Back Stage, 7 September 1984
"Stars light dark season; theater," by Victoria Gluck
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AWAITING OUT OF TOWN 

REACTION 

Major regional producers mount new productions with an eye 
to New York but cautiously await critical reaction before 
announcing Broadwa plans. Roger L. Stevens will be 
presenting David Pownall's Master Class at the Kennedy 
Center's Eisenhower Theatre from Sept. 6-Oct. 20. St in the 
Kremlin in 1948, the cat offour is made up of Stalin, 
Shostaskovich, Prokofiev and Marshall Zhandov. Currently in 
rehearsal, David Trainer is directing George Dzundza, Werner 
Klemperer, Michael Zaslow and Richard Latessa in these 
roles. This will be the Broadway debut for Pownall whose 
Livingston and Sechele was an Off Broadway hit at the Quaigh 
in 1983. 

John Osborne's A Patriot For Me, a recent hit at the 
Chichester Theatre and London's West End starring Alan 
Bates, will now resurface at the Ahmanson Theatre is Los 
Angeles. Produced by Robert Fryer, the revival stars Bates 
along with June Ritchie and George Rose. Also from London, 
Ronald Eyre again directs a cast featuring David Yelland, 
Charles Shaughnessy, Nicholas Gecks, David King, Kelsey 
Grammer, Anthony Head, Jo Webster, Angela Down, Paul 
Carleton, Bruce French, George Murcell and Harry Andrews. 
The drama, about the last days of the Austro-Hungarian 
Empire, was controversial in the '60s because of its drag 
ball. It is targeted to open in New York during Christmas 
week. 

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