Tony-nominated director and member of the College of the Holy Cross Class of 1981, Bart Sher, was profiled by The New York Times Magazine on Feb. 24, 2008, while preparing for the opening performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. Dedicated, sensitive, hard-working and optimistic, Sher plans to outshine the original performance, which opened in 1949.
According to the article, Alex Witchel of The New York Times says, “He is famous for creating his own company, or family, of talent. His loyalty and commitment to those he loves is as blindingly intense as his loyalty and commitment to his work.”
Sher’s revival of South Pacific opens on April 3 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center, in New York.
Sher has served as artistic director of the Intiman Theatre in Seattle for the last eight years. His many credits include Light in the Piazza, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical; Awake and Sing, also nominated for a Tony Award, this time for Best Direction of a Play; The Barber of Seville; Nickel and Dimed; and The Dying Gaul. Sher’s staging of Cymbeline, the first American Shakespearean production seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company, earned him the prestigious Joe A. Callaway Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.
Sher will be directing two more productions at the Met and this summer; his Roméo et Juliette will debut at the Salzburg Festival.
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Bart Sher ’81, Tony-Nominated Director, is Profiled in The New York Times Magazine
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