Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Lortel, Lucille
2. Dalrymple, Jean
3. Wilson, Edwin, 1927-
4. City University of New York.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (112 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Four separate interviews, one with Lucille Lortel and three with Jean Dalrymple.
2. Lucille Lortel discusses how she decides which plays to produce, her association with playwright Athol Fugard, Lee Blessing's play A walk in the woods and its world-wide productions, her founding of the White Barn Theatre in Connecticut, her puchase of the Theatre de Lys and its renaming as the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the ANTA Matinee Series, and some of the many actors and playwrights who got their start at the White Barn Theatre.
3. Jean Dalrymple talks about her career, beginning as a performer in vaudeville and later as an actor, writer and producer, writing with John Golden including their play Salt water, becoming a producer and press agent, her involvement with theater in New Jersey with Cheryl Crawford and Jeff Bromberg, producing Porgy and Bess using dialogue instead of recitative, and the beginning of New York City's City Center in 1943 and her involvement with it, producing plays and musicals up until 1969.

Series statement

1. CUNY Spotlight

Subject

1. Interviews
2. Bromberg, J. Edward, 1903-1951
3. Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986
4. ANTA (Organization)
5. City Center (New York, N.Y.)
6. Television
7. Lucille Lortel Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
8. White Barn Theatre
9. Golden, John, 1874-1955 > Salt water
10. Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 > Porgy and Bess
11. Theatre de Lys
12. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
13. Fugard, Athol > Friends and associates
14. Dalrymple, Jean > Interviews
15. Lortel, Lucille > Interviews
16. ANTA Matinee Series (New York, N.Y.)
17. Blessing, Lee > Walk in the woods

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Television.

Call number

1. NCOW 97

Note

1. Part of the series, CUNY Spotlight, broadcast on CUNY-TV, sponsored by the City University of New York.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.

Title

1. [Interviews with Lucille Lortel and Jean Dalrymple] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [present]

Imprint

1. New York, 1988.

Series

1. CUNY Spotlight

Performer

1. Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.

Event

1. Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.

Added author

1. Lortel, Lucille, interviewee.
2. Dalrymple, Jean, interviewee.
3. Wilson, Edwin, 1927- interviewer.
4. City University of New York.

Research call number

1. NCOW 97