The Best Plays

The Best Plays

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

Drama THE OUTSIDER--Katherine Cornell achieves the notable feat of extracting a romance out of a surgical operation.

OUTWARD BOUND--A significant, eerily suggestive drama of a journey into the beyond which almost reconciles one to Death.

RAIN--Well-known mordant drama, subjecting the exhorting clergy to some of their own brimstone.

SUN UP--Vignettes of the Carolina mountaineers floundering in a backwash of the World War.

TARNISH--The trenchant, middle-class tragedy of loving unwisely and too often.

IN THE NEXT ROOM--Engaging mystery melodrama takes its polite cue from the elegant furniture.

SAINT JOAN--Bernard Shaw brilliantly assures Joan of Arc of a place in history.

THE MIRACLE--Prodigious medieval religious spectacle, rampant with mobs, deaths, coronations and other edifying sights.