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Article in the New York Herald Tribune (17 February 1957)
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A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.

— Kenneth Tynan

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Kenneth Tynan

About Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Tynan (2 April 1927 – 26 July 1980) was a British theatre critic, author and literary manager of London's National Theatre Conmpany for a decade from 1963.