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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan's Kabuki or People's Theater is nowhere near as stuffy as the ancient and stylized No drama, but in 300 years, even the Kabuki has become a bit hidebound. Back in 1931, Japan's top Kabuki player, jut-jawed Actor Chojuro Kawarasaki, decided to liberate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Kabuki to the Kremlin | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard Classical Players, under the direction of Maurice R. Snowdon, instructor in Classics, and Robert A. Brooks '40, teaching fellow in Classics, slate their production for May 6 and 7 in the Agassiz Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Latin Play Since 1936 Boasts Plautus, Laughs, Girls | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

Starting in Agassiz theater tomorrow afternoon with a program of two plays, the freshmen will stage a cake baking contest, jazz concert, torchlight parade, candlelight banquet and finally a Saturday night prom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Freshmen Plan Big Weekend To Raise Funds for Adoption of DP | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes in Autumn Crocus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Once he became undisputed master of Drury Lane Theater, Garrick made improvements. He scrapped some of the more outrageous revisions of Shakespeare (though he lacked the courage to restore the tragic ending of Lear), and he insisted on sincerity in performances. Garrick's actors found themselves merged with their roles-even though the identification might sometimes become too complete. Once when Garrick spoke the line, "There's blood upon thy face," the poor fellow opposite was so startled that he flubbed his lines and cried out, "Is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lively Davy | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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