Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having sponsored a concert of piano trios two weeks ago, the Summer School offered this Monday evening a program of music for the much rarer combination of violin and 'cello, a sparse medium that inflicts a good many special problems on the composer...
Earle Edgerton, who played a leading role in the HSTG's production of No Exit last summer, will star in the new production as Sheridan Whiteside, the superbly nasty "wit, critic, lecture, radio orator, and intimate friend of the great and near-great" who is marooned by a broken hip in the home of what appears to be an aggressively ordinary Ohio family. Mikel Lambert, a student at the Summer School, will play his romantically involved secretary, and Marguerite Tarrant, a student at the Yale School of Drama, will appear as a nymphomaniacally inclined actress...
...some reason, the Boston Summer Playhouse has chosen a large percentage of highly sophisticated comedies for the season, but so far they have not given evidence that their actors have sufficient flair for high comedy to merit the choice. Humor certainly makes for "light summer fare," but somehow comedy without flair is more difficult to swallow than drama without guts...
...Harvard Summer Theatre Group will give Cambridge its only live drama of the summer, when it opens its production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, on Thursday August...
...opening night last Tuesday, most of the Tufts players seemed bent more on obscuring Betti's genius than on revealing it. Much of the trouble must no doubt be attributed to the inevitable pressures of summer stock on a small, young, and inexperienced company; the relentless demand for an entire new production each week cannot help but produce some shaky premieres, with cues missed and whole speeches being dropped right and left. One had the sense of watching a late rehearsal rather than an actual performance, in fact, and it is therefore particularly difficult to pass judgment...