The Cradle Rocks Again at City Center Marc Blitzstein's 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock has one of the most celebrated origin stories in the history of American theatre. It was written for the Federal Theatre Project to be directed by Orson Welles and produced by John Houseman, but the FTP, responding to intense pressure from Congress, abruptly closed the politically pointed show. The theatre was locked, the costumes seized and ...
June 22, 2013 - Playbill
John Ratzenberger in KCCI.com I met Paul Newman when I was a junior in high school, when I was the houseman in a billiard parlor in Westport, Conn.,Ratzenberger recalled. "He came in to shoot pool one night. I met him that one night and never saw him again, so I'm...
Suzy Chaffee in Send2Press (press release) Tsunamis of Appreciation to Red Ute and the Cloud Clan for transforming their Rain-dance to the first Snow-dance. And to Vail's Bob Parker and Dick Houseman for desperately asking them to help end their opening drought in 1963,said Chaffee.
G Love in Tahoe Daily Tribune We got a new lineup with Houseman (Jeffrey Clemens), Mark Boyce and Timo Shanko filling out the Special Sauce,G. Love wrote on his Web site in February. "I had a successful surgery on my vocal chords, and I'm not lying when I say I'm...