James Lardner
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Up Against the Wall Erratic Glamour in a Cops and Robbers World
I WAS a senior in college and a lazily erratic student of American history when the impulse hit me. Four
John Lindsay at the Crossroads
JOHN LINDSAY'S probable re-election as Mayor of New York City comes courtesy of the emerging technical elite, that body to
Good At It
DONALD BLOCH'S play, which opened last night at selected locations around the Eliot House dining hall, has absolutely no exposition,
The Open Theatre...and the Closed
T HERE'S NOT A whole lot can be said about The Open Theatre and its concoction called The Serpent: A
The Millionairess
D IVIDING Bernard Shaw's productive life into periods can be no end of fun. There being close on 70 years
How to Succeed
A T LAST: a show designed expressly for stoned-out-of-their-mind couples trapped somewhere in the vast limbo which divides Soldiers Field
The Living Theatre: Enough Said
The Living Theatre appears to aim at nothing more nor less than what it achieves. If it doesn't interlock one's
The Bacchae
I T IS ALWAYS a cliche, most always a lie, to say that a director has somehow emancipated a play
By George
I F FLUKE, By George has to be a happy one; if a precedent, it should be praised to the
Promises, Promises
I F THEY don't positively leap on stage with a hoot and a "Down with Jerry Herman!" sign, Burt Bacharach