Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" will be the first college production to appear in the refurbished Brattle Theater. The Harvard Theater Workshop, ten of whose members jointly own the Brattle st. structure, has chosen this epic of the Trojan war for their initial play...
This production of "Troilus and Cressida" will be experimental in character, with scenery and costuming planned along abstract lines. HTW is also eager to use the facilities of the first real theater in which they have ever played...
Writing a tour de force for the theater is in many ways a more difficult job than merely writing a play, a task Miss Gordon has twice before proved she could do. It requires both daring and discretion; the knowledge of one's boundaries is essential for its success. But most of all, the playwright needs an icon with more general appeal than Miss Gordon. She is a fine actress, very feminine and tender. She has a funny little was of running up the musical scale when she speaks, letting her voice crack, gently, half...
...Toronto, where Oliver Twist had been showing for three weeks, the theater manager noted little comment against Fagin, no unfavorable publicity, no effect on business. The Toronto Jewish Congress called on Rank representatives to complain, but later decided to drop the matter. "We feel," one was quoted as saying, that an Englishman has just as much right to complain about Bill Sikes." Could Rank quiet the din by reshooting some scenes in the $1,600,000 picture? It seemed impractical; there were too many shots of Fagin, and some members of the cast had scattered. Last week Rank announced that...
Last spring, the Dramatic Club moved into Boston's Plymouth Theater with their production of Irwin Shaw's "The Survivors," a play about civil war veterans...