Writer

James A. Sharaf

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On the Town

To the classic nouns of assemblage--"a gaggle of geese," "a pride of lions"--the English man of words Eric Partridge once


The Pirates of Penzance

The curtain went up for the first time last night at the Loeb Drama Center as the resident genie uncorked


Midsummer Night's Dream

The American Shakespeare Festival company is presenting a quite forgettable production. Consulting my program, I am reminded that they claim


Stages and Screens

Somewhere or other Shaw tells of a momentous discovery he once made: from the balcony of a theater of any


Identity

Identity Poetry has presented an issue of prose, and it leads one to wish the magazine would veer from verse


U.S.A.

U.S.A. is a two-hour long play by John Dos Passos and Paul Shyre, based on Dos Passos's 1400 page novel


The Hole

The British playwright N. F. Simpson is not a raving lunatic, although that is the first impression his two plays


The Sorcerer

Going to Gilbert and Sullivan openings at Harvard is in some ways like watching a juggler perform. The local players


Flameproof

The dining hall was crowded and there was apparently no place else to sit so he slipped into the remaining