleTimothy Leary's Turn (November 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Timothy Leary's Turn Outside the Village Theater any night but Tuesday you lined up for an Italian or YiddishAmerican movie. On Tuesdays, however, you saw Dr. Timothy...
Paid articleAuschwitz Alive (October 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Auschwitz Alive The stage at the Ambassador Theater is entirely a casket of planed, varnished planking with the fourth wall missing. At its center, in a honeycomb of...
Paid articleMud in the Plumbing (October 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Mud in the Plumbing An acquaintance of mine was recently sounding off on the demerits of Bernard Shaw. He conceded that Shaw's plays are the best comedy we have since...
Paid articleThe Playwright's Public (September 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Playwright's Public In an earlier article ("Theatre at Any Price?", NL, January 31, 1966) I suggested that theater businessmen in New York had estranged the...
Paid articleThe Mugwump Saint (August 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Mugwump Saint There are two principal meanings for the good old American noun "mugwump,' the root syllables of which are corrupted from the tongue of the...
Paid articleStrindberg's False Starts (June 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Strindberg's False Starts THE FIRST VOLUME of August Strindberg's autobiography appeared in 1886 when he was 37 years old. It had not been recollected in...
Paid articleTwo Russias (May 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Two Chekhov is a painfully honest writer; he will have the truth, however disappointing. The dialogue of the early play Ivanov (1887, published in 1889) is...
Paid articleRonald Ribman's Journey (May 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Ronald Ribman's Journey The new play at the American Place Theater multiplies Turgenev by Gogol by Ronald Ribman. The product. The Journey of the Fifth Horse, is...
Paid articleThe Art of Craft (April 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Art of Craft Near where the Bowery begins, on Bleecker Street, a resident acting company is shaping for itself a personal style in stagecraft. The event is...
Paid articleUp from Idealism (April 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Up from Idealism As a social spectacle Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle ought to trump just about any Broadway trick. It has laughs, songs, chases,...
Paid articleRacine Uprooted, Arden Transplanted (March 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Racine Uprooted, Arden Transplanted It was a mistake for The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theater Arts (IASTA) to invite Paul-Emile Deiber to...
Paid articleTennessee Williams and Others (March 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Tennessee Williams and Others The second part of Tennessee Williams' double bill, Slapstick Tragedy (which closed after a one-week run), is entitled The Gnadiges...
Paid articleSartre's Frantz and Germany (February 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Sartre's Frantz and Germany The French title of Sartre's drama Les S?©questr?©s d'Altona conveys more graphically than does its English translation, The Condemned...
Paid articleTheater at Any Price? (January 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Theater at Any Price? While the fabulous corpse continues to rot away, limb by limb, legal and theatrical cosmeticians are busily touching it up with greasepaint,...
Paid articleHistory Through the Looking Glass (January 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel History Through the Looking Glass The Christmas card sent out this year by David Merrick to theater critics had a black border and showed Santa Claus on the end of...
Paid articleA New Year's Package (January 1966)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel A New Year's Package Father concocts fireworks in the cellar; Mother types plays on a machine delivered to the house by mistake umpteen years ago; Grandfather...
Paid articleAn Escape from the Humdrum (November 1965)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel An Escape from the Humdrum In a fretful review of Dantons Death (Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center) Walter Kerr remarked: "It is difficult to see force in the...
Paid articleTapping the Raw Emulsions (October 1965)
ON STAGE By ALbert Bermel Tapping the Raw Emulsions The opening of plays like Gen­eration, which has started to bring trade to the Morosco Theater, and Minor Miracle, which closed shop at the...
Paid articleSurprises from Berlin (September 1965)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Surprises from Berlin LONDON The three-week visit to London of the Berliner Ensemble has been an event, but evidently few theatergoers here expected it to be quite so...
Paid articleWatching Closely (June 1965)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Watching Closely IN the first scene of Jack Gelber's Square in the Eye (Theater de Lys) movies and slides in black-and-white and Kodacolor fly up on to not one, not two,...
Paid articleHerakles Unwound (May 1965)
On stage By Albert Bermel Herakles Unwound Sophocles' The Trachiniae is not a play that commends itself to modern directors, and scholars have long faulted it on several grounds. It lacks the...
Paid articleTo Russia, with Music (May 1965)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel To Russia, with Music After a sprint start Fiddler on the Roof is now deep into its run. Some of the daily reviewers have been back to see it a second time and have...
Paid articleSTAGE (April 1965)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Young Playwrights The three assemblages of one-act plays by seven "new play-wrights" at the Cherry Lane Theater demonstrated once more that festivals, like anthologies,...
Paid articleSTAGE (April 1965)
ON STAGE By AlbertBermel The Resurrection of Betti Ugo betti seems to be creeping into vogue. Only two of his plays, The Gambler and Crime on Goat Island, came into New York during the '50s, but...
Paid articleThe Entertainment Quotient (February 1965)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Entertainment Quotient ThOSE OUT-OF-TOWNERS-benefit parties from Oyster Bay and Westport, and liquored-up Seventh Avenue expense-account Mammons-for whom the New...
Paid articleSTAGE (February 1965)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel A Hole in the Center This much may be said for New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: It has been a topic of conversation. And there the compliments must...
Paid articleAlice in Underhand (January 1965)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Alice In Underhand SCENE : A deserted 41st Street outside the Billy Rose Theater, 20 minutes after the performance. Messrs. DIMH and WHIT, arguing hotly, are ejected...
Paid articleThreats and Threats (January 1965)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Threats and Threats "You can do something with this room. You stand a chance," says Rose, a washed-out, middle-aged, lower-class English housewife, taking apologetic...
Paid articleAn Estimable Chekhov (July 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel An Estimable Chekhov IN his revival of The Three Sisters, the most estimable production so far by the Actors Studio and a theatrical oasis of sorts at the end of...
Paid articleOn Stage (December 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Dying in Theory IT is a relief to find that in Incident at Vichy (Anta Washington Square Theater) Arthur Miller has avoided the torpid selfdefensiveness that...
Paid articleOn Stage (December 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Deflected Aims Every scene of The Owl and the Pussycat (Anta Theater) begins with a line drawing of an owl and a cat projected on a scrim, together with a brief...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Middleton and Lowell It was unlikely that the Lincoln Center Theater company would live up to the windy claims made on its behalf before last season's opening. It...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Meanwhile, Fifty Years Later... IF THE purposes of Dr. Strangelove included raising the hackles of the warlike and promoting mistrust of our defense system, it...
Paid articleOn Stage (October 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel First of the Season With The Physicists (at the Martin Beck Theater) Friedrich Duerrenmatt, repeatedly hailed as one of the monarchs of the postwar drama,...
Paid articleTheir Art Belongs to Dada (September 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Their Art Belongs to Dada In Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd which in 1961 combed out and anointed the tangled strands of postwar drama, there is an...
Paid articleA Great Trio (August 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel A Great Trio Joseph Papp deserves two votes of thanks in response to the new Othello in Central Park: first, for producing it; second, for not directing it. One...
Paid articlePure Fantasy (July 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel A Passion for Clarity Many critics used to talk about the characters in Shakespeare's plays as though they were real people with lives of their own. A Juliet to...
Paid articleFilling A Vacuum (June 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Filling a Vacuum The arrival of postwar French theater in New York started a new racket: the short evening. A play used to run for two and a half hours and up. As...
Paid articleLear By Way of Beckett (June 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Lear by Way of Beckett IT IS possible to split King Lear in a number of different directions and always seem to be following the grain. The conventional— one...
Paid articleFirst Responsibilities (May 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert ?ermel First Responsibilities The Actors Studio has been the only theatrical training center of any consequence in the United States. By founding its "Method" on what...
Paid articleThe Uses of Indignation (April 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel The Uses of Indignation As the situation of the Negro in this country comes to its climacteric—possibly to the threatened conflagration—the theater,...
Paid articleAn Eye for Style (April 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel An Eye for Style Since its early days, Off-Broadway has had a weakness for revivals, and I mean a weakness. Modern dramatists like Strindberg, Ibsen, Shaw,...
Paid articleBlood and Money (March 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Blood and Money The interior of a rusting, corrugated-iron shack, set in a South African slum, provides the stage boundaries for The Blood Knot (Cricket Theater,...
Paid articleUnderstudy for 'The Deputy' (March 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Understudy for 'The Deputy' As A play The Deputy has been praised for its historical accuracy, its angry insistence, and little else. Advance reviews out...
Paid articleOn Stage (March 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel A Round of Polo Marco Millions, Eugene O'Neill's scenic route to ridicule, is a thematic joke that keeps proposing the same variation. Marco Polo, his father and...
Paid articleTwo Kinds of Anguish (February 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel Two Kinds of Anguish WHEN A drama of the dimensions and complexity of The Trojan Women wins a modern staging, what point is there in pinning on it a cheap...
Paid articleON STAGE (February 1964)
ON STAGE By Albert Bermel A View from the Brain Jason Robards Jr.'s uncommon acting manner has much in common with Humphrey Bogart's. His arms follow similar movements, his hands and fingers...
AuthorBERNAYS, EDWARD L.
AuthorBERNICK, MICHAEL
AuthorBERNICK, MIKE
AuthorBERNSTEIN
AuthorBernstein, Charles S.
AuthorBERNSTEIN, DAVID
AuthorBERNSTEIN, JACOB
AuthorBERNSTEIN, LEON
AuthorBERNSTEIN, LOUIS
AuthorBERNSTEIN, PETER
AuthorBERNSTEIN, R.B.
AuthorBERNSTEIN, RICHARD J.
AuthorBERNSTEIN, THOMAS P.
AuthorBERUBE, MAURICE R.
AuthorBETANCOURT, ROMULO
AuthorBETSKY, CEUA
AuthorBETTELHEIM, BRUNO
AuthorBEVINGTON, DAVID
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RangeBp - Bs
RangeBt - Bz
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