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...Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee, is an annihilating war of love-hatred fought between a middle-aged history professor and his wife, in which a younger guest couple are also savaged. Arthur Hill, as the professor, raises acting to the level of genius, and Uta Hagen, as his wife, is a virtuoso Medusa...
...cast is shatteringly good. Uta Hagen fills Martha with pantherish ferocity and untamed vulgarity. In a skillfully modulated performance, Arthur Hill as George limns a memorable portrait of the sadist as A.B., M.A., Ph.D. George Grizzard makes Nick a moral chameleon with all the courage of his connections, and when Nature passed out brains, Melinda Dillon's Honey was given cotton candy. The charged intensity that Director Alan Schneider brings to an evening full of talk is based on one penetrating insight-talk can kill, and murder is rarely a bore...
...Conductor Smith, 30, who "wanted to be a choir leader for as long as I can remember," established the group at the Los Angeles Japanese Methodist Church in 1955. At full strength it now numbers nearly 60 singers-white, Negro, Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese. Explains pert, pony-tailed Soprano Uta Shimotskuka, 23: "With a good group like this, it was easy to attract many young singers who heard that we preferred Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina and also Faure and Poulenc to the inevitable Handel and Mendelssohn...
Vancouver, B.C., Queen Elizabeth Theater: The International Festival presents the North American premiere of Giraudoux's Men, Women and Angels, with Uta Hagen...
Raisins & Technique. Under Herbert Berghof and his wife Uta Hagen-whose school is less publicized than Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, but equally esteemed by many-Irene practiced with awesome intensity. Often she phoned fellow actors and routed them out of bed to practice scenes with her at 6 a.m. She was so oblivious to everything but acting that when one fellow student brought her a bunch of white grapes, she set them on a table in her apartment, next noticed them eight months later when the friend returned and exclaimed...