The Curious Savage - 1950 The Curious Savage Martin Beck Theatre - 1950 The Curious Savage, written by John Patrick, is a comedic play abo...

The New Paltz High School Drama Club is set to tackle The Curious Savage, a comedy written by John Patrick, this coming weekend. According to veteran Drama Club director Nancy Owen, she knew that her theater enthusiasts were eager for a comedy to perform this fall. “The difficulty with comedies is that they often have

The Curious Savage - 1950 The Curious Savage Martin Beck Theatre - 1950 The Curious Savage, written by John Patrick, is a comedic play abo...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about one of my favorite plays from high school . And I realized that there was one more that needed to be ...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about one of my favorite plays from high school . And I realized that there was one more that needed to be ...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about one of my favorite plays from high school . And I realized that there was one more that needed to be ...

OREM — Ethel Savage (Karen Baird) is the widow of a multimillionaire. She decides to place his ten million dollar fortune into a fund to help ordinary peopl ...

A Curious Choice - With the musty The Curious Savage, Tarrant Actors Regional Theater doesn't live up to its promising 2013 debut.

By Sam Tweedle. Peterborough Theatre Guild production runs September 26th to October 11th.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about one of my favorite plays from high school . And I realized that there was one more that needed to be ...

The Curious Savage - 1950 The Curious Savage Martin Beck Theatre - 1950 The Curious Savage, written by John Patrick, is a comedic play abo...

Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Jordan-Elbridge High School auditorium.

Dr. Emmett's Monologue from The Curious Savage including context, text and video example.

The Curious Savage - 1950 The Curious Savage Martin Beck Theatre - 1950 The Curious Savage, written by John Patrick, is a comedic play abo...

This past weekend, the Clay High School Fine Arts Department opened and closed the show The Curious Savage with two different casts of students and two different interpretations by two different directors. I saw the first cast which was comprised of two seniors, five juniors, and four freshman and directed by Kathryn Hein.

In 1935, Dean Edward T. Lee started his Practice Court, a mock nisi prius forum in which actual events provided the "facts" of litigation, students interviewed real witnesses, and there was the realistic clash of conflicting testimony in "court." At first Practice Court co-existed with the traditional Moot Court, but by 1938 the former had supplanted the latter.

My mother never wore heels or pearls like June Cleaver, and I can't imagine her chasing five kids around the house, walking us to school or running us to Scouts and our other activities in them, but we loved watching Mrs. Cleaver just the same in "leave it to Beaver" each week. As well as admiring her "mother skills" on the show, she was truly a fashion icon for me with grace and elegance. I loved her dresses then, and admire them even more now on reruns of the show. Dresses that are still in style today, and coveted among vintage fashion lovers. Barbara Billingsley wasn't a glamour queen with fashions like "movie stars" and she wasn't much different from other TV moms of the 50's shows like Donna Reed, Ozzie & Harriet, and Father Knows Best, but she certainly held her own. She represented classic day wear styles. Her character favored classic shirt waist dresses with full skirts, rarely a wiggle dress, and always wore her pearls and heels. In almost every episode she donned an apron, and even looked pretty in them. Ms. Billingsley admitted that she had a "hollow" in her neck that photographed badly, and felt the pearls concealed it. She wore them in real life and suggested them for her role on the show. The heels were to keep her taller than her rapidly growing sons on the show. Barbara started out as a model, then moved into acting. She was married three times, and ironically had two sons, like her role as Mrs. Clever and admits she was very much like June in life. Years later, we got to see the fun side of Barbara.. The comedienne in her.. Talking Jive in the movie Airplane. There have been re-makes and movies of Leave it to Beaver, but no one could fill Barbara's heels in the role of June. We'll miss you Ms. Billingsley. On a lighter note..lets play Six Degrees of Separation. In 1989 a radio station I worked for had a "beaver ball" game.. Listeners could win a chance to play ball on Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmund) or Beaver's (Jerry Mathers) team. I was with the Eddie Haskell crew, but enjoyed meeting Beav just as much. Yes, I did ask what Barbara was like in real life, and they both had nothing but respect and admiration for her. And since both guys were Barbara Billingsley's son's on the show.. how many degrees of separation?

Vanessa Stockard

I remember when growing up, before the era of mega musicals Cats, Phantom and Les Miz, a standard question to someone returning from London was “Did you see The Mousetrap?” To have the play on stag…