American Repertory's Brustein, Orchard join Moscow theater conference

The American Repertory Theatre's Robert Brustein, artistic director, and Robert Orchard, managing director, traveled to Moscow last month to participate in an international theater conference held at the Moscow Art Theatre.

The event was held at the historic theater in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the meeting between founders Konstantin Stanislavaky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, as they laid the foundation of the principles of their new theater and its groundbreaking philosophy.

Brustein and Orchard are the American representatives joining international theater luminaries Ingmar Bergman of Sweden, Peter Brook of England, Arianne Mnushkin of France, Peter Stein of Germany, Georgio Strehler of Italy, and Tadashi Suzuki of Japan.

The conference addressed issues that have concerned the worldwide theater community over the century, and the state of theater in the modern world.

Ceramics on view at Hilles Library

Handbuilt bowls with interiors that reflect the artist's interpretations of sand dunes, rock formations, campfires, and memories are on display in "Clay Landscapes," a Hilles Library exhibition of work by Michelle Zacks of the Radcliffe Ceramics Studio. The library is at Garden and Shepard streets and the show is on view now through July 25.

Communicating with children is topic of program

A program on improving communication with your child will be held at the Be Well! Tanger Center for Health Management at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on Thursday, July 17, from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Be Well! Conference Room, East Campus. The program, "Positive Communication with your Child: Setting the Stage for an Interactive Talk for Parents of Children Through Age Six," will be led by Marcy Tannenbaum-Fox, LCSW. For information, call 667-4695.

Five Harvard Scientists Receive Runyon-Winchell Fellowships

The Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation awarded its Runyon-Winchell postdoctoral fellowships. Five fellows are in laboratories at Harvard, including Timothy F. Jamison (sponsor: Eric Jacobsen), Natasha M. Kablaoui (Stuart Schreiber), Paul Danese (Howard Berg), Yuval Blat (Nancy Kleckner), and Ofer Mandelboim (Jack Strominger). The recipients of the awards are outstanding young scientists conducting theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention.