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...honored with the prize. Following the ceremony, John Lithgow ’67, who was last year’s commencement speaker and founded the Arts First program, led a conversation with Durang in front of a sold out audience at the Agassiz Theater. As Summers introduced the controversial playwright, he noted that both he and Durang shared the same disregard for political correctness.“The more sensitive the subject, the more provocative and direct is his approach,” Summers said, before presenting Durang with the medal. During the interview, Durang discussed the inception...
...Avant-garde art is hard; dying is easy. In 1991, languishing with a fatal bout of AIDS in a Manhattan hospital, the lifelong kvetch was suddenly buoyant. The longtime starving artist told playwright Ron Tavel, "It?s the best food I?ve had in my life." His mind has sustenance too: dreams of his eternal movie goddess, Maria (not Mario) Montez...
...House Friday May 5, 200612:00 PM TGIF: Holyoke Center Outdoor StageHolyoke Center 1:00 PM Fogg Museum Open HouseFogg Art Museum 2:00 PM A Tale of Two CitiesRadcliffe Yard 3:00 PM A Tale of Two CitiesRadcliffe Yard3:30 PM The 2006 Harvard Arts Medal ceremony honoring playwright Christopher Durang ’71Agassiz Theatre A Conversation with Christopher DurangAgassiz Theatre 4:00 PM Timmy’s Big-Top AdventureWinthrop House Junior Common Room5:30 PM Performance/installation-in-progress-in-clay: Rachel Cohen ’95Adams House Art Space7:00 PM Dudley House Film FestivalDudley House Sangeet Leverett House7...
...surrounded by everyone else who stood out their high schools, and you go ‘Huh. Maybe I’m not that special.’”It would seem that the Harvard community has come to disagree with that assessment of the playwright. Durang says he was “very surprised” and “flattered” when John A. Lithgow ’67—who acted in Durang’s 1982 “Beyond Therapy”—called to inform him that he?...
...acted in high school, and pursued it at Harvard until she fell into costuming, assistant directing, and ultimately producing. She learned the ropes of each job informally. Savitsky says she has done everything from visiting a bleak but beautiful island off the coast of Ireland that greatly influenced the playwright of “The Playboy of the Western World” to spending eight hours burning prom dresses for the costumes of prisoners in another play, so that they might look as though they had been “dragged out of the furnace...