A VOTE FOR GUTHRIE
While Sir Peter Hall’s brilliant accomplishments speak for themselves, and Trevor Nunn certainly has a right to his opinion, my vote for “the single greatest impresario and theater in our country this century” goes to Sir Tyrone Guthrie (“Another Change of Direction,” by David Gritten, July 12).
Guthrie’s iconoclastic approach to the classics, his stewardship of the Old Vic in the ‘30s and ‘40s, the commercial successes in the West End and on Broadway, and perhaps most significantly the development of the thrust stage, first at Stratford, Ontario, then at Minneapolis, has earned him the accolade given by Harold Clurman: “the most gifted director of the English-speaking stage.”
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Aug. 9, 1998 FOR THE RECORD
Los Angeles Times Sunday August 9, 1998 Home Edition Calendar Page 89 Calendar Desk 1 inches; 35 words Type of Material: Correction
Guthrie letter--A word was inadvertently omitted from Al Rossi’s July 26 letter. This sentence should have read: “. . . my vote for the ‘the single greatest impresario and theater innovator in our country this century’ goes to Sir Tyrone Guthrie.”
AL ROSSI
LACC Theatre Academy
Los Angeles
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