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...with a combination of gravity and comedy, dominate the first Loeb Mainstage theatrical production of the year, “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” which opens tonight and will run through Oct. 28. As a part of the Visiting Director’s Project (VDP), the play is the only Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club production this season that will not have a Harvard student at its helm. Instead, the play is being directed by Marcus Stern, the renowned associate director of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) and the A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theatre Training...
HRDC President Benjamin D. Margo ’04-’05, who is also a Crimson editor, said that past professional collaboration has resulted in better shows. He referred to the most recent VDP show, in which Marcus Stern, and ART director, directed Great God Brown...
Margo also said the closer relationships with the ART and OFA would solve problems that have plagued the VDP in the past. A lack of institutional memory has left the group scrabbling to re-establish the program every other year, he said...
...It’s a huge deal that the ART has taken this very big and specific role in helping with the VDP,” Margo said. “The project had to be reinvented every two years. It was an arduous process and a chaotic...
...VDP shows go well, Megan said, Harvard will have an easier time attracting artistic professionals in the future...