From the American Scene: Make Mine Manhattan by Gerald Weales I AM not quite a classic case. When I stepped off the train at Pennsylvania Station in September 1946, I…
On the Horizon: Thoughts on “A Raisin in the Sun” by Gerald Weales ON THE day that the New York Drama Critics' Award was announced, a student stopped me as I walked across…
On the Horizon: S. N. Behrman Comes Home by Gerald Weales MOST American playwrights are fitted out with identification labels early in their careers. A conventional tag makes easy the reaction…
Best American Plays, Fourth Series, 1951-1957, edited by John Gassner by Gerald Weales THE seventeen plays that John Gassner has chosen for his latest collection of American plays may not be the "best"…
Small-Town Detroit:Motor City on the Move by Gerald Weales Gerald Whales examines the shifting patterns of community life in America's “Motor City.”
On the Horizon: Marty and His Friends and Neighbors by Gerald Weales Marty, a quiet little movie about an unprepossessing young man who at last finds a girl, as plain and as…
On the Horizon: Bronx Ararat by Gerald Weales It probably wasn't the forty days and forty nights of rain on the Ark roof that seemed long to Noah…
Sunset and Evening Star, by Sean O’Casey by Gerald Weales In the last line of Sunset and Evening Star, Sean O'Casey offers a toast to life—rather to Life, for he…