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Clurman, Harold Edgar
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Clurman, Harold Edgar (1901–80), American director and critic, who made his first contact with the American theatre through the
Provincetown Players in 1924 and a year later joined the
Theatre Guild. In 1931 he co-founded the
Group Theatre, directing his first play on Broadway for them—
Odets's Awake and Sing (1935). He later directed Odets's other full-length plays for the Group, of which in 1936 he assumed sole management. After it disbanded in 1940 he directed a number of important new plays for other managements, including Carson McCullers's
The Member of the Wedding (1950), William
Inge's Bus Stop (1955),
Anouilh's Waltz of the Toreadors (1957), O'Neill's
A Touch of the Poet (1958), and Arthur
Miller's Incident at Vichy (1964). He also directed abroad, including
Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates in London (1955).
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Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre.
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 1/1/1994; ; 610 words
; ...fascinating as those who put them there. Harold Clurman--director, producer, author...this most emphatically applies. Clurman was one of the driving forces...of the Group Theatre in 1941, Clurman remained a force on and off Broadway...
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Festival watch.(Hoboken's Vintage Baseball Festival in New Jersey)(Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts in New York)(Berkeley Repertory Theatre host theater festival)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 5/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...influential the director and critic Harold Clurman was, hop on over to the first-ever Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts, May 5...s solo play, Let It Be Art! Harold Clurman's Life of Passion. Readings...
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Ekkehard Schall. (Harold Clurman Theatre, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 3/16/1985; ; 700+ words
; ...humanity/Terrible/Evil/Insensitive." I tell you, it's frightening to see. Schall's performance at the Harold Clurman Theatre consists of two separate evenings. I was glad to attend evening number one but by evening number two I was...
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A Kurt Weill cabaret. (Harold Clurman Theatre, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 1/19/1985; ; 640 words
; ...if anyone's noticing. I thought of this watching Martha Schlamme present her evening of Kurt Weill at the tiny Harold Clurman Theatre. Schlamme has been singing Weill for years. Not long ago she was doing it with Eric Bentley. Currently...
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Nijinsky Speaks.(Harold Clurman Theater, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: The New Leader; 10/5/1998; ; 700+ words
; The Academy and the cancer wardshare many of the same terms: "exam," "study," "test results," "research," "analysis," "course." Yet as playwright Margaret Edson demonstrates in her new drama, Wit, context is everything. In one arena the words concern illumination and explication; in another, they
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Ulysses in Nighttown. (Harold Clurman Theatre, New York)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 2/20/1989; ; 700+ words
; The moment of Modernism (1914-1924) bypassed the theater much as a major highway ma circle round a city, partly from a regard for tradition (so much real estate would have to be demolished), partly from its own priority of moving at top speed. Theater, as much as quilting, is a traditional art. Its
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Cold Calling; Theater review: Death of a Salesman, Harold Clurman Theatre
Newspaper article from: Seven Days; 7/13/2005; ; 700+ words
; You might question the prudence of heralding the birth of a new theater space with a play about death. But given the longevity of Death of a Salesman, which debuted in 1949, the choice may not be such a gamble. The late Arthur Miller's drama about an aging traveling salesman with a serious case of
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Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 5/20/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...1970s when she found Harold Clurman's The Fervent Years...before it's over. Harold had two reasons. One...t need to hear that Clurman walked out at intermission...500 shows I saw with Harold, I remember talking...
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Play gets world premiere at NIU
Newspaper article from: Courier News (Elgin, IL); 2/8/2004; ; 631 words
; ...adds. The Group grew out of talks Harold Clurman held in 1930, every Friday night...It would be said later that Clurman talked The Group Theatre into existence...explains that in the summer of 1931, Clurman, Lee Strasberg, and Cheryl Crawford...
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WHEN SOCIAL PASSION WALKED THE BOARDS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/25/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...have been its members' memoirs -- most notably, Harold Clurman's classic but subjective account, "The Fervent...unsurprising dissolution 10 years later. The brainchild of Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, the original idea for the Group...
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Harold Clurman
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Harold Clurman , 1901-80, American director, manager, critic, and author, b...Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and William Inge, among many others. Clurman has written much theater criticism and several books, including The Fervent...
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Clurman, Harold (Edgar)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Clurman, Harold [Edgar] (1901–80), director and critic. Born in New...as co‐producing All My Sons (1947). From 1949 to 1953 Clurman served as drama critic for the New Republic and then for many years in...
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Clurman, Harold Edgar
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Clurman, Harold Edgar (1901–80), American director and critic, who made his first contact with the American theatre through the...
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Lee Strasberg
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Theatre Guild that Strasberg met Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, two young...the leadership of Strasberg, Clurman, and Crawford, the Group attempted...The Fervent Years (1957), Harold Clurman described Strasberg as "one of...
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Group Theatre
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...formed in New York City in 1931 by Harold Clurman , Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg...all by Clifford Odets . In 1937, Clurman became sole director. Although...directors. Bibliography: See H. Clurman, The Fervent Years (1945).
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