Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devil's Disciple. The Summer School Repertory Theater is starting its three-show season with its obligatory bicentennial tribute--George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, and the Loeb Drama Center is already decked out in red, white and blue bunting to publicize the July 4 (when else?) opening of this British comic melodrama about the American Revolution...
...expensive--ticket prices are only slightly lower than downtown--but the quality of its productions is reputedly high. George Hamlin, producing director of the Loeb, recruits the company from all across the country, inviting noted New York and Boston area actors and other younger performers chosen through a series of national auditions to participate...
George Hamlin, producing director of the Loeb, calls the Rep the most visible of Summer School arts programs, both because of its successful 16-year history and because "we do more than anyone else"--48 performances worth...
...most democratic ensemble, at least when it comes to participation in its performances. While Dance Center students pool their talents with professionals on-stage and off, theater students must content themselves instead with the handful of Theatre Arts courses offered by the Summer School--in the summer the Loeb becomes the exclusive province of professionals...
This summer--in addition to the opening play by Shaw, which will open July 4 and run through July 24, the Loeb will host Life with Father and That Championship Season for 12 nights each. All three are geared to fulfilling the second need Crooks outlined--providing what Hamlin calls "background enrichment" for Summer School students and the community at large...