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Bernanke joins a list of Class Day speakers that includes such notables as Mother Teresa, playwright Arthur Miller, former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, and Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King...

Author: By Crimson News Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bernanke To Address Seniors on Class Day | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...accountability of those who worked with the Nazis. He was known to recall his works if he didn't like the way they had been adapted, often out of concern that they would lose their social relevance. "A great screenwriter should be given the same consideration as a great playwright," he once said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...relationships between the three characters. Deeley and Anna engage in a battle over who really “possesses” Kate, using language and recollections as their weapons of choice.“Old Times” contains many of Pinter’s trademarks as a playwright: uncertainty, an unspoken struggle for verbal control, sexual tension, questions with no answers, and an exploration of the nature of memory. These characteristics make Pinter’s work wonderfully frustrating and absorbing, but at the same time create difficulties for the director, who must clearly convey the central ideas despite...

Author: By Ali R. Leskowitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pinter Made Personal in ‘Old Times’ | 4/1/2008 | See Source »

...determination to let the characters speak for themselves will undoubtedly leave the show open to a healthy amount of interpretation. In a play most famous for the post-show dialogue it sparks, this doesn’t trouble Wright in the least. “[The playwright, Shanley,] has talked before about how we’re living in an age of certainty and how people have this steadfast position that they hold to, so that they can’t have any dialogue,” Wright says. “I know the war in Iraq...

Author: By Amanda C. Lynch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Sara L. Wright '09 | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...cast a role. It made me feel like I was the clearinghouse for black talent. What are we, 1-800-Cast-a-Negro?”BlackCAST has been active on the Harvard campus since 1960, the beginning of an era that spawned the Black Arts movement and saw playwrights like Amiri Baraka and Edward Bullins employ a new discourse of black nationalism on the stage.But it’s no longer 1960. The extreme and often violent rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement has faded, and Baraka and Bullins have ceded their territory to less radical theater artists like...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staging the Race Debate | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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