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...They’re actually sewage pipes, but we’re doing our darndest to make them look like wood,” Little says. The skulls form part of the backdrop for the main stage production of Richard III, which opened last weekend...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Olympic Art | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

...made attraction is the Furnace Creek Inn itself, built in the 1920s at the base of the Funeral Mountains. With travertine walkways, red-tiled roof and elegantly understated European decor, the inn soon attracted politicians, businessmen and, in due time, the Hollywood crowd, who used Death Valley as a backdrop for hundreds of movies, television shows and commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Death Valley Delights | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...course, with its 6,623 yards of narrow, tree-lined fairways and quick greens seemed well-suited to Harvard’s controlled style of play. The sun, shining for the first time all season, and temperatures in the middle 70s provided a perfect backdrop. Scoring conditions were, simply put, the best the team had seen all spring...

Author: By Joshua M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Golf Takes Fifth at Ivies | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...Aztec temple, bongo drum and headdresses made of pheasant feathers do not immediately bring Shakespeare to mind. But in Richard III, which opens on the Loeb Mainstage this weekend under the direction of Kenneth P. Herrera ’03, the Aztec empire will serve as the backdrop to the Elizabethan historical tragedy...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Aztec Emperor ‘Richard’ Begins Mainstage Reign | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

RICHARD III. This production sets Shakespeare’s classic drama of English royalty in the Aztec Empire, at the brink of its fall. Set against the backdrop of Diego Rivera murals, live music and dance, the play follows the rise and fall of Richard as he manipulates superstition to gain power in a deeply religious society. This original interpretation promises to make the old play new again. Friday, April 24 through Saturday, May 3 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets available for $12/$8 at the Loeb Box Office (617) 547-8300. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, April 25-May 1 | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

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