...Harold Orel Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 BROADWAY S SENTIMENTAL CRISIS Harold Orel THE THOUSAND AND ONE reasons which contribute to the increasing sterility of the Broadway stage are well known. All kinds of people feel alarm over the decline in the number of plays presented...

..., Spring 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Robert Brustein. 244 Robert Brustein ing the riches to be found in London, and when Mel Gussow does a follow-up review of some item of the Broadway season, that is usually an English import, too. The Times has three full-time reviewers, and another two or three part-time...

... . Hine Darlene Clark Thompson Kathleen . 1998 . A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America . New York : Broadway . Hoffman Tyler . 2011 . American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press . Iqbal...

...; its east and west borders are usually marked as Lafayette Street on the east and West Broadway or Thomp­ son Street, depending on how far you count. A dangerous and seedy manufacturing and warehouse district for marginal operations, SoHo was transformed by artists looking for studio space...

..., on the other hand, though at times the agent or servant of the state, has theoretically been less vulnerable to outside manipulation, especially when the primary aim has been truth rather than profit. But the polar economic and ideological points represented to­ day by Broadway and off-off-Broadway were much...

... college at the University of Chicago, and in aiding public education in various of the states. Especially interesting is the account of work done to improve the character of negro rural schools in nearly all the states of the South. The General Education Board, 61 Broadway, New York City. Bulletin No. 638...

... prospects before him. Bom in London into a family of actors and musicians, he came to the United States at the age of sixteen to seek his fortune in show business. For several years he worked as an actor, taking the juvenile lead in such Broadway productions as Little Lord Fauntleroy. But his major interest...

... number of performances. One can only hope that the box-office boys of Broadway and London will take more note of this than one expects. N. I. White. The Western Island, or, The Great Blasket. By Robin Flower. New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. Pp. viii, 138. $2.50. While working on the Catalogue...

... sentimental, more material-minded and machine-minded, than it was a generation ago. And yet some great American plays have been written and have even been successful on Broadway. Perhaps writers like O Neill, Sherwood, Maxwell Anderson, and Tennessee Williams arise from the opulence of modern times to protest...

... for the best minds. General Education Board, 61 Broadway, New York City. Dr. Edwin Mims, professor of English in Vanderbilt Uni­ versity, has recently prepared a useful syllabus on American Ideals in American Literature. The text and references in this syllabus deal with the following topics: Sectionalism...

... attendance for Abie s Irish Rose and Ah, Wilderness for an unspecified number of performances. One can only hope that the box-office boys of Broadway and London will take more note of this than one expects. N. I. White. The Western Island, or, The Great Blasket. By Robin Flower. New York: Oxford University...

... 2001 Notes on Contributors s plays, including Two Small Bodies, Cold Sweat, Ragged Dick Some- where in the Pacific, and On the Bum, have been produced off-Broadway at theaters including...

.... Like at South Coast, for example. Certainly. You get a very different crowd than you would get downtown. What’s the alternative in New York? You have Broadway, and then you have the Public...

... and plates. $18.95. Somewhat like Broadway, the Abbey Theatre has been a fabulous invalid, periodically at death s door after a burst of robust health, never quite slipping through. Scene in the past of riots within and anathemas without, the Abbey today is a vital and honored part of Ireland s cultural...

... only hope that the box-office boys of Broadway and London will take more note of this than one expects. N. I. White. The Western Island, or, The Great Blasket. By Robin Flower. New York: Oxford University Press, 1945. Pp. viii, 138. $2.50. While working on the Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts...

... and have even been successful on Broadway. Perhaps writers like O Neill, Sherwood, Maxwell Anderson, and Tennessee Williams arise from the opulence of modern times to protest against decadence. Whatever the answers are to these problems of origins, the serious student of drama and the enthusiastic patron...

... Workers Laboratory Theatre to Broadway, the author examines the proletarian theatrical societies spawned by the Communist Party in the third period. Tracing their evolution from the agitprop skits which called for revolutionary solidarity to the New Theatre League s prize-winning strike drama Waiting...

... orientation and fascination with the new stagecraft of Russia made them the first professional theater to reflect the values of the radical left. Moving across the political spectrum from Workers Laboratory Theatre to Broadway, the author examines the proletarian theatrical societies spawned by the Communist...

... University Press, 1979. Pp. 306 and plates. $18.95. Somewhat like Broadway, the Abbey Theatre has been a fabulous invalid, periodically at death s door after a burst of robust health, never quite slipping through. Scene in the past of riots within and anathemas without, the Abbey today is a vital and honored...

..., if anything, more naive, more sentimental, more material-minded and machine-minded, than it was a generation ago. And yet some great American plays have been written and have even been successful on Broadway. Perhaps writers like O Neill, Sherwood, Maxwell Anderson, and Tennessee Williams arise from...