Theater: Off-Broadway Reckoning

A pair of stars acting for the satisfaction of it, an offbeat Manhattan debut by a new talent, a musty, reclaimed grind house—Tiger-Typists (see col. 1) is theater of the kind that makes off-Broadway an absentee culture hero in conversation pits from Kansas City to Bombay.

Anyone with a slight touch of dissent in his makeup had better see at least half-a-dozen plays currently showing off-Broadway before getting around to the name-brand tranquilizers of the Broadway showshops. But he had better not go much beyond a half-dozen, for the major consequence of off-Broadway's startling...

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