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By J. WYNN ROUSUCK and J. WYNN ROUSUCK,SUN THEATER CRITIC | March 2, 2006
At some point in A.R. Gurney's What I Did Last Summer, just about every character proclaims that the play is about him or her. But in a sense, director Suzanne Pratt's production is also about Theatre Hopkins - a theater that is currently without a home. This strong production - mounted for a brief two-weekend run in temporary quarters at Johns Hopkins University's Swirnow Theater - is the latest reminder of how much this fine community theater deserves a place it can call its own. Gurney's play is set in a Canadian resort town on the shores of Lake Erie in 1945.
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By J. Wynn Rousuck and J. Wynn Rousuck,SUN THEATER CRITIC | August 25, 2005
Wanna put on a show, but having trouble finding props and costumes? Theatre Hopkins could have the answer to your problems. Forced to vacate its longtime home in the Merrick Barn at the Johns Hopkins University to make room for the university's undergraduate theater courses, Theatre Hopkins is holding a sale of costumes, props and memorabilia from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Mattin Center's F. Ross Jones Building on the Homewood campus, 3400 N....
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By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,SUN STAFF | August 10, 2005
Clifford R. Jarrett Jr., an actor who was the first producer of Maryland Public Television's The Critics' Place, died of cancer Friday at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. The former Bolton Hill resident was 62. Born in Baltimore, he attended Gilman School and went into radio broadcasting on the Eastern Shore in his late teens. He recalled being on duty in March 1962 while a major storm lashed Ocean City's Boardwalk and destroyed numerous buildings. During the later 1960s through early 1970s, Mr. Jarrett worked at WJZ-TV as a producer and floor director for news, prime time and public affairs programming, including Family Counselor, which was syndicated and received an Emmy from the Washington Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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By J. Wynn Rousuck and J. Wynn Rousuck,SUN THEATER CRITIC | March 3, 2005
In William Nicholson's play Shadowlands, when British writer and philosopher C.S. Lewis and American poet Joy Davidman Gresham meet for the second time, she asks if he's ever really been hurt. By the end of this affecting play, Lewis - best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - has not only experienced greater hurt than ever before, he's also experienced romantic love for the first time. Under Suzanne Pratt's direction at Theatre Hopkins, Robert Riggs portrays Lewis' elation and suffering with genuine feeling and also with the subtlety that befits his character, a pensive man who was surprised by love in midlife.
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By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,SUN STAFF | November 18, 2004
Mark E. Campion, a lumber mill foreman who had leading roles in community theater productions and appeared in television commercials, died of surgical complications related to cancer Nov. 11 at University of Maryland Medical Center. The Govans resident was 58. Born in Baltimore and raised in the Westgate area of Baltimore County, he was a 1964 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School. After serving in the Army, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1976 from what is now Towson University. As a 15-year-old, he began working part time for Walbrook Mill and Lumber Co. on West North Avenue.
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By J. Wynn Rousuck and J. Wynn Rousuck,SUN THEATER CRITIC | October 28, 2004
Long-winded is a term that could justifiably be applied to George Bernard Shaw -- but not at Theatre Hopkins. That's because director Suzanne Pratt has put together an anthology of Shaw shorts, or as she's calling them, Shaw: Four Starters. The program consists of prologues and/or first acts of four Shaw plays, from the familiar (Arms and the Man) to the semi-obscure (Too True to Be Good). There's a degree of timeliness to Pratt's selections -- war, leadership and health care (even the efficacy of flu shots)