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The United States Steel Hour
Television series
The United States Steel Hour | |
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Rod Serling's The Rack, a production of The United States Steel Hour on April 12, 1955, was later published in this 1957 Bantam paperback. | |
Also known as | Theater Guild on the Air |
Genre | Anthology drama |
Written by | Various writers |
Directed by | Various directors |
Presented by | Lawrence Langner, Roger Pryor |
Starring | Broadway and Hollywood actors |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 10 |
Executive producers | Armina Marshall, George Lowther |
Producers | George Kondolf, Carol Irwin |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Theatre Guild |
Network | ABC (09/09/45-06/05/49) NBC (09/11/49-06/07/53) |
Release | 1953 (1953) – 1963 (1963) |
The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio program that preceded it were both sponsored by the United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel).
Theatre Guild on the Air
[edit]The series originated on radio in the 1940s as Theatre Guild on the Air. Organized in 1919 to improve the quality of American theater, the Theatre Guild first experimented wi
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Circle in the Square papers
1906-2004 DCircle in the Square Theater was founded in 1950 by Theodore Mann and José Quintero in an abandoned nightclub in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The name refers to the fact that it was a theater in the round located at 5 Sheridan Square. Mann and Quintero had become acquainted while doing summer stock with the Loft Players at the Maverick Theater in Woodstock, New York, and hoped to create a year-round repertory company in the City, and ultimately, their project became the epicenter of a national movement for Off-Broadway theater. Circle in the Square was conceived as a not-for-profit theater, and at the time that it ceased operations as a producing entity in 1996, it remained one of the only not-for-profit theaters operating on Broadway, as well as one of the oldest producing theaters in New York City.
Circle’s first production was Howard Richardson and Richard Berney’s Dark of the Moon. Tickets were sold for $1.50 apiece. Other shows staged during Circle’s inaugural season included Jean Anouihl’s Antigone and Federico Garcia Lorca’s Yerma.
In 1952, Circle produced a revival of Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke starring Geraldine Page, which had failed on Broadway a few years earlier. New York Times theater critic Bro
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