MEN AND POLITICS—Louis Fischer—Duell, Sloan and Pearce ($3.50). For 18 years Louis Fischer was the journalistic delegate from New York’s liberal Nation to the Russian revolution. When not in Moscow, ...

The Playhouse season turns to heavy drama with “The Retreat from Moscow,” by William Nicholson, from April 12 – 21. With coiled intensity and embracing empathy this celebrated author of “Shadowlands,” ...

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William Nicholson’s The Retreat From Moscow was a real find for the Aurora Fox — the best production staged there in several years. The play details the breakdown of a highly civilized marriage, ...

Bald and affable William Christian Bullitt’s great dream came officially to an end last week. When in 1933 President Roosevelt revealed, as his first great diplomatic coup, the fact that the U. S. had ...

In the program notes for the Artists Repertory Theatre’s (ART) new show, artistic director Allen Nause describes The Retreat from Moscow as the “quintessential ART play.” This puzzles me. Of all the ...