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...staging of the overture illustrates director David Carmen's fundamental assumption that continually bogs down an otherwise delightful production, that if the audience isn't kept constantly amused by broad gestures and incessant slapstick, it will become bored and confused. It's an unfortunate approach to take: surely the Agassiz Theater crowd is capable of picking up the wedding-cake suggestion and content to listen to the overture undistracted. But from start to finish, this is a Patience for the impatient...
Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz professor of Zoology emeritus, was one of the architects of this synthesis. His Systematics and the Origin of Species (1942) marked the climax of nearly three decades of work that spanned scientific disciplines and attacked the major problem left unsolved by Darwin, the origin of variation of physical features and traits among species. He and William B. Provine have outlined the development of this intellectual trend in a new book. The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, published by the Harvard University Press...
...adolescence, that "state of grace" before the mask has been cemented to one's face, when one's body contains the universe and one's possibilities are similarly boundless. He has gathered his former classmates and collaborators--as well as a talented group of undergraduates--together in the Agassiz Theatre to mount not a slick adventure but a philosophical meditation, with music and some dance, on an appealing, though troubling fairy tale. Mayer has clearly puzzled, and asked the right questions, and penetrated to the heart of the Aladdin legend...
Goody said yesterday the Agassiz Theatre's stage will be furnished with new lighting, a new curtain, an intercom system and a scenery shop. She added that plans also include air-conditioning, new dressing rooms, toilets and an after-theater common room...
...wall-breaking ceremony Friday afternoon launched a $2.5 million renovation of the Radcliffe Gym, the Agassiz Theatre and the Schlesinger Library...