Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brings guest artists to Harvard to work on a small scale with undergraduates. Last year, the program brought the director of Broadway's Pacific Overtures. He ran a three-part seminar with students interested in theatrical direction. This year the office will offer seminars with tenor Paul Sperry and playwright Jonathan Levy. Sculptor Ann Sperry will offer a seminar as well as lecturing about contemporary American women artists. "We want to get students involved with artists in a way that they couldn't themselves," Mayman says, and the personal interaction that goes on in the seminar ensures this goal...
...flatten Cheever's subtleties into middle-brow platitudes. In O Youth and Beauty!, Michael Murphy plays a onetime Princeton track star, now a bank executive, who vexes his wife (Kathryn Walker) by jumping over furniture at cocktail parties. Not content to let this conceit speak for it self, Playwright Gurney supplies dialogue to explain that the hero is "surmounting the obstacles of middle age . . . [by] leaping above the paraphernalia of middle-class life." In The Five-Forty-Eight, a dance of death between a married man (Laurence Luckinbill) and his jilted lover (Mary Beth Hurt), the story...
DIED. Clarence Muse, 89, black character actor, playwright, director and songwriter (When It's Sleepy Time Down South); of a stroke; in Ferris, Calif. A law school graduate, the Baltimore-born Muse abandoned his legal ambitions early on to become a vaudeville singer. "The public believed in the Negro's voice," he later explained, "but not tin his] intelligence." He made the first of his more than 200 screen appearances in Hearts in Dixie (1929), the first all-black musical, played Jim in Huckleberry Finn two years later and had his last role in the newly released...
Much of this issue was absurd and distasteful, especially from a woman's point of view. Faludi and Devall's articles, about playwright Arthur Miller and feminist Garry Trudeau respectively, relegated to the back of the Arts Supplement, did something to antidote the miasmal matter of the first half. Their writing and those about whom they chose to write reassured me that indeed, unlike most of this week's Crimson Arts Supplement, some art does serve the end of social liberation. Sincerely, Mary Holland...
Theater is a powerful form of expression and source of "enormous vitality" in China, playwright Arthur Miller told 50 students gathered in Currier House Senior Common Room yesterday...