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Theater and society

Musical chairs

by Martin B. Duberman,

You can't go out humming the scenery

Reports

by Steven R. Weisman,

Playing politics

A free theater for Mississippi

by Richard Schechner,

Why American plays are not literature

by Robert Sanford Brustein,

MacLeish and the broken major

by William Smith White,

The theater of middle seriousness

by Robert Sanford Brustein,

A report on the Broadway season

“A platform and a passion or two”

by Thornton Wilder,

Among our contributors

by Harper’s Staff,

The best theater season in years

by Walter Kerr,

The critics in the aisle seats

by John Houseman,

A challenge to the American theater

by Fred Eastman,

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