Theatre: Season's Best in Manhattan

Hellzapoppin. Like life in a nut house at the height of a bombardment (TIME, Oct. 3).

Sing Out the News. A fast, lively, pro-Roosevelt revue (TIME, Oct. 3).

Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Clare Boothe's rollicking farce about a coy Southern belle who outsmarts Broadway's slickest wise-acres (TIME, Oct. 10).

Oscar Wilde. An honest play enlivened with Wilde's own wit, enriched with Robert Morley's superb acting (TIME, Oct. 24).

Hamlet. Maurice Evans in an uncut version: twice as long as the usual Hamlet, twice as good (TIME, Oct. 24).

Abe Lincoln In Illinois. Robert E. Sherwood's enthusiastic...