January 28, 1999

Lola Pashalinski and Linda Chapman star in the world
premiere of "Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving," a
drama based on the lives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B.
Toklas. The production debuts in Edison Theatre
Thursday and Friday, Feb. 4 and 5.
World premiere of "Gertrude and Alice" at Edison Feb. 4, 5
By Liam Otten
A play is a play is a play, of course, but perhaps it is more of a play when it involves three fixtures of New York's avant garde theater scene, still more when it's a world premiere six years in the making. Such a play will come to Washington University Thursday and Friday, Feb. 4 and 5, when director Anne Bogart and actors Linda Chapman and Lola Pashalinski bring their new two-woman show "Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving" to Edison Theatre. Performances are at 8 p.m.
"Gertrude and Alice" examines the turbulent relationship between one of early modernism's most famous pairs, the writer Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas.
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Symposium focusing on Stein's work

Gertrude Stein's birthday is Feb. 3 and the grand old dame of American letters is looking awfully spry for her 125 years. In recognition of her work's importance to 20th century poetry and prose -- and in anticipation of the role it will continue to play in the next century -- the Creative Writing Program in Arts and Sciences will sponsor a conference titled "Gertrude Stein @ the Millennium" Feb. 5-7.

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Young scholars receive book awards

Ninety-eight outstanding high school students in Missouri and Illinois recently received 1998 Book Awards from Washington University.

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Gospel legends The Blind Boys of Alabama bring their
spirited sounds to Edison Theatre for a one-night-only
performance Feb. 6 with a capella legends The Persuasions.

Blind Boys of Alabama at Edison

Six decades after their founding at the Taladega Institute for the Deaf and Blind, gospel legends the Blind Boys of Alabama continue to bring their spirited music to audiences around the world. On Feb. 6, that lucky audience will be in St. Louis when the Blind Boys -- joined by a cappella troubadours The Persuasions -- come to Edison Theatre for an evening of ecstatic, revival-style testimony.

Founded during the Great Depression as the Five Blind Boys, the group has grown over the years to a total of nine singers and still includes three original members -- Clarence Fountain, George Scott and Johnny Fields.

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