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Article: HARRIS' WORK GIVES WOMEN CENTER STAGE.(Show)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 31, 1988
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Byline: Jackie Demaline Executive entertainment editor
In her own quiet way, Julie Harris is a one- woman theater industry.
A whisper of inspiration here, the nudge of financial necessity there and suddenly she has a writer and a theater agreeing to make a play.
Usually they are plays about storytellers - appropriate, since Harris has been telling wonderful stories from the stage for most of her life.
The five-time Tony Award winner opens Wednesday at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, Mass., in "Tusitala (Teller of Tales)," playing the wife of master storyteller and author of "Treasure Island" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," ...