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...environment sheltered from the hit-or-extinction extremities of Broadway. Over the decades attempts have been made, with varying degrees of success, at New York City's Lincoln Center and Public Theater and at regional companies including the Guthrie in Minneapolis, the Yale Repertory Theater and Robert Brustein's American Repertory Theater at Harvard. Last week the newest candidate took center stage. The American National Theater, headed by Peter Sellars, 27, opened at Washington's Kennedy Center with a less than wondrous Henry IV, Part I by that "American," William Shakespeare. Sellars' rationale for starting with an Elizabethan masterwork rather...
Designed a year ago by Robert S. Brustein, director of the Loeb Drama Center, and noted author Buchwald, the event's organizers view it as a creative and entertaining way to raise money for the theater "I verything we realize goes to the support of the theater," Brustein said...
Buchwald, who also volunteered his services as auctioneer a year ago, will oversee the sale of the more unusual items, such as a "walk on" in the ARI's production of "Love's Labour's Lost" and a tennis game on Martha's Vineyard against himself and Brustein...
Trips, bonds, paintings, and dinner parties attracted the most bidders last year, according to Brustein, who added that such offerings are once again a large part of this year's fare. The tennis game is also a repeat of a previous success...
According to Robert S. Brustein, director of the Loeb Drama Center, Art had a small role in the spring 1980 Loeb production of "Inspector General" by zany director Peter Senars '80. Arthur has been on ice there ever since...