Documents Tagged ‘theater’
A Quiet Storm
Archive Entry Date: 05/08/2007
At her funeral service in the Carver Community Center, Whittaker's gift for nurturing talent was fondly recalled
Whittaker’s Expressive Arts
Archive Entry Date: 11/27/2002
“The artist part of me has always chosen a storytelling style,” explained Whittaker
If You Shoot For The Moon…
Archive Entry Date: 03/08/1981
An in-depth profile of the remarkable woman who first mentored Richard Pryor as an artist
National TV Debut For Peoria Entertainer
Archive Entry Date: 08/31/1964
Juliette Whittaker encouraged Pryor to “move into every and any stage he could find.”
Carver Variety Show Satire Provides ‘Touch’
Archive Entry Date: 12/06/1963
From the imagination of Juliette Whittaker, a Dixiecrat senator's tour of Hell
The Enchanted Cage
Archive Entry Date: 11/27/1962
Carver Center teens, including later Black Panther Mark Clark, rehearsed a scene from “The Enchanted Cage”
Billy Smiles
Archive Entry Date: 1961
A story of Juliette Whittaker's mentorship — and one of her paintings — grounded this Carver Center fundraising appeal
Swinging Into Action
Archive Entry Date: 11/08/1957
Presenting the Silicons - a doowop group featured in a Carver Center talent show that Pryor may have emceed
270 Sign Up For Carter Program
Archive Entry Date: 09/20/1957
The 1957 Center curriculum ranged from baton-twirling and canasta to scenery building and choir
She Lends Many Talents to Corn Stock
Archive Entry Date: 06/11/1957
A closer look at the Carver Center's resident playwright, director, stage manager, and set designer
Carver Center Steps Toward Expansion
Archive Entry Date: 08/21/56
Pryor's time onstage at Carver was the era of its greatest expansion
Children’s Theater of Carver Center
Archive Entry Date: 3/15/55
A review of “Rumpelstiltskin,” Richard's first stage appearance.
‘Hopalong Hamlet’ Will Ride At Carver
Archive Entry Date: 1950s
Shakespeare's classic re-imagined by Whittaker in an original Carver Center Youth Theater production