Word: stephen
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...that was filled in 1983, when the La Jolla Playhouse opened on a suburban campus of the University of California at San Diego. Although the playhouse has staged musicals (including 1984's Big River, which went on to win seven Tony Awards on Broadway, and a 1985 reworking of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along overseen by the composer), most of its summerlong schedule consists of unfamiliar plays or eccentric looks at familiar ones. Against all odds, the company is becoming a financial as well as artistic success...
Playwright Stephen Metcalfe (Strange Snow, The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers) risks cartoonish farce in scenes between Emily and her detached, all- business father; meetings between Emily and her brittle, suicidal mother come close to soap opera. Metcalfe binds the play's kaleidoscopic moods with chatty monologues by the central character. In a role that could easily become unlikable, Madolyn Smith, best known as the star of the CBS-TV mini-series If Tomorrow Comes, enlists playgoers' sympathy from the first moment and charms them right through her final perplexed, ingratiating grin. She is so appealing, so candid and self-critical...
...group of summer school students, working with Professor Stephen Williams and John D. Stubbs, Jr. '80 found an assortment of refuse that would make the most hardened dorm crewer gasp...
Crimson in Triumph By Joe Bertagna '73 Stephen Greene Press...
...presented today at 7 p.m. on WNEV-TV,Channel 7, in honor of the 350th. The showcombines film clips from the Harvard Archives andfresh interviews with some current highereducation notables at Harvard and other Harvardbigwigs such as Harvard President Derek C. Bok,Harvard's Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen J.Gould and Harvard's Boylston Professor of Oratoryand Rhetoric Seamus Heaney. Happy 350th to Harvardand everyone else and may higher education prosperat Harvard for at least 350 more years...