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...from “Chicago,” and donate the funds to the Office For The Arts at Harvard, as an endowment for House drama productions.Hanley’s expectations are not entirely unfounded. Last year, he directed Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” for the Winthrop House Drama Society, with unexpected success.“We sold out all five shows,” he recalls with pride. “We were the first House play to make a significant profit. We made $900, which is sort...
Hanley’s expectations—while seemingly implausible—are not entirely unfounded. Last year, he directed Steve Martin’s "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" for the Winthrop House Drama Society, selling out all five shows and making an unprecedented...
Hanley sums up his goals for the final cast of "Chicago" in a reference to his previous work on "Picasso." "When you were watching the scene, it wasn’t a play," he recalls. "People felt like they were looking through a window—it’s the goal of theater, a scene of life." That has been Hanley’s guiding vision throughout the Common Casting process: the hope of making his expansive dreams very real...
...Boys. So heartfelt and persuasive was his embrace of L.A. that within a few years his lambent paintings of lawn sprinklers, swimming pools and palm trees became part of everybody's mental picture of the place. Although he saw it all through eyes schooled in Piero della Francesca and Picasso, you could tell that what he loved above all was simply how of-the-moment L.A. was, with its sunstruck hedonism and emerging sexual freedoms, so unlike the confines of postwar Britain. It's useful to recall that one of Hockney's enduring contributions to the history of the nude...
...unquestionably weird, but the artist has used shape and color, especially the dead black of ravens, horse and drooping leaves, in an abstract way that was admired by painter Paul Gauguin. Eventually, Rousseau was adopted by an avant-garde circle that also included the young painter Pablo Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. They nicknamed him Le Douanier (the customs man), and traded untrustworthy anecdotes about his gullibility. "These were artists chucking the rule book away," says Morris. "They saw in him an artist who couldn't subscribe to the rule book." In Rousseau's own tall tales...