Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) announces a special presentation: A Conversation with Producers Jack W. Batman and Bruce Robert Harris on Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 3pm ET via Zoom. Tickets for this 90-minute discussion are $35, with a $10 discount TRU members. Register at truonline.org/events/a-conversation-with-producers-jack-w-batman-and-bruce-robert-harris/ to receive the Zoom link the morning of the workshop.
This informal (and virtual) Q&A provides a chance to learn everything you ve ever wanted to know about producing theater. Come meet Jack W. Batman and Bruce Robert Harris, two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producers. Since 2005, they have produced over sixty plays and musicals for Broadway, London s West End, Off-Broadway, regional theatres, and national and international tours and festivals plus many private and corporate events. Special guest speakers at TRU s January 23rd Raising Money for Theater workshop, Jack and Bruce are paying a return visit to get to know
Dr. Seuss Made World War II Cartoons That Definitely Aren t for Kids
Dr. Seuss definitely wasn t thinking about the children when he made the Private Snafu cartoons during WWII.
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Theodor Geisel wrote dozens of beloved children s books under his pen name of Dr. Seuss. The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Lorax are just the highlights from a collection that has remained popular for several generations.
Many people don t realize that the good doctor had a long and successful career as a commercial illustrator and political cartoonist before he became famous for his kids literature. The Dartmouth College grad was approaching 40 when he joined the U.S. Army in 1943. He was put in command of the animation department of the 1st Motion Picture Unit, which was created out of the Army Signal Corps.
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During summertime in cities and towns across the U.S., movies are screened outdoors. Scheduled for showing during the summer of 2016 at New York City’s Bryant Park Film Festival was a 1950 Academy Award-winning comedy based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play – Harvey, starring James Stewart in what was said to be his favorite role. The film is popular on DVD and is often aired on cable’s Turner Classic Movies station. The play is one of the most frequently produced by amateurs and professional players in the history of the American theater. It has been published in nearly every language and performed in nearly every country. James Stewart himself, after subbing for the original Broadway star Frank Fay during Fay’s vacation break, appeared on Broadway in a revival in the 1970s, took the show to London, then did it on television. It was revived again on Broadway in 2012 with Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.
5 episodes in which Rochester gets the best of his boss on The Jack Benny Show Gwen Ihnat look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored episode. Alternately, they can offer up recommendations inspired by a theme. In this installment: In honor of Black History Month, we’re spotlighting five episodes of The Jack Benny Show
that featured Eddie “Rochester” Anderson.
There were Black characters on the air during the early days of radio, as the first mass broadcasting medium swept the country in the 1930s, though many of them were portrayed by white actors in what amounts to aural blackface. The most famous example was the popular program
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