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Held in the Loeb Experimental Theater but set in outer space, the improv festival—which, after a Friday night viewing, has officially earned the FlyBy stamp of approval—will feature not only Harvard’s IGP but also improv groups from schools nearby. Friday night’s shows included Dartmouth’s Dog Day Players and Wesleyan’s New Teen Force. Saturday night will spotlight Columbia’s Fruit Paunch and Brown’s Starla and Sons...
...department will also add Martin Puchner, a co-chair of Columbia University’s Ph.D. theater program, and Harvard associate professor of English Stephen L. Burt as full professors, according to English Department Chair James T. Engell...
Puchner, who is also from Columbia and also on leave, will teach courses in modern drama and theater. He attended Harvard Summer School in the late 1980s and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1998. In an e-mailed statement, Puchner wrote that he was “excited to be back for good...
...would like to build bridges to [Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club] and the [American Repertory Theater], especially since Harvard is moving to give the arts, including theater, a more important place,” Puchner wrote. “When I teach drama, it’s important to me to convey what happens when a dramatic text is performed on stage: it’s a thrilling but also mysterious process...” he added...
...Georgia gubernatorial candidate Sonny Purdue that depicted the sitting governor, Roy Barnes, as "King Roy," a giant rat with a gold crown, stomping like Godzilla through Atlanta. That was before the advent of YouTube and viral videos, so he screened the film for journalists at a movie theater; the next day, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran an image from the spot on its front page. Purdue went on to win the election...