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The one thing almost all solo actors have in common is that they are also the authors of their shows; they seem drawn to the form as playwrights even more than as performers. Economically, they improve their prospects of getting produced because one-person shows involve fewer salaries -- onstage, obviously...
The evening was conceived as a tribute by New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which credits the Group Theater with spiritual parentage, not only of its own drama program but of much of the naturalism, progressivism, bohemianism and political activism in several decades of American drama...
The trouble for many students seems to start freshman year, when advising is narrowed to focus exclusively on every up and down of the freshman year experience. Evangeline Morphos, a senior adviser for several years in the Yard, says the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) emphasizes too much "how to...
Proctors, Morphos says, are not qualified to serve as academic advisers. But about 75 per cent of freshmen are assigned to their proctor as their academic adviser, isolating them from seeking faculty advice from the start. Students "need to be fired up about academics here," Morphos says, but the FDO...
Even if resident and non-resident proctors and advisers are equipped with adequate information, Porter says, forwarding particular advice "is a tricky thing." As Lewis says, "I hope people aren't in the business of telling people what to do." Porter and senior advisers James D. Mayer and Evangeline M...