Theater January 1995
Two theaters, fat & thin
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On the mega-musicals & one- & two-actor shows that now dominate Broadway.
On the mega-musicals & one- & two-actor shows that now dominate Broadway.
On Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard & the Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie.
On the Harold Prince revival of Show Boat & on A. R. Gurney’s A Cheever Evening.
On several recent plays that reflect mainly the preoccupations of the New York theater world.
On the American presence in London theater.
On recent British imports, a revival of Picnic & new plays by Arthur Miller & Edward Albee.
On revivals of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel & Odets’s The Flowering Peach.
On Damn Yankees & other failed Broadway revivals.
On the Broadway revival of Pinter’s No Man’s Land.
On All in the Timing, six one-act comedies by David Ives.