Henry Hewes Collection

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Henry Hewes Collection

Papers of Henry Hewes, drama critic for the SATURDAY REVIEW from 1955 to 1973, and founder of the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA).

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Drama Desk (Association)

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New York Drama Critics' Circle

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Hewes, Henry

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Mechanical engineer residing in Charleston, South Carolina. From the description of Letter : Charleston, S.C., to William H. Garland, Savannah, Ga., 1847 Sept. 12. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144152 ...

Henry Hewes

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Henry Hewes was born on April 9, 1917, and raised in Boston. He once said he was first smitten with theater when he and some school friends went to see a show backed by a classmate’s father in honor of his 10th birthday. The classmate was John F. Kennedy. But Mr. Hewes’s mother was also a theater producer, and after serving in the Air Force in World War II, Mr. Hewes abandoned his pre-med studies at Harvard to study theater at Columbia, where he graduated in 1949. His first theater-journalism jo...