The Theater: Hark, the Israeli Skylark

Americans tend to think of Europeans above the peasant level as highly sophisticated. Still, season after season, Broadway imports some foreign shows of such pristine simple-mindedness that they could not be fobbed off on a shut-in from Cucamonga.

This season's imports began with The Black Light Theater of Prague, which as entertainment was on a par with a little boy doodling on the ceiling of his darkened bedroom with a flashlight. Now we are offered, direct from Israel, To Live Another Summer, To Pass Another Winter. True, Israel is in the Middle East, but the tastes of most Israelis are conditioned by...

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