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Thus, it was quite a fair shake, and welcome slake to my bear thirst, to see the Harvard Yard Players' production of "Winnie-the-Pooh." Lehman Hall turned into a huge livingroom, and Pooh and friends entered when Milne began telling a story for Christopher Robin. The atmosphere was warm and informal, because there was no stage to separate the actors from the first ring of children seated on the floor. This close range prompted almost spontaneous audience participation. The actors introduced themselves in individual conversations with the children, shook hands, danced and even had two of the children help...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: A Musical Milne | 7/21/1972 | See Source »

...last war ends, we are shown a livingroom where four women of varying ages have lived through the surrounding hostilities. Their lives are empty except for that of the ten-year-old girl (Kate Soloman) who--in a single half hour--alludes to Homer, the Bible, Milton, James Joyce, and Lewis Carroll. The play smacks too much of a kind of self-indulgence that the author, David Richman, should avoid in the future. The bits of naturalistic dialogue that he does include are biting enough to be further developed in his next...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Turncoats & The Last War's End | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Similar group discussions among concerned Christians can be found all across the U.S. these days, as part of an interfaith experiment in grass-roots ecumenism called "livingroom dialogues." The idea of spiritual conversations by laymen, without the inhibiting presence of a priest or minister, was thought up by Paulist Father William B. Greenspun, who developed the program with the help of the Rev. William A. Norgren, the Episcopal director of the National Council of Churches' Faith and Order Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecumenism: Theology in the Living Room | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...Little Evil moves on one set, the combination livingroom-jailhouse of a Missouri farm house. Designed by Bruno Maine, the set is colorful and well-constructed. But director Leonard Altobell's staging isn't. He keeps his characters too bunched up in the middle of a centrally focused...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: A Little Evil | 2/13/1952 | See Source »

This is the story of an Alabama town named Pineboro, a place of "tasseled pink-shaded livingroom lamps and bare kitchen bulbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alabama Town | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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