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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19980208
Author:DAMIEN JAQUES

For the 16th annual season, the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre will stage its George Bernard Shaw Festival, and the cynics among us may ask why. The Chamber Theatre has worked its way through the major plays in the Shavian canon into the iconoclast's obscure works. Perhaps in anticipation of this question, artistic director Montgomery Davis and managing director Kathleen Stacy invited Rhoda Nathan, president of the Bernard Shaw Society of America, to speak about the playwright as part of this year's festival.

Nathan is also a special lecturer at the New York Historical Society and professor ...

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