Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was standing room only in the National Film Theater when London's cinema fans turned out en masse to hear nouvelle vague Director Jean-Luc Godard deliver a lecture on movie making. But the appointed hour came and went with no sign of the speaker. Finally, the disappointed audience was read a telegram from the elusive Godard: "If I am not there, take anyone in the street, the poorest if possible, give him my ? 100 lecture fee, and talk with him of images and sound, and you will learn from him much more than from me because...
...Atlanta, faced with the cost of separately housing a symphony hall, theater, museum, ballet studio and art school, culture-loving Georgians decided to pool their efforts and put them all under one roof in the new, $13 million Memorial Arts Center, the work of two local architectural firms. Dedicated to the memory of 122 Atlanta arts patrons who were killed in a Paris plane crash in 1962, the center opened last month with a splendid exhibition of 59 paintings and drawings loaned by Paris museums. Alas for good intentions, the building itself has a cold, pretentious look...
...Pinter play, the questions are the answers. The denouement is total uncertainty. The audience knows less at the end than it thought it knew at the beginning. Harold Pinter provokes a devilishly clever sort of participatory theater in which the playgoer is lured into playing detective without any clues...
...irony that fits in perfectly with Corsaro's overall concept, and most of those present agreed with Soprano Sills that the director had justified his radical ideas. Said Sills: "If you can convince someone that an old chestnut like Faust is real drama then that's living theater...
...true visual flair, nothing beats rhythm-and-blues. Snazzy-stepping, soul-singing performers like James Brown and Wilson Pickett sock it to the faithful with a furious abandon that shakes the halls on college campuses and urban temples like Harlem's Apollo Theater or Chicago's Regal. Of all the R-and-B cats, nobody steams up the place like Sam & Dave...