Word: thea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...STORY OF ST. PETER'S by Thea and Richard Bergere. 128 pages. Dodd, Mead. $4.95. How the basilica was created, with a glance at Emperor Constantine's church, begun in 324 A.D. and replaced by St. Peter's after it nearly collapsed in the 16th century...
...about twenty parts, in short, in any of which a bad performance can spoil a scene. Some fine actors have taken on these roles--Emily Levine as Mrs. Gabor, in particular, Mark Ritts as Johnny Rilow, Susan Channing as Ilse, and Patricia Hawkins, who creates a character out of Thea's few lines. But what is most remarkable about Babe's direction is that he makes good scenes out of his less-experienced, less-talented actors. He takes a company of professors which has just butchered a comic scene, and makes of them, with low noises, easy movements, and suggestive...
...THEA EKSTRÖM-Viviano, 42 East 57th...
...gypsy and former nightclub performer, Thea Ekström is also well known as an artist in her native Sweden, and her works are in the collections of French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou and Painter Jean Dubuffet. This is New York's first chance to inspect her unusual talent. In silverpoint on oil-and-canvas, she draws tiny signs and symbols around the edges of lonely landscapes that are guarded by a pale sun and filled with little animals, intertwining snakes, and under the earth's surface, a strange, subterranean life...
...Black Theater with Lanterna Magica, another Czech theatrical group, which dazzled visitors to the 1958 Brussels World's Fair with a theatrical hybrid of song, speech, and film bits projected onto odd-shaped screens. But Srnec is swiftly clearing up the confusion the world over. The Black Thea ter was a hit at the 1962 Edinburgh Festival, recently finished a successful stand in West Germany, and is now making a 105-performance tour of Australia. Last week it opened in Hobart, where Tasmanian society treated the group's coming as almost the greatest event since the arrival...