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...RADCLIFFE-HARVARD Dance Workshop has several unique aspects. It provides the only performing art at the University whose works are created from the bottom up by students (no Shakespeare scripts, no Mozart scores); it is one of the very few organizations which has maintained its roots in the Radcliffe community; and it is the only creative art here which has a woman, Claire Mallardi, as its director...
...moviehouse on St. Valentine's Day, 1953. The Brattle had just closed as a legitimate stage: Halliday had been general manager of the Brattle Theater Company's final season, and Harvey had been connected with it a few years earlier when it was part of the Harvard Theater Workshop...
...Family who is not an ex-convict, is a veteran actor who grew up in the Newark ghetto, where "I spent my life avoiding situations that would get me into prison." In 1971 Camillo did go to Sing Sing, however, to help with a prisoners' theater workshop. A year later he opened his own workshop at the nearby Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, beginning with a group of six men that quickly grew...
...prisoners in the workshop, theater provided a purpose and a commitment that they had not known before. "When you're in prison, you're nowhere being nobody," says Piñero. "You're a number. Writing and acting made me somebody in the land of nothing." When a member of the Bedford group suggested that the workshop might continue on the outside, Camillo agreed to try. Beginning in March of 1973, as one by one the men began to be released, Camillo met them at the gate, and The Family was born. Since then they have performed...
Dellinger, a former advertising man, began the class in 1972 while serving a 17-month term for attempted extortion. Prison authorities, hesitant at first, became so enthusiastic about the workshop that they let Dellinger continue it after his parole. He gets some help from such guests as TV Writer-Producer Rod Serling and Joseph Wambaugh, Los Angeles literary policeman (who last week quit the force to write full time). During his visit, Wambaugh offered Bonanno a cop's role on his TV show Police Story. Bonanno said thanks, but no, "I haven't been that rehabilitated...