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27654
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'The Scottsboro Boys' |
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Jeff Lunden |
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A new musical which focuses on a shameful episode in American racial history just opened on Broadway. "The Scottsboro Boys" delves into an infamous 1930s legal case in which nine ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2010
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25579
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California: Traveling in Pasadena |
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Corinna Lothar |
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Pasadena is Chippewa for "crown of the valley," and it''s a perfect fit for this city, settled by a group of Midwesterners who arrived in Southern California in 1873.
The ...
Issue Date: 5 / 2007
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25415
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Colorado: Colorado's Hogbacks |
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J. Antonio Pérez |
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Nested at the southwest edge of Denver, Colorado, towering, slanted red megaliths can be found looming in the Roxborough State Park behind its visitor center. The more than ...
Issue Date: 2 / 2007
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The Body Project Looks at Women's Obsession With Body Image |
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Jayne Blanchard |
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On one end of the spectrum, you have the pneumatic dimensions of Pamela Anderson. On the other are uber-thin Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, and Cameron Diaz. Is it any wonder the ...
Issue Date: 5 / 2006
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24893
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Damn Yankees Celebrates Two National Pastimes |
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Stephen Henkin |
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One could reasonably argue that baseball is an art form. Like a theatrical production, the great American pastime is imbued with grace, intriguing players, challenges, ups and ...
Issue Date: 3 / 2006
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24867
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An Ohio Entrepreneur's Amazing Museum of Magic |
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Kym Kuenning |
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Coaxing a magician into giving up the secret to a good trick is much like uncovering the special ingredient to a good loaf of bread. Ken Klosterman of the Klosterman Baking Co., ...
Issue Date: 2 / 2006
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12962
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Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Bard Over Alabama |
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Hap Erstein |
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Move over Forrest Gump. The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is giving the Heart of Dixie a whole new cultural look.
The twenty-fifth anniversary season of the ...
Issue Date: 12 / 1995
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Clones on Broadway |
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Hap Erstein |
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Looking at the directory of Broadway musicals in recent seasons, it would be understandable to do a double take and check the date of the newspaper. More and more, the landscape ...
Issue Date: 7 / 1995
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Miss Saigon: Whither Asian-American Actors? |
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Scarlet Cheng |
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In the heated controversy over the casting of Miss Saigon last summer, the battle often seemed to be between the highly visible British producer Cameron Mackintosh and a rather ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1991
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Chicago International Festival: Theater Takes Chicago by Storm |
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Nicholas Rudall |
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The Third International Theatre Festival of Chicago has begun. The city''s stages are hosting the theatrical artistry of ten nations in sixteen productions performed by thirteen ...
Issue Date: 6 / 1990
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Bard of His People |
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Michael Marshall |
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The Piano Lesson is a deceptively sedate title for a play that seethes with such violent energies. But the eerie wind-blown curtain that opens the play offers a premonition of ...
Issue Date: 4 / 1990
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16899
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Lloyd Webber Back on Broadway |
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Herb Greer |
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Saying something unkind about an Andrew Lloyd Webber show is like trying to cut a path through a room full of feathers with a baseball bat. Even where reviews are sour, as they ...
Issue Date: 4 / 1990
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Moss Hart Revived: The Wonderful World of Theater |
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Cynthia Grenier |
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The Broadway theater season of 1948-49 had some really big hits. It you never saw them on stage, you certainly caught some of them on film, or at least on late night television. ...
Issue Date: 3 / 1988
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14087
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Chicago, That Towering Theater Town: Raw Energy Generates World-Class Drama |
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Nicholas Rudall |
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Within the past decade, Chicago has acquired not only a national but an international reputation as a city overflowing with theatrical energy. After the first successful exports ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1988
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12023
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Black Theater Triumphant: A Dynamic Duo From the Yale Repertory |
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Tom Killen |
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August Wilson, Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright whose Fences was the first serious play in many a season on Broadway, is one of the most important writers for ...
Issue Date: 12 / 1987
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12025
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August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone: A Spirtual Odyssey |
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Michael Marshall |
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August Wilson, one of America''s outstanding playwrights, has boldly moved into new creative areas in his latest work, Joe Turner''s Come and Gone. This play continues ...
Issue Date: 12 / 1987
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13069
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Los Angeles Theater: More Alive Than You Know |
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John C. Mahoney |
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Today, Los Angeles theater may well be the busiest and most prolific anywhere in the world, with a surfeit of impressive edifices and no lack of exciting new works. There has ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1987
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Off-Broadway: Where to Find Real Theater Today |
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Todd London |
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Broadway theater is suffering from its greatest artistic slump in over a decade. Escalating costs have meant that only megahit musicals can afford to play this street, a fact ...
Issue Date: 5 / 1987
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New York Theater Scene |
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Jeff Church and Todd London |
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Broadway Bound Soundly Completes Simon''s Trilogy
by Jeff Church
The winter of 1948 was a cold one for the Jerome household, and the chilly snap had ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1987
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Young Playwrights Festival Opens Door to Professional Theater |
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Jeff Church |
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"In one sense, it''s disillusioning to see how hard theater is and how complicated it is," says Carolyn Jones, a winter in the Fifth Annual Young Playwrights Festival for her ...
Issue Date: 1 / 1987
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