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When Bonnie Raitt spoke at Agassiz Theater last Friday as part of the Arts First week celebration, she trumpeted the Harvard she knew in the 1960s--a campus which thrived on activism and artistry, protest and politics, and above all else, awareness. What happened to that Harvard...
...Glass Menagerie. An old chestnut by our favorite postmodern American playwright, Tennessee Williams. Tickets: $5 students, $7 everyone else. Agassiz Theater...
...This At Home. The Harvard Magic Society provides entertainment "not appropriate for young children." Tickets: $5, students, available at Sanders Box Office. Agassiz Theater...
Saturday night at the Agassiz Theater, the curtain opened to a packed house. However, the average age of the crowd was well over 40, with the exception of young children (other than pre-frosh) and roommates of the cast. Why was it that the latest Gilbert & Sullivan production did not seem to appeal to the college-aged crowd? Was it that so many other plays and parties were happening that night as well? Was it the idea of a comic British play first performed in 1877 that turned of most theater-goers...
...particularly pleasant surprise of The Sorcerer is the orchestra. Still under the faithful direction of Bradford Chase, the musicians only occasionally overpower the singers. This problem has plauged many a show held in the Agassiz Theater. Fortunately, here it is finally remedied: One can hear most of the main characters even from the seats closest to the orchestra...