Comedy Tragedy I by Shaw at Stratford Festival
Stratford Festival in Connecticut unveils a three play program for 16th season from June 16 to Sept 6 featuring All's Well That Ends Well Othello and Shaw's The Devil's Disciple Joseph Verner Reed executive producer Michael Kahn artistic director directs All's Well and Othello Cyril Ritchard returns as director and lead in The Devil's Disciple Eva Le Gallienne makes rare Stratford appearance as the countess in All's Well Moses Gunn debuts as Othello Lee Richardson debuts as Iago and Anderson in The Devil's Disciple Roberta Maxwell returns as Helena and Desdemona with veterans Maher Miner and Sommer in leading roles.
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Shakespeare
Shaw
American Shakespeare Festival Theatre
Stratford, Conn
Joseph Verner Reed
Michael Kahn
Kahn
Stratford
Cyril Ritchard
Devil’s Disciple
Gen. Burgoyne
Ritchard
Bottom
Oberon
Rosalinda
Miss LeGallienne
Eva LeGallienne
Westport
Apa-Phoenix
Ionesco
Chekov
Moses Gunn
Stratsford
Earl Hyman
Gunn
New York
Negro Ensemble Company
Kangi
Harvest
Daddy Goodness
Kaban
Titus Andronicus
New York Shakespeare Festival
Lee Richardson
Minnesota Theatre Company
Arturo Us
Iago
Anderson
Roberta Maxivell
Helena
Desdemona
Katharine
Hero
Anta Theatre
Joseph Maher
Jan Miner
Josef Sommer
Free Boston Ballet Concert Comes to Taconic High March 7
The Boston Ballet's Peter and the Wolf, part of the Berkshire Regional Educational Theatre program, performs free at Taconic High School on Saturday March 7 at 2 30 p.m. Berkshire Community College president Thomas E O Connell will narrate alongside Pittsfield puppeteer Stanley Roseman. Two casts tour Berkshire County Feb 23 through March 13 to present to about 65 schools. Tickets are free via the BRET office at 48 Eagle St or by phone reservation.
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Boston Ballet Company
Peter and the Wolf
Berkshire
Taconic High School
O'Connell
Berkshire Community College
Thomas E. O'Connell
Pittsfield
Stanley Roseman
Stanley
Boston Ballet
BRET
Savoy Theatre
Boston
Samuel Kurkjian
Robert di Mora
Jack Watson
Williams College Theatre Department
Eagle St
Telephionc
Tangles of History and Music Near Misses
A cascade of anecdotes links dates and figures from 1492 to Beethoven, showing how plans falter and careers pivot under pressure. The piece threads Bourbons, Burns, Mozart, Beethoven, and emergency replacements like Toscanini, Bernstein, and Jo Hansen into a meditation on chance, timing, and human fallibility in art and travel.
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Bobby Burns
Mozart
Napoleon
Wellington
Beethoven
Dickens
Thackeray
Lincoln
Darwin
Holmes
Chopin
Mendelssohn
Schumann
Liszt
Verdi
Wagner
Beaumarchais
Stately Ship of Publishing Sails Through Wild New Oceans
A 1910 New York Times service overview of sweeping changes in publishing. Editors move between houses as giants merge, executives seek stock options, and authors switch firms. Hernan Wouk sells two war novels for undisclosed sums. Random House autonomy cited. Atheneum and others note industry shakeup.
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New York
Roger W Straus Jr
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Hernan Wouk
Doubleday
Lia, Brown & Co
Alfred A. Knopf
Cass Canfield
Bennett Cerf
Max Schuster
Random House
Radio Corp. of America
Robert Bernstein
Simon Michael Bessie
Atheneum
Maine
Berkshire Ballet to Be Appraised by Nault in Pittsfield
Fernand Nault, adjudicator for the Northeast Regional Ballet Association based in Toronto, will visit Pittsfield Monday to observe Berkshire Civic Ballet. He will judge three original ballets by Madeline Canterella Culpo and Don English on stage at South Junior High School with full costuming and makeup.
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Fernand Nault
Northeast Regional Ballet Association
Toronto
Canada
Pittsfield
Berkshire Civic Ballet
Nault
National Ballet Company of Canada
Berkshire Ballet
Madeline Canterella Culpo
Don English
Syracuse
N.Y
BSO Creates 750000 Munch Concertmaster Chair
The Boston Symphony endows the Charles Munch concertmaster chair with 750000, honoring the late conductor and funded by Henry B. Cabot Henry A. Laughlin and Edward A. Taft. Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein currently holds the post. An anonymous donor adds 100000 for a Walter Piston flute chair.
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Boston
Boston Symphony
Charles Munch
Henry B. Cabot
Henry A. Laugh
Philip R. Allen
Burton Fine
Jules Eskin
Loren and Mastroianni Star in The Priests Wife
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni will headline Warner Bros film The Priests Wife to be produced by Carly Ponti. The project is among 10 features Warner plans to begin within six months as Ted Ashley leads a slate of at least 36 developing projects after Warner became part of Kinney National Service Inc.
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Hollywood
Sophia Loren
Marcella Mastroianni
Warner Bros
Carly Ponti
Warner Board
Ted Ashley
Warners
Kinnay National Service, Inc
Movie Timetable Capitals and Local Theaters
Capitol presents The Mad Woman of Chaillot with 8:00 night shows and 2:00 matinees on Wednesday Friday Saturday Sunday. Palace offers IDS Dalmatians cartoons with 1:30 3:35 shows and listed times 5240 7350. Showcase shows The Arrangement at 6:30 and 8:50 with matinees Wednesday Saturday Sunday at 2 09. Paris presents Cactus Flower with matinee 2 00 and evening shows 7:00 7:40 9:30 through Thursday. Hickory Film Club screens The Battle of Algiers at Stockbridge and West Springfield Cinema 1 shows Paint Your Wagon at 2:19 and 8:15, The Magic Christmas? matinees and evenings. Cinema 3 runs Goodbye Mr Chips at 2:00 and 3:00.
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West Springfield
Mr. Chips
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