This Year's Best Plays

SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS. Alone, heart-hungry, frightened, a group of strangers in a bar receive the balm of compassion which is always implicit in a play by Tennessee Williams.

THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND by Tom Stoppard. A spoof of mystery thrillers and drama critics that is cleverer than Sleuth.

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON by Jason Miller. At a 20th reunion of a championship basketball team, the silvery trophy of the now paunchy players holds ashes of their lives.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. The Shakespeare classic becomes a beguiling musical, transplanted to the U.S. of the Teddy Roosevelt era.

OH, COWARD! All that glitters is gold in this stylishly assembled portfolio of 50 years of Noel Coward's songs and patter.

PIPPIN. Fabulous Bob Fosse fashioned this ace musical, in which the son of Charlemagne is regaled with firecracker dance numbers, sunshiny songs and smashing girls.

BUTLEY by Simon Gray. Alan Bates as a hilariously self-destructive English professor drinking the hemlock of middle-aged failure.

THE SUNSHINE BOYS by Neil Simon. Funny and touching, as two ex-vaudevillians trade irate banter and cup their ears for remembered applause.

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