Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American public as Chuck Yeager, Sam Shepard has spent most of his time for the past twenty years not as an astronaut, nor as an actor, but as a playwright. And it was as a playwright that Shepard came to Boston last month to stage a production on the Loeb mainstage with Shepard's friend and collaborator avante garde director Joseph Chaikin...
...Shepard announced to a group of Harvard students yesterday that he had decided to postpone the completion of that project with Chaikin. The production, originally slated for completion sometime this month, was funded by the American Repertoiry Theater (A.R.T.) but would have appeared on the Loeb Experimental stage, Jonathan E. Marks, University liason officer with the A.R.T., said yesterday...
...first annual evenings of staged readings will take place in late March at the Loeb Ex. The deadline for plays is quickly approaching, so all closet playwrights had better get their scripts, or even selected scenes of yet unfinished plays, into Susan Wang, secretary of the Harvard Drama Club. Wang says she came up with the idea late last term after realizing that few chances existed for students to get enough financial backing or physical space to have their plays staged. Student actors, directors, and production-oriented thespians will also be able to get into the act. The emphasis...
Little preparation will go into the atual performances; props will be minimal and actors will have the scripts in hands. People will come in the Loeb Ex and see scenes from the original plays enacted informally on the intimate, yet mostly empty, stage. Thus fat Wang says stie flas gotten more response from non-Harvard students than from actual undergraduates. After postering the Loeb and other places on campus, she says she has received calls from Harvard administrators and even a script from a senior at Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, who won the Young Playwright's Horizon Award...
...lack of emphasis on student playwrights at Harvard. This special evening of staged readings will enable students who don't necessarily take Alfred's playwriting course to work on their plays. The project also realizes that the efforts of undergraduate writers who, unless they get a slot at the Loeb Ex. are often forced to keep their plays on paper...