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Michael Tueth, S.J, professor emeritus at Fordham University, has retired and is living in St. Louis, where he is engaged in writing, conducting retreats, providing spiritual direction and other ministries.
FOREVER YOUNG. Max Crumm as Matt and Samantha Bruce as Luisa in “The Fantasticks”
Theater
Michael V. Tueth, S.J.
In the late 1950s, Broadway and Off Broadway theater had become a bit grim. The major hits of the era presented a rather pessimistic view of life, especially of the family: the home as prison (“A Raisin in the Sun,” “The Miracle Worker”), monster parents (“Gypsy”)
Bad Memories: Zachary Quinto as Tom Wingfield, Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield and Celia Keenan-Bolger as Laura Wingfield. Photograph by Michael J. Lutch.
Theater
Michael V. Tueth, S.J.
Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie” first appeared on Broadway in 1944, beginning what would be a wave of great American plays about troubled families. Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” and “Death of a Salesman,” William Inge’s “Picnic,&