Theater

This play just does not 'git 'er done'

Surprise, there are dopey stereotypes to be found in the magical land of trailer parks. Directed by Steven Meerdink for Minneapolis Musical Theatre. There's a line of dialogue early in "The Great American Trailer Park Musical"...

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More reasons why 'Brighton Beach' closed

Fading Neil Simon fans, theater locale among factors "I think marketing is always an ingredient, and it's an easy one to run to," says "Brighton Beach Memoirs" producer Emanuel Azenberg. The south-of-Times Square location of...

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Argento still 'making a statement'

Joel Koyama, Star Tribune Pultizer prize winning world known compser Domnick Argento. Almost 25 years after his "Casanova's Homecoming" opened the Ordway Center, composer Dominick Argento reflects on his work and the state of...

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Casting director's acting takes off

Jane Alderman finds success in 'Superior Donuts' Like a lot of thesps now appearing on Broadway, Jane Alderman has a long string of film, TV and stage credits. Alderman, who has a featured role in "Superior Donuts" as a dotty...

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS? NOT FOR STARS: Carrey's & Clooney's Pics Open Soft Friday; Big Debut For Oscar...

FRIDAY PM/SATURDAY AM: If there's a Christmas-themed movie opening in November, then it's the official start of the holiday box office. (Hey, no studio waits for Thanksgiving anymore...) 1. Disney's A Christmas Carol. You know...

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Remembering Tennessee Williams

Playwright John Patrick Shanley referring to Tennessee Williams as a “gorgeous unstoppable beast,” recounted an incident in a restaurant when he, a budding writer, maybe thirty feet away from the master dramatist, could not...

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Review of Arne's Artaxerxes

I have long been familiar with the aria A soldier tired from Thomas Arne's opera Artxerxes because I, like many people I suspect, listened to it regularly as part of Joan Sutherland's wonderful boxed...

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Doug Moe: Arts thrive with Jean on the scene

Jean Birkett’s passions for Richland Center and theater have come together in the effort to restore the Richland Center Municipal Auditorium. All the more so because some four decades earlier, in the Richland Center Municipal...

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Bollywood goes for a reality check in society’s dark underbelly

Madhur Bhandarkar’s journey into dark corners of society continues. This time round he stops over at a jail to give us a reality check. It is the ultimate ignominy for many to spend even a night in prison but some unlucky ones...

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Taipei Performing Arts Center promises to become world-class architecture

"Pingban or Moderato" explores natural emission of sounds while engaged in body moves. Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, his German partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), look like they are going to create an...

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