An artist, art director, and Shakespeare scholar, he appeared in many Ridiculous Theatrical Company productions.
Vanessa Redgrave and Mariam C. Said, the widow of Edward W. Said, the prominent Columbia University scholar, have teamed up for a theatrical piece based on the life and times of Ms. Said's mother in Beirut, the producers said on Tuesday.
Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Unfinished Business of Brown v. Board of Education Civil rights history tours of Frederick, theatrical production on Brown, exhibits and speakers, including the scholar Cornel West and the former N.A.A.C.P. president Julian Bond.
Thursday, through Saturday in Hempstead, N.Y., Hofstra University and the Melville Society will present panel discussions by scholars and writers, including E. L. Doctorow; theatrical performances; and exhibitions of related art, manuscripts and books.
Though not a scholar per se, he was thoroughly schooled in theatrical literature, and among actors he was known as a brilliant text analyst and a stern taskmaster.
The book, now in paperback, was written over an eight-year period by Kaufman, who is also a seasoned New York theater critic, film scholar, and author of Ridiculous: The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Ludlam, another inspired biography (and just released in a Japanese edition) about the late Greenwich Village theater artist who, on the surface, couldn't be more different from Day.
All that may seem unpromising to Shakespeare scholars, but the operatic "Hamlet" generates its own theatrical frissons when placed in the right hands and treated sympathetically.
The CenTENNial is a broad literary event, with writers like Armistead Maupin discussing their own work, but it also includes liberal doses of Williams, including a scholars' conference, panel discussions of his film characters, and theatrical performances of well-known works like "The Glass Menagerie" and obscurities like "The Pretty Trap".
While popular with audiences, the theatrical treatment of the barbarian was rejected by hardcore fans and scholars of Howard's stories.
