Description: (3) interviews done as series "Conversation" taped 1/14/1980. 1) Rev. Anthony Campbell, Eliot Church in Roxbury, interviews Boston University President John Silber. 2) Marty Linsky, Media Consultant, interviews Aln Friedberg of the National Association of Theater Owners about "Film Business"; 3) Anthony Lewis, New York Times Columnist, interviews Arie Eliav, former Knesset member, about Israel and Afghanistan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/14/1980
Description: Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by American Repertory Theater on stage at Loeb Drama Center.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/19/1980
Description: Exterior of Loeb Drama Center/American Repertory Theatre with banner for A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill. Exterior of Widener Library with snow.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/06/1984
Description: "Alive with AIDS," a theatrical presentation at Club Cabaret of personal experiences with AIDS.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/07/1989
Description: Exterior of American Repertory Theatre with JACQUES AND HIS MASTER by Milan Kundera banners. Loeb Drama Center. Snow falling and on ground.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1985
Description: Interview with Beverly Sills on experiencing prejudice as woman directing an opera company and how the world is changing to allow women more opportunities. She comments on opera as expensive art form and how she tried to make quality opera that all people could afford, and that if specific opera communities are catering to the elite, she thinks the consumer can "make a lot of noise" and help to change that. She also mentions censorship in the arts and Robert Mapplethorpe. Clips of Sills singing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/17/1991
Description: Coverage of the annual performance of Black Nativity by Langston Hughes. The performance takes place in the Opera House in Boston. Interview with Music Director John Ross, who talks about the play. He says that the story of the nativity is told in a "black context," using traditional music. Excerpts from the performance.
1:00:08: Visual: Shots of schoolchildren entering an auditorium. V: Footage from the Black Nativity performed at the Opera House in Boston. V: Footage of John A. Ross (Music Director) saying that Langston Hughes used the Bible as a source for Black Nativity; that the story is told in a "black context." Ross says that the play relies on traditional gospel music. V: Footage from the performance of Black Nativity. V: Footage of a female African American student saying that some of her friends and former teachers were in the performance. Footage of a female African American student saying that the play shows us "how God began his life." Footage of a female white students saying that the acting is good; that the play is "pretty." Footage of a group of African American students in the lobby. One student says that he likes the music. Another student says that she likes everything. V: Footage from the performance of Black Nativity.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/08/1989
Description: Theater critic Kevin Kelly interviews choreographer Bob Fosse upon pre-Broadway opening of “Big Deal” at the Shubert. Clip from musical with Loretta Devine, and film “All That Jazz.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/24/1986
Description: Stage antics of the Boston Baked Theatre, a comedy group in Somerville. Quick shot of Davis Square.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/21/1988
Description: Boston Opera.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1980