ReGroup Theatre Tries to Resuscitate Dawn Powell's 'Big Night'
ReGroup Theatre, dedicated to the production of plays staged by the Group Theatre in the early 20th century, is nothing if not ambitious in turning to “Big Night,” Dawn Powell’s caustic comedy about middle-class New Yorkers. The play, written in the late 1920s but staged by the Group in 1932, foundered in its debut. According to Harold Clurman in his company history “The Fervent Years,” …