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...freshets, and of a main flow fed by tributary streams. Perhaps more than anything else, 1953-54 was the season when off-Broadway began breathing, however faintly, down Broadway's neck. On lower Second Avenue, without having arisen out of anybody else's ashes, there emerged the Phoenix Theater. Whatever its shortcomings, it gave Manhattan its first really promising repertory-neither Old Guard nor avant-garde-in years. In The Golden Apple, it offered the season's one really individual musical. And the Phoenix's Golden Apple, like the Theatre...
...Gull (by Anton Chekhov) is a landmark in the modern theater: in this first of his major plays, Chekhov began to master his highly individual method and spoke in his endlessly imitated, ever inimitable tones. Even in the Phoenix Theater's disappointing revival, The Sea Gull could still be seen as a theatrical turning point- though, after 50-odd years, what it turned away from was as palpable as what it turned toward...
...Phoenix production was weakest toward the end, where the play itself is; and in the most crucial scenes, it pulled Chekhov down rather than kept him afloat. This was sometimes a matter of interpretation, but oftener one of acting. Maureen Stapleton's Masha came closest to an entirely right performance, while Montgomery Cliffs Kostya at the outset, and Judith Evelyn's Madame Arkadina pretty much throughout, also scored...
Promissory Note. In Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Mary Lou Bryan showed police a letter from her landlady: "I have a beef with you . . . and when I catch you out in the yard again, I'm going to let you have it, as nothing would give me more pleasure than to black both your eyes and bust you in the nose...
...fourth retreat for married couples sponsored by the California chapter of the Holy Family Retreat Association (founded three years ago in Phoenix, Ariz.). The idea is snowballing among Roman Catholic dioceses. In St. Paul...