Upcoming: Memorial at UT for Oscar G. Brockett, December 11, 4 p.m.

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Remembering Dr. Oscar G. Brockett

Public Memorial Celebration at the B. Iden Payne Theatre, University of Texas
December 11 | 4:00 PM

A public memorial celebration for Dr. Oscar G. Brockett will be held on Saturday, December 11, 2010, at 4:00 p.m. in the B. Iden Payne Theatre in the Winship Drama Building. Immediately following the celebration, there will be a reception in the Brockett Theatre/Winship Atrium.

Please know that there will be an opportunity at the reception for friends to speak, if they wish to offer a tribute or share a story about Dr. Brockett.

For more information visit: http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/tad/brocket_memorial.cfm
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Oscar Brockett, 1923-2010, by Michael Barnes

Published by the Austin Statesman, November 8:

Oscar Brockett, 1923-2010

By michael barnes

Oscar Brockett, the world’s foremost theater historian and a former University of Texas professor, died early Sunday morning after suffering a massive stroke late Saturday.

Brockett, 87, leaves behind hundreds of former students and colleagues around the world, as well as a daughter, Francesca Brockett, and her husband, Dr. James Pedicano of Austin.

“(He) was an absolute giant in the field of theater history,” said Doug Dempster, dean of the UT College of Fine Arts. “He defined it in many ways. His name is synonymous with the field across several continents. He was a prolific, meticulous scholar into the very last year of his long career. He leaves a legacy that will last as long again as his long life.”

In 1968, Brockett wrote “History of the Theatre.” It has since been translated into dozens of languages, including a suppressed version in Farsi. It is now in its 10th edition and has passed through the hands of almost every American theater student for four decades.

Read full text at Statesman.com . . . .

Upcoming Lecture: Carl Weber, 'A Life in the Theatre,' Trinity University, San Antonio, October 24

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The Stieren Lectures at Trinity University, San Antonio, present

A Life in the Theater:

An Evening with International Stage Director Carl Weber

Sunday, Oct. 24, 7 p.m. in the Stieren Theater.

Carl Weber, world-renowned director, dramaturg, and translator, joined the Berliner Ensemble as an actor and assistant director to Bertolt Brecht in 1952. As a director at the Ensemble during the sixties, he staged numerous plays and guest-directed at theaters in Germany, Scandinavia, and the U.S. In 1966, Weber was appointed master-teacher of directing and acting at NYU. Later, he chaired the graduate directing department at the Tisch School of the Arts. Since 1984, he has led the Ph.D. program in directing at Stanford.

Weber has directed more than 80 productions, collaborating with Peter Palitzsch, Ed Bullins, Peter Handke, and Tony Kushner, and has translated and edited the work of Heiner Müller. At Trinity, he will direct Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, running November 12 - 14 and 17 - 20.

Click to view Weber's biography at www.stanford.edu