Play: The Alchemist

Theatre / City: New York

Dates: May 1948

Company: New York City Theatre Company

Director / Producer: Morton da Costa

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Reviews / Production History: R. R., New York World-Telegram , 7 May 1948; Alan Branigan, Newark Evening News , 7 May 1948; John S. Wilson , PM , 9 May 1948; Richard Watts, Jr, New York Post , 7 May 1948; Robert Coleman, Daily Mirror , 8 May 1948; Bron, Variety , 12 May 1948; 'Old play in Manhattan: The Alchemist', Time , 17 May 1948, 88; F. L., 'Central city actors open new season with production of Ben Jonson ’s Alchemist', New York Times , 7 May 1948, 31; George Jean Nathan, Theatre Book of the Year , 1947-48 (New York, 1948); Kappo Phelan, ‘The Alchemist’, Commonweal , 21 May 1948, 139; Euphemia van Rensselaer Wyatt, 'The Alchemist', Catholic World 167 (June 1948), 267; Jack Lardner, 'Something silly, something old', New Yorker , 15 May 1948, 48-9