NRT Trustee Lael Tucker Wertenbaker Writer and Playwright
Lael Tucker Wertenbaker began as a playwright before becoming a writer inspired by her husband’s death. Her path shows a shift from stage to prose influenced by personal tragedy and resilience.
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NRT
Lael Tucker Wertenbaker
The Great Adventurer and The Life of Captain John Smith
A review of Paul Lewis’s The Great Adventurer traces Captain John Smith’s fame seeking exaggerations and corroborating evidence. It covers his early dangers, duels with Turks, capture, slavery, escape to Russia, and role in Jamestown, plus his later eight books and fading reputation.
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Paul Lewis
McKay
Age of Adventure
Jamestown
Smith
Russia
Rostov
Moscow
The
New World
Henry Hudson
Wertenbaker on Capote and a life in writing
Lael Tucker Wertenbaker discusses Truman Capote and non fiction versus fiction. She reflects on her career from Lament for Four Virgins to Death of a Man and her work with Time Life. She plans a move to New Hampshire and two novels while finishing a Picasso book for Time Life.
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Nevertheess
Theatre Guild
Newark
National Repertory Theatre
University of North Carolina At Greensboro
NRT
Lael Tucker Wertenbaker
UNCG
Jane
Fomt
Proust
New Hampshire
Alabama
Mrs. Wertenbaker
Time- Life
Lael Tucker
Charles Wer
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Expression As Her Novels Staff Photos Jerry Parrish
A feature highlights author Expression and photographer Jerry Parrish in a staff photo spread. The piece notes Parrish's collaboration on novels and candid images capturing writers in workshop settings.
Man of La Mancha gains overseas rivals in theater scene
New rival overseas to Kiss Me Kate My Fair Lady and Hello Dolly Man of La Mancha has rights granted for professional productions in 22 countries with more pending Spain Sweden Denmark Iceland among nations that will soon view the show about Don Quixote Germany plans 20 municipal theater presentations.
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New York
Spain
Sweden
Denmark
Iceland
Don Quixote
Germany
Concert notes feature National Ballet and orchestra in Twin City
Music notes highlight the National Ballet of Washington and the Twin City Symphony Orchestra with Daniel Ericourt as soloist at Reynolds Auditorium. Itzhak Perlman appears at Wake Forest, plus Greensboro listings for The Odd Couple and Marc Andre. The New York Philharmonic adds a female bassist, and the National Repertory Theatre plans Aycock Auditorium visits in October.
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Reynolds Auditorium
Daniel Ericourt
Twin City
John Suele
Bethoven
Dvorak
Wake Forest College
Itzhak Perlman
Wall Chapel
Greensboro
Memorial Auditorium
Guilforde
American Choreographic Co
Elliott
New York Philharmonic
Los Angeles
California
New Ae Atere Little Symphony
National Repertory Theatre
NRT
Aycock Auditorium
Noel Coward
O’neill
Biography of a Mexican Marxist Vincente Lombardo Toledano
Mary Ellison Turner portrays Vincente Lombardo Toledano as a complex figure whose evolution from activist to Marxist leader shaped Mexican labor and politics. The study, based on Robert Paul Millon’s biography, traces his education, political shifts, union organizing, and visions for a socialist democracy in Mexico.
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Chapel Hill
Vincente Lombardo Toledano
Robert Paul Millon
University of North Carolina Press
Toledano
University of Mexico
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
Aries
Millen
Millon
Lazaro Cardenas
Avante
Neo Integral Pai
Papert Ca
Partido Popular
Lombardo
Mary Ellison Turner
London casting adds familiar faces to The Odd Couple
AP reports Rex Ev and Jack Klugman will star in the London production joining the Neil Simon comedy ahead of its Queen's Theatre run. The tour includes stops in Bright on, Golders Green, Manchester and Leeds before the London bow.
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London
Rae
Rex Ev
Jack Klugman
Neil Simon
Queen’s Theater
Brighton
Golders Green
Manchester
Leeds
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