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...West End (Tiny Alice), on Broadway (Abelard and Heloise) and, by preference, in Britain's regional repertory theaters. His success was certified in 1973 when, at age 31, he won one of the most prestigious repertory-theater posts in North America, as artistic director of Canada's Stratford Festival...
Phillips built a justified following at Stratford for his venturesome direction of more than 30 productions. But after seven years there led to "utter exhaustion," he quit and, amid acrimony over his abrupt departure, resumed the roving life of a guest director. Friends predicted that he would find himself longing for a home, and they were right. Last month, in sedate, affluent London, Ont. (pop. 255,000), about 40 miles from Stratford, Phillips launched a new troupe that is as ambitious as its title: the Grand Theater Company...
...studiously Edwardian The Doctor's Dilemma. Phillips will direct four of the nine main stage productions and co-direct three more. (The schedule also includes five children's shows, adapted from stories by Paul Gallico.) The actors, many of them veterans of the Phillips era at Stratford, work in true repertory: a weekend visitor can see four plays in two days; at its peak during December, the Grand will offer seven main stage shows and three children's plays. With only modest government and corporate support, the company is counting on ticket sales to defray an optimistic...
...million dollars so far." Yet a House-Senate conference committee refused to allow the Army to choose a second manufacturer. The apparent reason: members bowed to pressures from New England legislators to keep the jobs dependent on it with the current contractor, Avco Corp.'s Lycoming Division in Stratford, Conn...
...Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Not long afterward he became Orson Welles' principal collaborator in the renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some of Playhouse 90's best episodes, then establishes a superior drama department at Lincoln Center...