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‘Saint’ to the Rescue: The latest work by Tony Randall’s National Actors Theater, a production of George Bernard Shaw’s “St. Joan,” opened Sunday at Broadway’s Lyceum Theater and is being called by critics the strongest effort to date in two seasons of often disappointing productions. “This is the first production that justifies the existence” of the National Actors Theater, wrote Howard Kissel of the Daily News. Clive Barnes of the New York Post said it is “the best overall production Tony Randall’s critically beleaguered, not to say belabored, company has so far given us.” Michael Kuchwara of the Associated Press said the play “offers hope that the National Actors Theater has turned itself around.” Maryann Plunkett stars.