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...claims to Tacoma in exchange for 900 acres of land and a trust fund that could generate as much as $10,000 annually for every adult, plus $61 million for a salmon fishery and a marine terminal. Each adult will also receive a $20,000 cash grant. Says Frank Wright, a Puyallup administrator: "Now we have something that is ours, something we can grab...
...thus one of the plums in the American theater. Despite this, of the six men who have held it, only two have been Americans. Alvin Epstein lasted a single season before returning in 1979 to a distinguished career as a roving actor and director. The second is Garland Wright, 42, who was appointed two years ago and recently extended his contract until...
Bearded and brooding in appearance, the Texas-born Wright often looks like a villain in a Jacobean tragedy. He has directed on Broadway (Pvt. Wars), off- Broadway (Vanities), and at regional stages in Washington, Dallas, Denver and . Seattle. In style and choice of plays, he suggests no major break with the Guthrie's traditions. His major effort is to enhance the status and creative contribution of actors. He wants to shift from the present resident company of 43 to a sort of extended family of 150 or so performers who will work there often but not necessarily every year...
...most important show staged by Wright since he became artistic director, and the newest addition to the Guthrie's repertory, is a four-hour, 41-actor production of Hamlet. In it, Wright depicts a crumbling monarchy in which no one is competent to rule, so that Fortinbras' climactic coup d'etat is no tragedy but a blessed relief. Wright invigoratingly moves the action from space to starkly different space within the castle, mostly by use of lighting and a movable back wall that is by turns opaque, reflective or transparent. The first act begins with an elaborate dinner party glimpsed...
...never easy to compete with the memory of a legend, yet the revivers of Ain't Misbehavin' have set themselves that task twice over. Not only do they seek to match the exuberant spirit of Pianist-Songwriter Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, whose 1920s and '30s Harlem jazz inspired the pell-mell 31-tune revue, but they also contend with the joyous memory of the 1978 debut staging, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical, made a star of Nell Carter, and ran almost four years before becoming an Emmy-winning NBC special. Of course, the producers of this daring...