The HRDC chooses the shows to play on the Mainstage from a pool of applications.

When the ART re-located to Cambridge from New Haven in 1979, Harvard had hoped it was acquiring a professional theater company to help train students in drama.

But the relationship between the ART and Harvard has been strained in recent years, with students clamoring for more access to the Mainstage and the ART eager to keep its own stage time.

Orchard, who ultimately controls Mainstage time, holds a Faculty of Arts and Sciences appointment, but does not report to a College administrator. He could not be reached for comment last night.

Though Lewis and Illingworth each received copies of the report Monday, their support for the proposal has already been secured. According to Illingworth, the report is aimed not at College administrators, but at the ART.

The report includes a list of individuals--including Orchard, Lewis and Illingworth--who could sit on a new "Task Force on Dance at Harvard," that would hammer out the details of a fifth undergraduate Mainstage slot.

Such a committee would meet amidst a reshuffling of theater space on campus.

Recent changes in the space available for undergraduate productions will force administrators to reevaluate how theater space is allocated. Last year's merger between Radcliffe College and Harvard University means that the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will soon have the right to appropriate Agassiz Theatre and the Riemann Dance Center for Institute use.