Theatre of the Living Arts presents the Southwark Company in "Poor Bitos," by Jean Anouilh, director: Andre Gregory, scenic design & lighting: Eugene Lee, costume design: Adam Sage, production manager: Leon Gersten, electronic music composed by Tom Aronis, artistic director: Andre Gregory, associate director: George Sherman, managing director: David Lunney.

The French master of time and its illusions presents us with a group of patricians gathered for a party in the vaulting room of an old chateau. We are quickly disabused of any notion that this is to be just another gay party a la dolce vita. For also invited is a literal, by the numbers, and intransigent prosecutor named Bitos whom they all detest. He is to them the reincarnation of Robespierre; and through a change of coats and the dramatic legerdermain of Anouilh the party recreates the time of Robespierre and the French Revolution before returning to the humiliating harshness of the present.

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(Applause Books). Curtain Times is a uniquely comprehensive, uniquely detailed and uniquely contemporaneous history of the New York theater in the seasons from 1964-65 up to 1987. This is a collection of more than two decades of annual critical surveys (originally published in the Best Plays series of yearbooks) in a single volume. Each of these surveys is a report and criticism of a whole New York theater season: its hits and misses onstage and off, its esthetic innards. Each is a comprehensive overview which takes in every play, musical, specialty and revival, foreign and domestic, produced on and off Broadway during the theater season. Hardcover.

Three bowling buddies in the Bronx form a syndicate to "culture" the kid brother of their late friend, and launch him into society downtown.

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