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  The Taming of the Shrew

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion. The Taming of the Shrew. (2017, May 26). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:53, May 31, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Taming_of_the_Shrew&oldid=782414607

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  The Diary of Anne Frank

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  The Diary of Anne Frank, found by Anne's father after the young girl's death, was translated into English and published in a two-part condensation in the magazine, Commentary, and then in book form · in 1952. Its simplicity and candor moved it immediately to the best seller list. Producer Cheryl Crawford obtained the state rights to the book not long after it was published, and Meyer Levin was assigned to its adaptation. But then, quietly, Miss Crawford allowed her option on the rights to drop. Kermit Bloomgarden, veteran producer, immediately picked up the stage rights and elected the husband and wife writing team of Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich to make a new adaptation. The first performance of The Diary of Anne Frank was given in Philadelphia on September 15, 1955, where the reception was enthusiastic. The play opened on Broadway on October 5, 1955, and was unanimously welcomed by the New York critics. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and the Antoinette Perry Award as well. It was later made into a film by Twentieth Century Fox.

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  King of Hearts

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  The play was originally conceived by Eleanor Brooke and was written as an exercise in the drama course at Catholic University in which she was a pupil of Walter Kerr, drama critic of the New York Herald Tribune. Her teacher encouraged her to rewrite the play, which she did several times, and she finally asked a fellow drama student Jean Kerr, wife of Mr. Kerr, to collaborate with her in the final revision.

  The play opened on April 1, 1954, with Cloris Leachman, Jackie Cooper, and Donald Cook in starring roles, and closed on November 27 of the same year. Otterbein is very happy to present this modern comedy.

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  Ten Nights in a Barroom

  Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department

  In the course of which play such alternate scenes of joy and misery, hope and despair, will be portrayed as cannot fail to rivet the attention of the spectator and excite the warmest sympathies of the suffering so patiently endured. The author has put his inventions to rack and every power of his imagination to full flight to embody such characters never yet essayed in any drama.

  The fine and appropriate sceneries of beautiful hues and rich tints in one general and grand effect and bringing into request the complete machineries of this elaborately constructed stage and executed by eminent artists and a phalanx of talented assistants.