Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then of course there is the Loeb Drama Center. Students have used the facility since it was built in 1960 and have shared the Mainstage with the American Repertory Theater since the company moved to Cambridge in 1979. Before 1960, students could use a space located where Grendel's Restaurant is now and Sanders Theater. In addition to the Mainstage, the Loeb has an Experimental Theater which hosts only student shows and the Agassiz Theater across the street is another performance space available mostly for orginal works...
Before the ART moved into the Loeb, there were "many more" student productions on the Mainstage, says Donald R. Soule, technical director of the Loeb. Now there are only two per semester in addition to the six Ex slots. Competition to direct in these spaces is intense; there were eight Mainstage applications and 29 Ex applications last semester...
...three Ex shows and directed A Bunch of Little Mamet Things there last semester says, "The Ex is special because you don't have to worry about dealing with house drama societies. And, you don't have to worry about getting an audience. Plus, there's all the Loeb equipment...
Written by Moliere, Directed by Peter Sagal At the Loeb Mainstage, This weekend and next...
What makes these performances even more enjoyable is Sagal's intimate staging and inventive set. Foregoing the Loeb's cavernous regular stage, Sagal built a new set where the front section of seats used to be, surrounding the stage on three sides with seats. During Arnolphe's "asides," Oleson comes right up to people in the front rows and talks directly to them. The high degree of interaction makes the impact of the performances greater than "normal" staging would have...