Prize-Winning Director Burt French Tops NE TC Honors
Pasadena based playwright and director Burt French has won the John Gassner Memorial award for the second year in a row, this time for the one act comedy Chowder and Cherries which tied for second prize as no first prize was awarded. The piece will be staged at the NE TC convention in Providence Rhode Island on October 13 along with two other prize winners. French previously won the National Play Search contest for Square Root of Hip and has a long career as actor director and writer across several theaters and regions. He is working on scripts for Center Stage in Baltimore and Chicago and is drafting a new three act play about the 1930s titled FDR This Is A HD.
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Cedar Rapids theater founder Burt French remembered
Cedar Rapids memory scene recalls Burt French founder director and actor of the Burt French Players and first paid director of the Community Theater. He now lives at 70 S Grand Avenue in Pasadena.
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Sutherland Opens San Francisco Opera Week With Gala
In Union Square 10600 fans welcomed Colora tura Joan Sutherland to inaugurate San Francisco Opera Weeks. She echoed 1908 memories of Luisa Tetrazzini and performed Sem pre Libera and The Last Rose of Summer with Richard Bonynge. Mayor Alioto presented her a city key. Norma next, as SF Opera begins its 50th season with 52 performances across 11 operas.
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