Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem of eliminating Ajax violently but gracefully from the east of characters of Troilns and Cressida has been giving the Harvard Theater Workshop more trouble than the rest of the play put together recently...
...presentation of Handel's "Messiah" will be given next week by the combined efforts of the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. The performance is to be at Sanders Theater at 8:15 p.m. next Wednesday and Thursday...
There may be no theater in this country in another ten years. At present it is a very risky business gamble to produce any show, the cost of production demanding that successful plays possess either a well-known star or a script that doesn't deviate from one of the recognized "sure-fire" formulas. Theater art rarely can figure in the Broadway scheme. If production costs continue to mount, so will ticket prices, and there's no surer way to shut off the theater from the masses than through their pocketbooks...
Many of the people who concern themselves with such far-sighted matters feel that the only way out of this impending crisis is by decentralization of the theater on Broadway and de-emphasizing the "star system." This would probably require government subsidy of a revolving chain of professional repertory groups strung across the country. The United States is the only major country that does not today subsidize the arts, and there is currently a movement afoot to have President Truman create a new cabinet post--Secretary of Fine Arts. Surely a capitalistic democracy has a need for artists...
Virtuoso violinists frequently play excerpts from Bach's Partitas and Sonatas for violin Alone as encores. Seldom are they ambitions enough to plan programs which include he whole set. But Alexander Schneider is doing just that in Sanders Theater under the auspices of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. He played three last night; tonight he will do the rest...