Word: dexterous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of a troika headed by Executive Director Anthony A. Bliss, who has the final say on everything. But as an administrator, Bliss has declared his intention of staying out of day-to-day artistic decisions. Below him are Levine and Production Director John Dexter, 50, a stage director who has worked at the National Theater in England and on Broadway. "It's a new way of running this house, and it remains to be seen how successfully it works," says Levine. "I'm responsible for the aural part, John's responsible for the visual part...
...threatening pattern before, in All Along the Watchtower. But it's effective. Luther's congas charge through the chorus with the pace of horses' hoofbeats--the uninhibited power of Hurricane's vengeance. The verses are short, clipped--the insistent bullying of a Patterson cop extracting the cooperation of Arthur Dexter Bradley...
...Equus you should see it again for two reasons. The play has changed in small degrees, enough to say that it will be around for a long time and will be subject to radically different interpretations. The degree to which it hasn't changed is a measure of John Dexter's excellent direction...
...Chapin will step down after a stormy two-year tenure. The Met's executive committee has decided to entrust the immediate future of the company to a troika headed by Anthony A. Bliss, who was named executive director last November. Reporting to him will be Levine and John Dexter, formerly with Britain's National Theater and the Met's director of production. Levine will be only the second man in Met history to hold the title music director, and he is expected to have more authority than the first, Conductor Rafael Kubelik, who quit...
...Other winners: Best Play, Equus; Best Director of a Play, John Dexter (Equus); Best Actors and Actress in Plays, John Kani and Winston Ntshona (Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island), and Ellen Burstyn (Same Time, Next Year); Best Actor and Actress in Musicals, John Cullum (Shenandoah) and Angela Lansbury (Gypsy...