Theater Abroad: Oh Tennessee, Poor Tennessee Kopit's Hung You in the Closet And Won't You Be Mad

The marquees of Broadway may soon have to be enlarged until they stretch out over the Hudson River and poke the New Jersey Palisades; for a new American playwright is about to arrive, and his considerable ability is exceeded only by the length of his titles. At 24, Arthur L. Kopit is scarcely out of Harvard, but he has already shaped his talents on a series of campus productions that included How Sweet the Wine and How Dark the Color, To Dwell in a Palace of Strangers, Sing to Me Through Open Windows,...

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