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Summer and Smoke

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staging by Quintero

In José Quintero
…Page with a revival of Summer and Smoke, a Tennessee Williams play that had failed on Broadway. With that work, interest in off-Broadway productions was ignited. In May 1956 Quintero directed his first O’Neill play, a revival of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards, who would star in a number…
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Western theatre

In Western theatre: Off-Broadway
…to critical acclaim Tennessee Williams’s Summer and Smoke, a play that had previously flopped on Broadway. The success of Off-Broadway’s often-experimental productions meant that the work of some writers (such as Edward Albee), and some productions, subsequently moved to Broadway.
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