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...might audition next year. Freshman year her first role was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, then she went on to The Glass Menagerie. "I was playing old Southern ladies all freshman year." The Harvard, Massachusetts, native is ending her acting career at Harvard playing Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. In between she has played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and has appeared in Richard II, Troilus and Cressida, Savage Love and Blood Wedding, among others. "I've gained a lot of range and diversity, a confidence and ease," she says...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: ...And It Pays Badly, Too | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

...left too, eventually. On the way to the St. Charles Avenue streetcar I engaged in a brief discussion with a small boy who wanted to bet me that he could guess where I'd bought my loafers. A tall man gave me a warning glance as he passed: "On your feet, man. It's Bourbon Street...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: A Sinking Feeling | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...should go to college or start adult life, and whether the younger (Anthony Rapp), a child actor, should enter an elite high school or embark on a national tour. (In one of Playwright Furth's slyer jokes, the unnamed play the boy is invited to join is recognizably A Streetcar Named Desire.) The father, who lacks a high school diploma, harangues his family about education and ambition. The mother (Judith Ivey) wants her children to choose for themselves. He makes his points with force; she wins hers with guile. Precious Sons resembles a "well-made play," much like those William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Violence and Affection Precious Sons | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

Albright dashed to the streetcar, flung his long frame on board and beat the courier to the White House, where Legislative Clerk Maurice Latta was also moved by his enthusiasm and promised to slip the bill into the President's night papers and even try to rescue the pen used in signing. A few hours later, Albright picked up a phone and heard the magic words: "The President signed the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Present At the Preservation | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...Streetcar Named Desire: by Tennessee Williams, Boston University School of Theatre Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: November 14-20 | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

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