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Amidst the unbearable heat and humidity of a Cambridge July, the Harvard-Radcliffe 2006 Summer Theatre Company opened their three-show program with Clark Gesner’s famous Broadway adaptation of Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts.” As the songs and scenes pass seamlessly by, the revival becomes a superb metaphor for a Harvard summer: while playful, young, and confident, it still manages to ask unanswerable questions with colorful hints of philosophical depth. For this reason, it was unfortunate to see some empty seats in the audience. Apparently, there are only a handful...
George Balanchine was the great melder of high and popular art in dance. The young Russian came to the U.S. in 1933 and worked on Broadway, in Hollywood and for the circus (devising a piece for 14 elephants) before starting the New York City Ballet in 1948 and creating works from Stravinsky (39 in all) and Tchaikovsky (the perennial Nutcracker). He said his mission was to "entertain the public" as well as elevate it. This 1984 documentary does both...
DIED. LLOYD RICHARDS, 87, pioneer of African-American theater and Broadway's first black director; of heart failure; in Manhattan. The son of a Jamaican carpenter, he studied theater in college, was named artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference in 1968, and in 1979 was appointed dean of the Yale School of Drama. Richards was an unknown director in 1959 when he staged the first Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun. An inspiring drama teacher and cultivator of young talent, he championed such young playwrights as Wendy Wasserstein, David Henry Hwang...
...success. (It's booked to run for 10 years, in the space once occupied by the Siegfried & Roy animal act that established Vegas's love for outsize theatrical spectacle.) The top ticket price is $150 for the 95-min. show, which runs ten times a week, compared to a Broadway musical's eight. The show could well take its place in the Cirque empire: five permanent shows in Vegas, another (La Nouba) at Walt Disney World in Florida, and six tent shows, from the new Corteo to the 14-year-old Saltimbanco. These enterprises are hugely successful; their total annual...
...anyone with the slightest contact with our alma mater, “The History Boys” becomes much more than a 2004 London West End hit transplanted onto Broadway. In the context of the Thatcherite eighties, the play focuses around eight students from a north English grammar school seeking admission to the world’s most exclusive and competitive educational institutions. Pressured from the school administration and attracted primarily by the behemoth of reputation, they linger at school beyond their final examinations for extra classes in preparation for admission interviews and papers...