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...works meanwhile: five Leonard Bernstein-New York Philharmonic programs spaced across the present season; six more NBC specials, including a Tammy Grimes show resulting from her success on Four for Tonight; a series of twelve "classical" mysteries, opening March 31 with Helen Hayes and Jason Robards Jr. in Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Bat; and a sort of living prospectus of Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (last month Saudek Associates was named the center's exclusive TV producers...
Arthur Penn has staged the play admirably. Jason Robards Jr. as Julian, Anne Revere as his older sister and Rochelle Oliver as his wife give solid performances. Maureen Stapleton's conniving sister is full of fascinating detail; as Julian's mother-in-law, a cool, unsentimental woman with a Negro lover, Irene Worth plays with wonderful style...
...Attic, by Lillian Hellman in a Tennessee Williams vein, had Boston audiences/coughing and ho-humming through a talky first act, but soon caught their attention with enough incest, adultery, miscegenation and fornication to keep a three-toed sloth awake for a month. Starring Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth and Jason Robards Jr.., it is the first original play in nine years by Dramatist Hellman (The Little Foxes, The Children's Hour). Wrote the Boston Record's Elliot Norton: "She has written wisely, often wittily, and her point of view is provocative. But the basic story seemed just a little...
...greater disparity between the two halves of the dance section. The final work was an electrifying setting of Virgil Thomson's "Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripides" choreographed by Amy Greenfield, who also danced the title role with just the right mixture of passion and inhuman wildness. As Jason, Gus Solomon combined a rigid discipline with a strongly rhythmical movement, producing an effective and intense characterization. The other dancers and the chorus were caught up by the highly charged emotion and supported the principals well. The choreography had about it a sureness and feeling for line that emphaized...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Jason Robards Jr. TV adaptation by James (Little Moon of Alban) Costigan. Color...