The Theater: Finish Line

Broadway had had a fairly healthy and not too hackneyed season. If no dazzling new plays emerged during 1945-46, no very dreadful ones prospered. If business fluctuated, it generally flourished. Entertainment, as always, fared much the best; but earnestness got a hearing, and art fared very well.

Art, indeed, made the biggest splash—when, at season's end, England's famed Old Vic grandly invaded Broadway. After advancing with Shakespeare and being repulsed with Chekhov, the Old Vic swept on to triumph with Sophocles' Oedipus the King, giving Broadway its greatest theatrical experience in years.

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