Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wonderland attracted the attention of the Manhattan Project but an avant-grade sort of theater group headed by a guy named Andre Gregory in Manhattan. As I recall their production involved lots of vaudeville-type stuff and so on and got good reviews and is coming to the Loeb at 8 p.m. on Monday, staying until Wednesday, and being followed by Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME...
...know anything about THE GEORGE FAISON UNIVERSAL DANCE EXPERIENCE, except that it's opening tonight at 8 at the Loeb, and also has performances tomorrow and Saturday...
Beckett's HAPPY DAYS is opening at the Loeb Ex tonight at 8:30. It's a two-character play with two acts, I believe, one of whom is buried up to her waist in the first act and up to her neck in the second, and The Crimson's expert on Beckett says it's not his best play. But how bad can it be? Till Saturday...
...remarkable similarity across the board. If a critic wants to write truly knowledgeable reviews, that critic must begin with the institutional structures that fund theater at Harvard: the House drama societies, the Gilbert and Sullivan Board, the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and at the Loeb Drama Center, the University itself. In the main it is the student portion of these structures which decides who is to produce and direct what play, with what budget, and on what dates during the coming term...
...critic ought to see the producer and production staff putting it all together; ought to see the scheduling problems of doing a musical in the Loeb, or those of selecting a new script for the Hasty Pudding show, or of converting a dining hall into a theater and reconverting it after each night's performance. A reviewer needs to see these things, not to encourage a more lax critical standard (theater people are generally among the most demanding play-goers at Harvard), but to encourage a better, different standard. If The Crimson wants to rescue its reputation for the fires...