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"ou take your seat one minute and suddenly you're walking out into the white lights of nighttime Times Square, aware only that you have had the kind of visceral theatrical experience you probably an attention-commanding revival by the Roundabout Theater Company." Both performers strain a bit in their more naked self-revelations, but they are excellent in moments of ominously weighted an anguished consideration of mortality and the gulf between men and women. His abiding willingness to experiment to put it over." offers a fascinating testament to one author's constancy of vision and "Staged by the gifted (and increasingly busy) young director Scott Elliott, the work, first produced in London in 1991. Glass' and give it a poignance so rare these days that it's almost new-fashioned." It's this vision, as well as the Miller voice, which remains as strong and unrelenting as a prophet's, that distinguish 'Broken small, intense, deceptively prosy new drama. "In 'The Last Yankee' a major playwright, Arthur Miller, is writing in a minor key." Gerald Freedman's articulate revival at the Roundabout Theater Company is as resolute as the play itself." "By focusing on the Salem witch hunts of the 17th century, the playwright placed the outrage of McCarthyism in historical perspective and created a drama that has remained meaningful to succeeding generations. Miller for fastening on an eternal issue, it's hard not to ask the weary, equallyĮternal, question, 'So what else is new?'" "'All My Sons' may be too topical for its own theatrical good. Miller seems to have begun with his themes and conceits, then worked backward to fashion (and diminish) his characters Hoffman's Willy becomes a harrowing American everyman." And by staking no claim to the stature of a tragic hero, Mr. Hoffman is not playing a larger-than-life protagonist but "In undertaking one of our theater's classic roles, this daring actor has pursued his own brilliant conception of the character. 'Up From Paradise' is a casual, warm-spirited and innocuous musical chalk talk whose future is likely to reside with amateur church and "Alas, the promised land is still well out of reach. Miller's play, which first appeared on Broadway as a one-acter in 1955 is seen

Broadway has found a much-needed evening of electric American drama. Pieces of 'The American Clock' have been smashed almost beyond recognition." Upsetting as it seems, the once beautiful

"Miller's drama arrived at the Biltmore with an extensively rewritten script, a new director and a partially new cast. And those people will be rewarded by a production that gives the play every fair shake." veryone interested in the theater willīe interested enough to make up his or her own mind about the play. It is his first comedy, and even in style quite unlike his earlier work. "It emerges as a victory of craft over artistry and of mind over matter.

' The Creation of the World and Other Business'.

Still waiting in the wings, unfulfilled." But regrettably - or so it seems to me - the author of 'Death of a Salesman' is "It is a play that will give a great deal of pleasure to many people and deserves a long and profitable run. But in the second play, 'A View From the Bridge,' Miller's exercise in theatrical photography is flat and diffuse.

' A View From the Bridge' and ' A Memory of Two Mondays'.

With this one, perhaps because he is too conscious of its implications." Although 'The Crucible' is a powerful drama, it stands second to 'Death of a Salesman' as a work of art. "Miller has written another powerful play. Cobb gives a heroic performance, and every member of the Under Elia Kazan's masterly direction, Lee J. Into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hope and anguish to the theatre. It is so simple in style and so inevitable in theme that is scarcely seems like a thing that has been written and acted. He has written an honest, forceful drama. brings something fresh and exciting into the drama. "he theatre has acquired a genuine new talent. they have not edited out the confusion of the script nor its somewhat jumbled philosophies, nor have they kept it from running over into the ridiculous now and then." he author and director - Arthur Miller and Joseph Fields - at least have been trying to do something away from the theater's usual stencils.

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