The Best Plays

These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important:

Drama

THE WONDERFUL VISIT--An intruding Angel finds that things on Earth are not as they are in Heaven.

COBRA--Eve and the snake develop interlocking personalities, for the confusion of the modern Adam.

Cpmedy

EXPRESSING WILLIE--Proving conclusively that temperament, attribute of opera-singers and long-haired virtuosos, is not for the plain businessman.

FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK-- Spurious counts, innocent maidens, forging financiers, tell-tale French maids all take the audience into their confidence in whispered asides and descriptive musical renditions in this revival of Anna Cora Mowatt's comedy of the 40's.

SWEENEY TODD--A mid-19th Century barber makes meat-pies of his enemies, thus moving us to mirth where he was wont to curl the hair of our grandfathers.

FATA MORGANA -- An Hungarian "Seventeen" awakes in the morning to find that Love is, after all, a mirage.

BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK--A pungent travesty of Big Business taking itself seriously, with Genius and Love conquering all.

THE SHOW-OFF--A nicely balanced comedy that lies close to tragedy, with with an uncanny insight into a human being who considers that words outweigh deeds.

Musical

Satisfactory these hot nights are orchestra seats for Chariot's Revue, Keep Kool, Kid Boots, Innocent Eyes, I'll Say She Is.