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Peter Stevens obituary

Edit The Guardian 16 Jun 2016
In 1963 John Neville and Judi ... He arrived to find an organisation in disarray; its director, Robin Phillips, had departed and Stevens encouraged his former NT colleague John Dexter to apply, but there was widespread opposition to the notion of “another Brit” at the helm, and when Dexter’s appointment fell through the Stevenses decided to return home....

Obituary: Sir Peter Shaffer, CBE, playwright

Edit Scotsman 10 Jun 2016
His work was a unique mix of philosophical dramas and satirical comedies as portrayed in The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964) directed by John Dexter, which presents the tragic Spanish conquest of Peru ... Dexter is reported to have loved it ... Equus (1973) was the final Shaffer-Dexter collaboration....

Playwright Peter Shaffer brought magic to the theatre with Amadeus and Equus

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 Jun 2016
Rejected by the Royal Court Theatre as "unsuitable", it was staged at the Comedy Theatre by John Gielgud who, after reading the script, declared ... I heard John say to Binkie ... 'They do what?' John replied ... 'Fancy!' At that moment I thought perhaps I hadn't sent the play to the right management." But the play excited the imagination of John Dexter, who ultimately directed it for the National at Chichester....

Sir Peter Shaffer obituary

Edit The Guardian 06 Jun 2016
Directed by John Gielgud at the Comedy theatre, the play concerned an upper middle class English family whose comfortable existence is disrupted by the arrival of Walter, a young German tutor ... Many were dazzled by the combination of Shaffer’s metaphysics, Michael Annals’ design and John Dexter’s staging ... offered to change it, Dexter swiftly replied....

Peter Shaffer wanted to make elaborate theatre – and he succeeded

Edit The Guardian 06 Jun 2016
First with John Dexter as director and then Hall, Shaffer created a theatre of grand visual and gestural spectacle ... Dexter’s production of The Royal Hunt of the Sun (designed by Michael Annals) created a Technicolor theatre that included a huge, metal, petalled sun hung above the stage, actors in golden masks and a vast, unfurling scarlet carpet that represented a bloodbath....

Bernie Sanders set to make another Bay Area campaign swing

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 03 Jun 2016
... a special concert in the Presidio Monday, where he will appear alongside artists such Dave Matthews, Fantastic Negrito, Fishbone and John Dexter Stewart....

Peter Gill on Arnold Wesker: ‘John Dexter brought these new plays to life’

Edit The Guardian 29 Apr 2016
John Dexter’s extraordinary productions of Arnold Wesker’s five early plays, including those best known, articulated, and in some cases developed, still unformed aspects of Wesker’s work, to a degree that no other director of new plays has managed before or since ... I had a tiny part in the Sunday night “try-out” of The Kitchen (1959), and could witness Dexter’s dynamism at first hand....

Obituary: Playwright Sir Arnold Wesker introduced audiences to struggles of working class

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 19 Apr 2016
When The Kitchen was first staged as a Sunday night production, without decor, by John Dexter at the Royal Court, the play (from which Dexter had decided to exclude any sign of food) went down so well as a balletic "workplay" and indictment of capitalist exploitation that it was repeated the following Sunday and in 1959 entered the Royal Court's repertoire....

William Gaskill: a fighter who stayed loyal to his writers

Edit The Guardian 04 Feb 2016
That might have been Gaskill’s mission statement and, like most directors of his generation, including his friend and colleague John Dexter, he was hugely influenced by the visit of Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble to London in 1956 ... At the Royal Court, London, where he started work in 1957, he put that principle into practice in the early work of John Osborne, John Arden and NF Simpson....

William Gaskill obituary

Edit The Guardian 04 Feb 2016
“The climate around the Court was very emotional,” wrote the theatre designer Jocelyn Herbert, “and people’s personal relationships were woven into the fabric of the work there.” Those early collaborations informed Gaskill’s career, with the avuncular artistic director George Devine, actors such as Joan Plowright and Robert Stephens, and the directors John Dexter and Peter Gill....

Students learn about transition into profession at accounting and finance event (Edinboro University)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Nov 2015
Participating EU students, led by Associate Professor of Accounting John Dexter, Ph.D., were Natalie Ferraro, Kristen Pardee, Miranda Venstone, Angelica Dy, Samantha Pytlartz, Edward Taylor, Elizabeth Waterhouse, Tanda Hollabaugh, Susan Ritteger, Natasha Jackson, and Nathan McFadden....

William Kentridge on Lulu: 'You know there’s going to be a body on stage'

Edit The Guardian 31 Oct 2015
The visual artist has directed a radical new version of the opera for the Metropolitan in New York, replete with sex, death and money ... Related ... The frenetic image-making and gently surreal mise en scene is classic Kentridge, a world away from the straightforward but effective John Dexter production that America’s largest opera house has been using for decades – that is, until the new Kentridge version takes over, next week ... Twitter ... ....

Local motor sports notes: Moores continue racing tradition

Edit Sacramento Bee 29 Oct 2015
17 at Roseville’s All American Speedway, his thoughts were with his son, John Dexter Moore, who died in a 2004 accident while testing at Stockton 99 Speedway ... John Moore ....
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