Word: performer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other American amateurs are better known: Will Rogers, who had a trick secreted in a pocket when his body was lifted from a plane crash; the late literary critic Edmund Wilson, who fooled his dinner guests with effects; Gary Grant, who likes to perform as the Great Carini at meetings at the Magic Castle...
Awake and Sing!, Clifford Odets's social chronicle of life in Depression era America, is the Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater's second offering of the season and it has its premier Wednesday night. The play itself is brilliant, but it's long and extremely difficult to perform well. The Summer Rep has set itself up for a real challenge here; this has to work as more than just nostalgia if it's to be worth the time and the effort. The Crimson's review will appear in Friday's edition. Wednesday's and Thursday's performances begin...
Anne Peretz said that her husband will perform some of her former duties in the House but other people in the house will also take up some of the slack. She said that she actually has been doing very little in the House for the past few months...
...director, however, Martin's touch is less sure. Several of the sketches--particularly those in which Martin does not perform--maintain a heavy--handed pretentious quality. Rather than portraying a situation they strain after some large generalizing statement about the nature of man, beauty and hope. The other performers, Martin's students, cannot match their teacher's brillance. Cindy Benson is too earthbound as the dancing doll that comes to life in the "Dollmaker's Dream" and both she and Stephen Driscoll, who is quite good as the dollmaker, seem to fight against the familiarity of their material...
...Babies, the New York Theater Company's improvisional group, will perform tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in Longfellow Hall for free. The group's visit to Cambridge is sponsored by a Vis Stud video workshop; a rare treat that's not to be missed...