The Nation, November 20th, 1989
Orpheus Descending Plays age, like people and ideas, at a variable rate. Some few seem to grow nobler as they go gray, but most of them lose the glow of their youth and come to seem shabby or cranky or otherwise unattractive as the years go by. After four decades few still possess the power to command any but a polite attention. This sad truth has been underscored by the current dearth of new growth in the New York theater, as producers have ever more systematically mined the 1940s and 1950s for plays that still have some recognition value (often because their film versions have been haunting...
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