ARCHIVE IV--EVENTS AND APPEARANCES
Special
Events/Releases
2007
- 20 Dec. Brian Dennehy
at Chicago Art Institute will be discussing what has made the plays of
Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller so powerful and essential to our lives
as well as the state of contemporary theater. 6-7 p.m. in
Fullerton Hall. Members and Students with ID: $10, Public: $15.
Reservations: Suggested. Event Code: EAIJ1220.
- The Crucible
is Mayor Richard Daley’s selection for Chicago's “One Book, One
Chicago” program during the 2007-2008 academic year.
- For those interested in the Monroe angle—a portrait of Miller
features in the play, “Here I Am Mother,” the
Real Story of Marilyn Monroe, penned by Monroe’s self-announced
daughter, Nancy Miracle/Nancy Maniscalco. There have been
some readings of this piece thus far, and there may be a
production soon in Bulgaria. Copies are available through Nancy's website.
- Inner
Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005, by J. M. Coetzee. Random
House, Australia, 2007. ISBN 9781 74166 8353. RRP $39.95, contains an
essay on the screenplay for the film, The Misfits.
- Sept. 4 to Dec. 30, 2007. Exhibition at University of
Texas at Austin: Rehearsing
the American
Dream: Arthur Miller's Critical Theater can be seen in the
Ransom Center Galleries on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m., with extended Thursday hours to 7 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays
the galleries are open from noon to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed on
Mondays. Curated by Charlotte Canning. The exhibition uses
Miller's
plays to
explore conscience in its theatrical expression: as an intertwined and
interdependent political and emotional life. Check the Harry
Ransom Center's website
for more details. Harry Ransom Center Contacts: Jennifer Tisdale;
e-mail: jentisdale@mail.utexas.edu; phone: 512-471-8949 or Alicia
Dietrich; e-mail: aliciadietrich@mail.utexas.edu; phone:
512-232-3667. Or by regular mail: Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center, P.O. Drawer 7219, Austin, Texas 78713-7219. For
more information phone: 512-471-8944; or fax: 512-471-9646.
- More events related to the above exhibit for which seating is
free, but limited (there is also a local production by City Theatre of Death of a Salesman--see
performance section above)
Harry
Ransom Center
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 7 p.m.
Charlotte Canning and Lucien Douglas from the Department of Theatre and
Dance at The University of Texas at Austin weave together critical
commentary and scenes from the plays of Arthur Miller in “Up Against
the American Dream.”
This 90-minute presentation includes performances of scenes from
Miller's works, including All My
Sons, The Crucible, View from the Bridge, After the Fall, The
Archbishop’s Ceiling, and American Clock. The event features
visual and audio resources to address themes that run throughout
Miller's work: history, tragedy, family, nation, politics, and
philosophy.
Up
Against the American Dream
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2 p.m.
David Savran, Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the CUNY Graduate
Center, presents “Arthur Miller and the Broadway Canon.” Despite the
money and celebrity that has surrounded Broadway for the last 100
years, the commercial New York theater has served as a forum for what
is now deemed serious drama for less than half of that period. Indeed,
the group of great playwrights who had their work routinely performed
on Broadway is a small one, beginning with Eugene O'Neill in 1920 and
ending with Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller in the early 1960s.
This talk addresses the construction of the canonical, Pulitzer
Prize-winning Broadway play with a focus on Arthur Miller's work in an
attempt to discern Miller's unique position in the history of the
commercial theater.
- Susan Abbotson's Critical Companion to
Arthur Miller, an encyclopedic guide to the man and his work
came out on June 30th, 2007 from Facts on File. Get more
detail
from their website, (search on Abbotson).
- New collection of essays on Miller edited by Paula Langteau now
available from University Press of America, and at a
mere $25 well
within most people’s book budget. It is titled Miller and
Middle America: Essays on Arthur Miller and the American
Experience.
Go to the UP of America website
and type in Langteau under author for more details (this includes brief
reviews of the book).
- Arthur Miller died on Feb. 10, 2005 -- the same day (56 years
earlier) that Death
of a
Salesman opened on Broadway. Playwright and professor Frank
Gagliano has presented his tribute, "Why I Broke Down When Arthur
Miller Died," three times. Now the complete tribute is at the "articles
and essays" link on Gagliano's new Web site, www.gaglianoriff.com, "the
personal chronicle of a life in American Theatre: from the glory days
of the Off-Broadway movement, to theatre's present decline and towards
its
uncertain future."
- Hungarian Journal of English
and American Studies
has a special Arthur Miller Edition: Volume 11, Number 2 (2005):
ISSN: 12
18-7364. It contains several new essays on Miller's work.
This journal is published twice a year by the Institute of English and
American Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary. HJEAS is available
through
subscription. A year's subscription (2 issues) is $40 or €30 postpaid.
Individual
issues are $25 or €17 postpaid. To subscribe send a personal check
made payable to "University of Debrecen," mail to HJEAS, Institute of
English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, 4010 Debrecen Pf.
73,
Hungary. Or check their website.
Special
Events/Releases
2006
Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies has
a special
Arthur Miller Edition: Volume 11, Number 2 (2005): ISSN: 12
18-7364. It contains several new essays on Miller's work.
This
journal is published twice a year by the Institute of English and
American
Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary. HJEAS is available through
subscription.
A year's subscription (2 issues) is $40 or €30 postpaid. Individual
issues are $25 or €17 postpaid. To subscribe send a personal check
made payable to "University of Debrecen," mail to HJEAS,
Institute
of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, 4010 Debrecen
Pf. 73, Hungary. Or check their website.
"Great Literature of All Times" — Oro Valley Public Library, Tucson, AZ
in the library meeting room at 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Bill Fry will
discuss
Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible." 10 a.m.-noon Nov. 16. Free.
229-5300.
The American Association of University Women will read "The Crucible"
by
Arthur Miller on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006 at 1:30 p.m. in the Flett
Room
of the Belmont Public Library. The Read Aloud will be led by
Janet
Khattab and Dolores Murphy, both from Belmont. AAUW members and guests
are invited to read parts of the play or just listen and enjoy. No
preparation
is required. The public is welcome. The event is free of charge. The
next
monthly reading will be on Tuesday, Oct. 31 at the Burlington Library.
The selected reading will be "Death of a Salesman." For more
information,
contact Liz Blumenthal at 781-641-5159.
Through September 15, 2006, the Museum of the City of New York presents
the exhibit New York Creative: Portraits by Everett Raymond Kinstler,
which
focuses on his interpretations of celebrated figures from the world of
arts & letters in New York. Fifty oil paintings, watercolors,
pastels,
and charcoal sketches of such cultural luminaries as artists Will
Barnet
and Jacob Lawrence, writers Tom Wolfe and Arthur Miller, and performers
Tony Bennett and Paul Newman will be on view.
Westport Country Playhouse Sunday Symposium discussed "Arthur Miller:
Artists’
Struggle in the Face of Repressive Government Censorship" on Sunday,
Aug.
27, 2006, following the 3 p.m. performance. The symposium is free
and open to the public. Guest speakers will be Brenda Murphy,
professor
of English at the University of Connecticut, and Roya Hakakian, author
and filmmaker.
Awake & Singing: New Edition, edited and annotated by
Ellen
Schiff and published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2004 has
added
Broken
Glass to its playlist. The plays in the collection have been
chosen, as Schiff explains, because "they bring to life before our eyes
many of the seminal events that shaped the American Jewish experience
through
the last century: immigration, family life and generational conflicts,
the Great Depression, "making it" in America, encounters with
anti-Semitism,
the Triangle Fire, assimilation, two world wars, the Holocaust and
Israel
nationhood."
"Birth of a Playwright: Arthur Miller at Michigan." The
project
revolves around Miller, how and why he chose University of Michigan and
the development of his craft while at the University. Produced by Chris
Cook for U-M TV2. WFUM-TV: http://www.wfum.org U-M TV2:
http://www.michiganchannel.org
All My Sons 30 July, 2006, a reading in honor of Israel
Horovitz
performed by Peter Boyle, Lucy Boyle, Alice Duffy, Joe Pacheco, Melinda
Lopez, and Richard McElvain (Boyle was sick and his role was taken by
Klein
on the day of performance).
7 June, 2006, Prague. The 16th Prague Writers' Festival was
dedicated
to Miller whose quotation "There Is No Life Without Ideals" was adopted
for this year’s festival motto.
Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk will deliver the inaugural Arthur Miller
Freedom
to Write Lecture at the PEN World Voices Festival on its opening night,
Tuesday, April 25, 2006.
"The Arthur Miller Project" April 6-9 2006 in The Old Science Hall Lab
Theatre at Oklahoma University, Norman, OK. This is an original
script
written by Oklahoma University graduate student Jason Gerace to honor
the
playwright. It is made up entirely of the playwright’s works,
including
his essays, speeches and his autobiography, as well as scenes from his
plays. Gerace emphasizes the playwright's thoughts on the nature of
tragedy,
organized by four themes: fear, man in society, name and death — all of
which are used to connect the piece in its entirety. Performed by
Rachel
Kerbs, Matthew Altobelli, Travis McElroy, Matt Carpenter, and Meghan
Caves.
Performances at 8 p.m. Thurs- Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets
are $8 for adults, faculty, staff and senior adults and $6 for students.
17 March, 2006: "The Works of Arthur Miller." Tony Kushner in
conversation
with Michael Krasny. 6:30 p.m. at Berkeley Repertory Theater, 2025
Addison
St., Berkeley. Tickets are free with the purchase of ``Arthur Miller:
Selected
Plays, 1944-1961'' at Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley, or
$15
at the door if any tickets still available. (510) 845-7852.
15th March, 2006: Tony Kushner and Robert Brustein in a multimedia
celebration
of the publication of ''Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961"
(Library
of America). In addition to discussing Miller's plays, the
evening
will feature a screening of The Misfits. Wednesday, at 6 p.m., at
the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at
Harvard Book Store. Or get two free tickets when you buy the book for
$35,
with all proceeds benefiting the embattled Brattle. Call 617-661-1515.
February 2006, Films Media Group releases The Drama of Creation,
Writers
on Writing, a 46 minute documentary on playwrights which includes
new
interviews with Miller alongside other dramatists including August
Wilson,
Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein, Tina Howe, Terrance McNally, Neil
Simon
and Edward Albee who talk about their writing techniques and
inspirations.
Their press releases talks about Miller’s disclosure about how he wrote
the concept for Death of a Salesman during his college days in
Brooklyn
and had forgotten about the manuscript until years later. We can assume
they are talking about the short story "In Memoriam." Content for the
documentary
is the culmination of two decades of interviews with featured
playwrights,
compiled by the Media Resources Center of Wichita State University
under
the leadership of executive director Michael Wood. FMG currently
has 2,000 titles available digitally through its FMG On Demand service
launched in September. With 200 new titles being added each month, this
collection includes many exclusive offerings from leading producers and
broadcasters including PBS, BBC and ABC News as well as original
content
produced by FMG. The Drama of Creation, Writers on Writing is a
product of FMG’s Films for the Humanities & Sciences brand,
tailored
specifically for advanced level high school and college students. For
reviewers,
if you would like to receive a complimentary DVD or VHS review copy of
The
Drama of Writers, Writers on Writing or speak to the FMG producers
responsible for its creation, please contact John Hartnett at (609)
671-5716.
A transcript is also available on request. For a preview of the
film
or for information, visit website.
To watch the entire movie online:
then type the word "review" in the playlist code box and select "Go."
Click
the "Play" button in the lower left-hand corner underneath the black
screen.
This free, full-length feature is for private use only, not for
broadcast,
and will expire at midnight on March 17, 2006. They welcome your review
of this film.
Christopher Bigsby will be participating in a panel discussion on the
works
of Miller at the Theatre Museum, London, on March 5th 2006, as part of
events surrounding the Scott Davison production of Two Way Mirror.
Tribute to Miller: Feb. 10th 2006. Actors Eli Wallach, Marian
Seldes
and Frances Sternhagen will be among the readers next week at a tribute
to Arthur Miller, whose collected works are being published by the
Library
of America. The readings are to take place Friday, Feb. 10th
2006,
the first anniversary of Miller's death, at St. Bartholomew's Church in
midtown Manhattan. The event, for which admission is free, is sponsored
by TIPA (Toward International Peace Through the Arts), a nonprofit
organization.
Miller's sister, Joan Copeland, will also appear at the reading.
From January to March 2006, the multi-award-winning Octagon Theatre,
Bolton
(UK), presents Miller at the Octagon, a short series of two plays
celebrating
the work of one of the twentieth century’s great playwrights, Arthur
Miller
- A View From The Bridge (26 Jan - 25 Feb 06) and Broken
Glass
(2 - 25 Mar 06). Details on both productions are included above.
A voluminous collection of essays has just been published in India
under
the title, Arthur Miller: Twentieth Century Legend.
Several
society members contributed essays and it has been published by Surabhi
Publications. Edited by Dr. M. A. Syed, it totals 408 pages and
costs
the equivalent of $18 in India. Write to Mr. Suresh, Surabhi
Publications,
Rasta Sanghiji, S M S Highway, Jaipur- 302 003, Rajasthan, for more
information.
Westport Arts Center's "Play With Your Food", a lunch hour (and a half)
theater/lunch/socializing series. Toquet Hall, Westport, CT has
scheduled
an exciting series of new plays, including plays by Arthur Miller. But
these are lesser-known works, according to Schweid, including some
"hidden
jewels" of Miller's that no one knows he wrote. Uncertain
when—sometime
in 2006.
Feb. 4th, 2006: Delaware Theatre Company (Wilmington, DE) has started a
new series of audience enrichment events called "Connections." These
are
free forums that they offer periodically throughout ourseason that take
a look at issues raised in the plays and try to connect them to a
broader
realm of experiences. In "connection" with their production of The
Price
(25 Jan. -12 Feb.) and in commemoration of Miller's passing, they will
present a retrospective of Miller's life as dramatist, novelist,
political
figure, and celebrity. Guests, including director Gerald Freeman and
theater
scholar Steve Centola, will place Miller's works in their appropriate
historic
and literary contexts. Actors will illuminate the scholarly discourse
by
reading selections from Miller's works. This event will be held on
Saturday,
February 4, 2006. This event is free and will begin around 4.30
pm.,
and is partly funded by Delaware Humanities Forum. Box office
(302)
594-1100 and check website
for more details.
BERKELEY'S Aurora Theatre Company in CA dedicates its new season to
the memory of playwright Arthur Miller. The season opens in
September
2005 with a production of The Price.
Special
Events/Miller's
Last Appearances 2000-2005
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The inaugural Anne Frank Human Writes Award for 2005 has been
posthumously
awarded to Arthur Miller.
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Old BBC Radio four interview with Jonathan Miller in which Miller
discusses
his detachment from a religious belief. It will be re-aired on
Mon 28th
February 2005 7.30 US time (Tues Mar.1st 12.30-1 am UK time).
Check
link for details.
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Bob Balaban, Joan Copeland, Bob Dishy, Anne Jackson, Laila Robins,
Marian
Seldes, and Eli Wallach will participate in The Writings of Arthur
Miller:
A 90th Birthday Celebration on Monday, October 17 2005 at 12:30pm. The
event, which is part of the Food for Thought series, will take place at
the Players Club (16 Gramercy Park South). In addition to
readings
from the late playwright's works, Copeland will share stories about her
brother and read a letter that Miller sent to the House Un-American
Activities
Committee. Wallach will introduce a short film written by Miller and
shot
at his home in Connecticut. Tickets to the event are $55 for
subscribers
and $65 for non-subscribers; it includes lunch, the reading, a Q&A
session, and a reception with wine and cake. For reservations, call
212-362-2560
or 646-366-9340.
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The naming ceremony for the Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Drama Center and
Arthur
Miller Theatre at the University of Michigan is scheduled for Friday
October
14th 2005 at 10 am in Rackham Auditorium.
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Sense of Urgency Theatre presents scenes from the plays of Arthur
Miller
in It's Miller Time. At 7 p.m. this Tuesday 23rd Aug. and Sept. 6; 2
p.m.
Sept. 10 2005 at the Oak Park Library, 834 Lake, Oak Park, Chicago.
Admission
is free. Call (708) 267-9845.
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John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY will be holding a
tribute
to Arthur Miller with Joan Copeland, Paul Hecht, Hal Robinson, and
Martin
Gottfried on Sept. 4 2005.
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Author Enoch Brater discusses the book "Arthur Miller's America:
Theater
and Culture in a Time of Change" at 4 p.m. Jan. 27 2005 at Shaman
Drum
Bookshop, 311-315 S. State St. Free. Information: (734)
662-7407.
"Arthur Miller's America" collects new writings by leading
international
critics and scholars that consider the dramatic world of icon, activist
and playwright Arthur Miller's theater as it reflects the changing
moral
equations of his time. Written on the occasion of Miller's 85th year,
the
original essays and interviews in "Arthur Miller's America" treat the
breadth
of Miller's work, including his early political writings for the campus
newspaper at the University of Michigan, his famous work with John
Huston,
Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe on "The Misfits," and his signature
plays
like "Death of a Salesman" and "All My Sons."
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Film Department presents
two screenings
of films written by Miller including The Misfits, the 1961 film
featuring
Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, at 7 p.m. on Monday,
February 7 2005. The 1985 film version of Miller’s play Death of
a Salesman featuring Dustin Hoffman will be shown at 7 p.m. Monday,
February
21. Both screenings take place in the Museum’s Brown Auditorium
and
will include a pre-show introduction by Alley Artistic Director Gregory
Boyd. The public is invited to attend a reception prior to each
screening
from 5:30-6 p.m. General admission is $6. MFAH members,
senior
adults (55+), and students with ID receive a $1 discount. Children five
and under are admitted free. For more information, contact the
MFAH
Film Department at 713/639-7531 or visit www.mfah.org.
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The Jung Center of Houston is offering a seven-week companion
course
to
Alley Theater's 2005 Miller productions entitled, "The Jung Center Goes
to the Alley: Two Plays by Arthur Miller." Scheduled for every
Thursday
between January 27 through March 10, classes include background
lectures,
group attendance, and post-show discussions led by Alley Teaching
Artist
Jere Pfister. The cost is $135 or $120 for Jung Center
members.
For more information, contact the Jung Center at 713/524-8253 or visit
www.cgjunghouston.org.
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The Holocaust Museum Houston hosts a panel of local
scholars who
will discuss "Trial by Conscience in Arthur Miller’s After the Fall" at
7:30 p.m. Monday, January 10 2005 at the Museum’s location at 5401
Caroline
Street. The event is free and open to the public. For more
information, call the Holocaust Museum Houston at 713/942-8000 or visit
www.hmh.org
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Film series at Bank Street Theater to aid Our Towns
project.
Our Towns for Sar-E-Pol, a non-partisan, humanitarian effort by towns
in
the Litchfield Hills to raise funds to help the women and children in
war-torn
Afghanistan, is hosting a film forum series at Bank Street Theater in
New
Milford. The series, which began Oct. 3, features a varietyof
films
that will be personally introduced by a local resident associated with
the making of the film. Residents include Arthur Miller, Milos Forman,
Frank McCourt, Tom Cole and Joyce Chopra. The schedule will
feature
“Smooth Talk” Jan. 16, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” Feb. 20 and
“Angela’s
Ashes” March 20. All movies will be shown Sundays at 3 p.m.
The film forum series was conceived by Our Towns for Sar-E-Pol members
Ann Nevel and Kathy Van Hemert, co-owners of The Firehouse, Clothing
&
Home on Bank Street in New Milford. Richard Freedman, owner of
the
theater, is donating one theater for each viewing.
For more information and tickets, call (860) 210-1518.
- "Michigan on Broadway: A Tribute to Arthur Miller" on
November 15th,
2004 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway at 8pm with Hunter
Foster,
Jennifer Laura Thompson, Gavin Creel and Barrett Foa to celebrate the
naming
of the world's only Arthur Miller Theatre which will be built at
University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, groundbreaking is set for 2005.
Tickets
(which are open to the public) are available by calling (734) 763-0529)
or through www.music.umich.edu.
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Under a Colour Cap, a documentary by Shivaun O'Casey,
the
daughter of playwright Sean O'Casey, premiered at the Stranger
Than
Fiction docu-mentary festival 3rd Oct. 2004. Although its focus
is
her father’s life to illustrate his free-thinking attitude how his
views
remain relevant to today's world, it includes interviews with
Harold
Macmillan and Arthur Miller.
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The late actor, director and teacher Stella Adler will be celebrated
Nov.
8 in Stella By Starlight, a gale fete and awards ceremony in the Pierre
Hotel's Grand Ball Room. Awards will be presented to playwrights
Tony Kushner and Arthur Miller and, posthumously, to actor Marlon
Brando.
Zoe Caldwell will present Miller with The Group Theater Award for
"prolific
achievement in theatre, film, television arts and for community and
social
commitment." Stella By Starlight is set to begin with cocktails
at
6:30 PM, followed by the "Salute to Musical Theatre." Dinner is
scheduled
for 8 PM with the award presentations and special tributes at 9:15
PM.
Individual tickets to the one-night-only event are priced at $1,000.
Tables
of ten range from $5,000-$25,000; call Scott Perrin at (212) 838-2660,
ext. 22. **Miller was unable to attend this event due to a bout
of
pneumonia, but sent his daughter Rebecca to collect the award. **
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As the winner of the Tulsa Library Trust's 2004 Peggy V. Helmerich
Distinguished
Author Award, Miller will receive the award at a black-tie dinner in
Tulsa
City-County Library’s Central Library on Dec. 3. He will give a free
public
presentation at Central Library on Dec. 4.
The award consists of a $25,000 cash prize and an
engraved crystal book. The Tulsa Library Trust gives the award annually
to an internationally acclaimed author who has written a distinguished
body of work and made a major contribution to the field of literature
and
letters. For more information about the Peggy V. Helmerich
Distinguished
Author Award, call Larry Bartley, Tulsa Library Trust manager, at (918)
596-7985.
- Mr. Miller was present at the ninth Arthur Miller Society
International
conference at St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY on April 23-24, 2004.
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As part of "Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan in 18 Films" which
runs
through March 11 at the Museum of Modern Art at the Gramercy Theater,
127
East 23rd Street, Manhattan, NY; they're showing the 1962 classic, A
View
from the Bridge with Raf Vallone, Maureen Stapleton and Carol Lawrence
on Tues. March 2nd at 8pm. Call (212) 777-4900. Tickets: $6; free for
members
and children under 16 accompanied by an adult.
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Arthur Miller spoke to the Philomathean Society, a literary society, at
Zellerbach Theatre, at University of Pennsylvania on April 7. He read
from
his essay On Politics and the Art of Acting and answered audience
questions
following his lecture. Please consult their website
for more specifics about this lecture. Philo also hosted a series of
events
during the week of Miller's speech, including a lecture, roundtable
discussion
and dramatic reading of one of his plays. A playwriting workshop took
place
after Miller's speech. Complimentary tickets were available to students
in an online lottery.
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Arthur Miller visited the University of Michigan on April 1 for a rare
discussion of his works at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. The
discussion,
from 10-11:30 a.m., highlighted this year's Arthur Miller Symposium,
sponsored
by the U-M School of Music (NB This was sold out). The discussion
was facilitated by Lamos and Enoch Brater, professor of English.
The symposium was held in conjunction with "An
Arthur
Miller Celebration," a collection of excerpts from Miller's plays
presented
by the Department of Theatre and Drama from April 2-11 at the Trueblood
Theatre.
Miller attended the show's final dress rehearsal
April 1, which was closed to the public.
Tickets for "An Arthur Miller Celebration" were
also on sale, priced at $15, or $8 for students, at the league ticket
office.
The production, directed by Mark Lamos and student directors, pulled
scenes
from well-known and rarely performed plays in combination with excerpts
from Miller's 1987 autobiography, "Timebends." FYI: Plans
are
still being developed for the Arthur Miller Theater, to be located on
the
U-M's North Campus, possibly next to Pierpont Commons on Murfin Street.
The theater was first proposed in 1997, and then approved by the Board
of Regents in 2000 for a Central Campus location next to The Power
Center.
But drastically escalating cost estimates and a sagging economy led U-M
officials to rethink the project and consider a new location. The
theater
now will be part of the Walgreen Drama Center, which will include other
student drama facilities.
- The audience was sold-out for a public interview between Miller
andMel
Gussow on 19 Nov. 2003 (originally scheduled for Sept. 22).
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Miller accepted his Jerusalem Prize in Israel on June 24th, 2003 at
which
he gave a speech.
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Miller appeared on June 23rd 2003 at the Martin Beck Theater, since
renamed
the Al Hirschfeld Theater, to speak in honor of the late artist, Al
Hirschfield.
The ceremonies began at 7 p.m. and were open to the public.
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Desmond-Fish Library honored Miller at a special fundraiser dinner on
June
7th 2003 at the Garrison Golf Club, Garrison, NY. Space limited,
reservations necessary. Call library for information at 845 424
3020.
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On March 7 2003, Miller appeared at CUNY as part of a TimesTalk weekend.
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In 2001 the National Book Foundation bestowed its Distinguished
Contribution
to American Letter's Medal on Arthur Miller. Mr. Miller accepted the
honor
in New York City at the 2001 National Book Awards Dinner on November
14th.
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In honor of its 25th year at its South Bank location The National
Theatre,
London recently held a Poll to determine the most memorable play from
each
year. The results included three plays by Miller: 1987 A View
from the Bridge, 1994 Broken Glass, and 2000 All My Sons.
A series of events were scheduled featuring extracts and discussion
with
key figures in connection with each play. The platform
celebration
for 1994s Broken Glass was on Friday, 7 Sept. 2001, at 6pm in
the
Cottesloe Theatre, featuring director David Thacker and the actors who
played the Gellburgs (Henry Goodman and Margot Leicester), and Harriet
(Julia Swift), all from the 1994 British premier production of the
play.
The platform celebration for 2000s All My Sons was on
Wednesday,
19 Sept. 2001, at 6pm in the Lyttelton Theatre, featuring director
Howard
Davies and other members of the original cast. This production
was
also revived for that current season.
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Arthur Miller appeared at The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., on
Monday,
March 26, in an event sponsored by the NEH--the speech he gave was
published
in June 2001 edition of Harpersas well as extended and printed
in
book form as Art and the Politics of Acting(2001).
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As part of their Evening Reading Series, Arthur Miller appeared in a
forum
with Joyce Carol Oates and others at Queen's College on October 13,
1999.
He appeared again at Queen's College on October 18th, 2000 with Peter
Matthiessen,
Frank McCourt, and Grace Paley as part of the same series in a session
titled "A Reading in Honor of Arthur Miller on the Occasion of his 85th
Birthday."
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The New York Times--New York is Book Country Literary Brunch.
September
24, 2000, at The Waldorf-Astoria, The Grand Ballroom Park Avenue at
50th
Street, New York City. Arthur Miller attended with Cynthia Ozick,
Nicholas Sparks, Liz Smith, Candace Bushnell, and master of ceremonies,
William H. Honan.
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There was a one day birthday celebration gala in Arthur Miller's honor
in England, October 14th, 2000, hosted by Christopher Bigsby at the
Sainsbury
Center, University of East Anglia. There was an interview with
Miller,
and a discussion with theatrical practitioners, followed by a gala
dinner
and reception.
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Arthur Miller gave the keynote address at the birthday celebration
which
the University of Michigan held in honor of his 85th birthday. Titled,
"Arthur Miller's America: Theatre and Culture in a Century of Change,"
the event took place 26-28th October 2000. It kicked off a year
of
theater at U-M, which presented a variety of guests, scholars,
commentators,
critics, practitioners, and panel participants from around the world,
including
Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, and London. Mel Gussow of the New
York
Times was part of a panel discussing "Miller and the American
Theater"
on Oct. 28. U-M's Museum of Art presented a photographic exhibit
of work by professional photographer Inge Morath, Miller's wife.
The exhibit, "Arthur Miller at Work," included material from her years
as a "Magnum" photographer with some photos from the set of "The
Misfits,"
as well as many shots of Miller over the years. Though this
Morath
material has been shown in Barcelona and Paris, this was the first
showing
of her work on this subject in the United States. Among the
activities
and events scheduled during the celebration was a presentation by U-M
composer
William Bolcom discussing the problems of transforming Miller's "A View
from the Bridge" into an opera. U-M's Hatcher and Bentley
libraries
mounted exhibits illustrating Miller's years at U-M and those
immediately
after his graduation. Miller's works that have been adapted for
film
were shown before and after the symposium. U-M's Theatre and
Drama
Department staged "A View from the Bridge" during the symposium at a
special
performance on Oct. 27. This Miller work was also presented Oct.
5-8 and 12-15 in U-M's Trueblood Theatre.