Brooks Atkinson Theatre
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre (New York). Opening in 1926 as the
Mansfield Theatre, the wide and practical theatre was built by the enterprising Chanin Brothers on West 47th Street and named after the celebrated actor Richard Mansfield. Herbert J
Krapp designed the 1,000‐seat playhouse, which was ideal for nonmusicals. The Mansfield managed to survive the Great Depression years but closed in 1944 and reopened as a television studio in 1950. A decade later it returned to offering legit fare and was renamed after the recently retired journalist Brooks
Atkinson, the first time on record a theatre was named after a critic. Today the playhouse is owned by the Nederlanders and is steadily booked.
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Wait Until Dark.(Brooks Atkinson Theater, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News; 5/11/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...minutes it takes for Wait Until Dark to unravel at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway--his entrance and his curtain...no small feat in a theater as intimate as the Brooks Atkinson. Stephen Lang as Mike Talman, a sympathetic thug...
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Benefactors. (Brooks Atkinson Theater, New york)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 2/10/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...praised in advance as deeply moving and a serious drama of ideas. Far less clear to me is why Benefactors, at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, is a solid hit. One indeed may wonder where the seriousness lies and what ideas are embodied here, or...
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Redwood Curtain. (Brooks Atkinson Theater, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 5/3/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...believe him, and he just as stubbornly keeps pushing the loud pedal through a long intermissionless production at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Wilson must have assumed that any break in the action would disturb Redwood's mood and vitiate its surprise...
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BUNDLES FROM BRITAIN.(Brooks Atkinson Theater, New York, New York)(Review)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 5/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...better example of the playwright's duality exists than The Iceman Cometh, now in its newest incarnation at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. The play is composed entirely of talk. No action, just talk. Four hours of repetitive, turgid, declamatory...
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Taking Sides.(Brooks Atkinson Theater, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 11/4/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...production, as he observed, made the Major "the stereotypical ugly American versus a cultured European." At the Brooks Atkinson Theater, Harris, as he puts it, finds "a lot of complexity to this guy," who is considerably "more intelligent...
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She Loves Me. (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: America; 2/12/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...foregone, even when the relationship seems to derail. The classic recipe, n 'est-ce pas? "She Loves Me," at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, like almost every current success on Broadway, is (sigh) a revival. The Hungarian immigrant writer Miklos...
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Death and the Maiden. (Brooks Atkinson Theater, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 3/23/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...and a bitterly serious outlook, the play has become a hit in London's West End. The Broadway version of the Brooks Atkinson Theater has been misconceived from start to curtain. Gene Hackman, who spends most of the time in bondage, has...
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Blood on the stage ; Theatre ++ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' ++ Brooks Atkinson Theatre NEW YORK
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/6/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...dance director Twyla Tharp. It was tempting to dismiss this project as misbegotten even before stepping inside the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on 47th Street, where it has just opened. What good could possibly come of marrying high-stepping, dollar...
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Wait Until Dark. (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 4/13/1998; ; 630 words
; Some matters remain beyond human comprehension. No one, for example, has ever directly observed black holes--collapsed stars so dense that they swallow their own light. Luckily, astrophysicists may now flock to Broadway, where they can at last witness a black hole. It's called, appropriately, Wait
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Wait Until Dark.(Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: New York; 4/20/1998; ; 589 words
; Frederick Knott's Wait Until Dark is pure contrivance but with more holes than a tennis net. From Knott's plot's un-Gordian knots, a little logic could easily free the blind heroine beset by three bumbling thugs. They, in turn, could, instead of playing an elaborate charade, win out through simple
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Brooks Atkinson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Brooks Atkinson (Justin Brooks Atkinson), 1894-1984, American journalist, b. Melrose, Mass...much influence on the success or failure of Broadway plays. Atkinson's books include Henry Thoreau, the Cosmic Yankee (1927...
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Atkinson, (Justin) Brooks
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Atkinson, [Justin] Brooks (1894–1984), critic...Massachusetts) Daily News . In 1919 Atkinson joined the Boston Evening Transcript...Mansfield Theatre was renamed the Brooks Atkinson Theatre , the first Broadway house...
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, on West 47th Street, between Broadway and 8th...reopened in 1960 under its present name, given in honour of the critic Brooks Atkinson . Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn (1961) had a long run, and...
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Horton, John
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Finish: An Adventure in Biography, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1963...Nick, Bedroom Farce, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 1979. Antonio Salieri...Selsdon Mowbray, Noises Off, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 2002. Dr. Dillamond...
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Mell, Randle 1951–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Lejeune and standby for Tim Allgood, Noises Off, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1983 – 85. Three...Adams Memorial Theatre, Williamstown, MA, 1998, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 1999 – 2000, Skirball Cultural...
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