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Article: Bebop Apocalypse.(Entertainment)(Lord Leebrick's production of black activist Amiri Baraka's `jazz opera' is the most ambitious premiere as the first three plays of 2002 open)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2002
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Byline: FRED CRAFTS The Register-Guard
CORRECTION (ran 1/9/02): Obie-winning playwright/activist Amiri Baraka will give a free lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday in the Erb Memorial Union's Gumwood Room. The time was incorrect in Sunday's Arts & Books section.
LIFE HAS BEEN mighty complicated for Corey Pearlstein, the Lord Leebrick Theatre artistic director who is putting together the West Coast premiere of Amiri Baraka's "Primitive World."
"I've been working with artists who are in five different places in the country," Pearlstein says, "so the logistics and the scope of the talent coming in to be involved in the show are a remarkable quantum leap for ...