Article: Turning the Tables in `Desk Set'

"The Desk Set"

Through June 6

Studio Theatre Tickets: 202/332-3300 If you think of theater of the 1950s, you might think of Tennessee Williams at his peak with "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Sweet Bird of Youth" or Eugene O'Neill scoring a hit with "Long Day's Journey Into Night." Yet in searching for a play to represent the era in the theater's Millennium Project, which features plays from each decade of this century, Studio Theatre artistic director Joy Zinoman bypassed the classics in favor of "The Desk Set," an upbeat Broadway play that inspired the film vehicle for Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The production combines elements from the stage script and movie screenplay. "We didn't ...

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