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Gripping
Drama of
Human
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Theater, Cambridge, Mass.
• Toby Zinman,
University of the Arts,
Philadelphia

SATURDAY, OCT. 28
RACICHAM WEST
CONFERENCE ROOM

9-10:15 a.m.
"Staging Arthur Miller"

RACKHAM AMPHITHEATER
1:30-2:45 P.M,
"Miller's A WM) From the
Bridge and American Opera"

• Arnold Aronson,
Columbia Universi
• Andrew Safer;
Boston College

• William Bolcom,
University of Michigan
School of Music

RACKHAM AMPHITHEATER

RACICHAM WEST
CONFERENCE Room

10:30 a.m.-noon

"Arthur Miller and the
American Theater"

• Mel Gussow, the
New York Times

3-4:30 p.m.

"Miller and
Autobiography"

RACKHAM WEST
CONFERENCE RooM

• Peter Ferran, Rochester

2-3:15 p.m.

Miller's Plays Today"

• Enoch Brater,
University of Michigan
• Patricia Denison,
Barnard College
• Bruce Mann,
Oakland University

OCT 18

THROUGH

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EximIrnoNs

A teenage girl's joyous love of life

Works on Paper Gallery
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
OF ART

a world gone mad. From her

and indomitable spirit triumphs in

family's secret attic hiding place

Through Nov. 5
"Arthur Miller at Work:
Photographs by
Inge Morath"

in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam,

Institute of Technology

"Death of a Salesman and

• Frank Gagliano,
University oplichigan
Festival of New Plays
• Laurence Goldstein,

Beyond"

3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 22

• Austin E Quigley,
Columbia University
• Mike Sell, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania

NORTH LOBBY
HATCHER
GRADUATE LIBRARY

3:30-5 p.m.

Special performance of A
View from the Bridge, fol-
lowed by a panel discussion

Closing Session:
"Reading, Seeing
and Teaching

RACKHAM AMPHITHEATER

young Anne fills her diary with

hopes and dreams. Her compelling

story of innocence in the face of

HACKETT

RATED PG

terror has inspired generations.

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Oct. 25-Dec. 1

TRUEBLOOD THEATRE
8 P.M. (Invitation Only)

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• Gallery Talk with
Professor Enoch Mater.

Universi t y ofMichigan

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY'S
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ness failed in 1929. Forced to make it
on his own, Miller was accepted by U-
M in 1934 after several attempts. He
first studied history and economics,
eventually earning a degree in English.
His highly successful career began
when he won two prestigious U-M
Hopwood Awards for playwriting.
After one Broadway play failure and
two moderately successful books,
Miller achieved his first big theatrical
success in 1947 when All My Sons ran
for 328 performances on Broadway.
It was followed by the Pulitzer-Prize-
winning Salesman in 1949 and The
Crucible in 1953.
Several Jewish people are involved in
the symposium, as organizers and
panel participants. Enoch Brater, U-M
professor of English and theater, has
been working on the program for two
years. Brater calls Miller "the most
important living American play-
wright," and added: "Miller has played
an enviable role as a public intellectu-
al. He has been and continues to be
the social conscience of the America of
his times."
A Harvard graduate, Brater has been
associated with U-M for 25 years. This
term, he is teaching a senior seminar
on "The Stages of Arthur Miller." He
also is an adjunct professor of theater

studies at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem and author of nine books on
modern theater and drama.
After formal greetings from U-M
officials, Brater will open the sympo-
sium at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26,
with a talk on "From Ann Arbor to
Broadway and Back." At 3 p.m., he
will do a one-on-one interview with
Miller in the style of a TV talk show.
An international panel, featuring
Linda Ben-Zvi, professor of theater at
Tel Aviv University and author of sev-
eral books, including Theater in Israel,
will discuss "Arthur Miller's Theatre"

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School of Music Professor and Pulitzer
Prize winner William Bolcom on
"Miller's A View From the Bridge and
American Opera." Bolcom trans-
formed View into an opera.

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Autobiography," including Laurence
Goldstein, U-M professor of English
and editor of the Michigan Quarterly
Review, follows. A California native
and UCLA graduate, Goldstein has
been a U-M teacher for 30 years.
He calls Miller his "spiritual father,"
having read "every word" of Miller's
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