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The Tree Witch

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I suppose that one of the functions of the Poets' Theatre is to produce bad plays by minor poets. There


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On the Town

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


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The Pirates of Penzance

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


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Midsummer Night's Dream

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


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Stages and Screens

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


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Identity

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


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U.S.A.

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


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The Hole

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


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The Sorcerer

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


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Flameproof

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

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