The unlikeliest classics: Theodore Mann's memoir renders Circle in the Square in its golden years.(BOOKS)(Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square: A Memoir )(Book review)

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JOURNEYS IN THE NIGHT: CREATING A NEW AWERICAN THEATRE WITH CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE

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By Theodore Menn. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, New York City. 418 pp, $34.95 cloth with DVD.

Nowadays the most useful way to distinguish between Broadway and Off Broadway is numerical--how many seats a theatre has determines what kinds of union contracts are required. It's that simple.

One of the important things about Theodore Mann's memoir Journeys in the Night is that it reminds us of a time when Off Broadway signified a romantic idea of theatre for ...

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