Guests: PAT KELLY & JEROME WEEKS Topic: ADRIAN HALL PART ONE

Adrian Hall was born in Van,  Texas on December 3,1927. He was an American theater director. His directing style has been described as "bold" and his work was considered part of the first and second generation of the regional theater movement  of the 1960s and late 1980s. He was the founding Artistic Director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island from 1963 to 1986, and the Artistic Director of The Dallas Theater Center in Dallas, Texas  from 1983 to 1989. He is considered to have created major and divisive change within both institutions. Patrick Kelly is Professor of Drama Emeritus at University of Dallas where, with Judy his wife, he taught for forty-two years. Besides scores of campus productions he hasdirected plays at professional theaters around the country. He has also taught in such graduate theatre programs as University of Washington, Denver's National Theatre Conservatory, University of Colorado at Boulder and SouthernMethodist University. Jerome Weeks was the arts producer-reporter for the NPR-PBS station KERA for 15 years. A professional critic for more than three decades, he was the book columnist for TheDallas Morning News for ten years and the paper’s theater critic for ten years before that. He blogged as book/daddy for Artsjournal, and his writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre  magazine.