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Harry Morgan, 1915-2011: An appreciation
Show TrackerHarry Morgan, who died Wednesday at age 96, could command your attention while still seeming quite ordinary. That was Harry Morgan's particular magic.... -
Vaclav Havel, a playwright with political passion
Culture MonsterVaclav Havel, the former Czech president who died Saturday at 75, was the perfect example of an increasingly rare specimen -- the politically engaged playwright. In today's theatrical climate dominated by silly movie retreads and safe little dramas,... -
Ben Gazzara, 81, leaves a rich, gruff legacy in theater and film
Culture MonsterBen Gazzara, who died Friday in New York at the age of 81, was an actor with a gruff voice and intense demeanor. His acting legacy, which included the films of John Cassavetes and originating the role of Brick in...... -
Artists join Occupy LA movement at City Hall
Culture MonsterArt and political protest have historically gone hand in hand, each feeding off the anger, the idealism and the creativity of the other. Occupy LA, the grassroots movement now entering its third week in downtown, is no exception.... -
Theater review: 'Waiting for Lefty' at Theatre West
Culture MonsterThey’re not communists, they’re just broke: “Don’t tell me red,” growls a working stiff, “We’ve been kicked around so long we’re black and blue from head to toes.” A body can’t catch a break in “Waiting for Lefty,” Clifford Odets... -
Tony Curtis: 'You're dead, son. Get yourself buried.'
The Big PictureThe cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river and Tony Curtis is dead at 85. No one is going to ever say he was a great actor, especially based on the dreck he did in the last...... -
Hillard Elkins dies at 81; talent manager and producer
Hillard "Hilly" Elkins, a talent manager and producer who brought the nude musical "Oh! Calcutta!" to Broadway and the 1960s counterculture tale "Alice's Restaurant" to the screen, died of a heart attack Wednesday at Olympia Medical Center in Los Angeles....Tags: Dining and Drinking, Rod Steiger, Movies, Richard Nixon, Walter Matthau
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William Gibson dies at 94; Tony Award-winning playwright was best known for 'The Miracle Worker'
William Gibson, 94, a Tony Award-winning playwright best known for "The Miracle Worker," the inspirational story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan, died Tuesday at his home in Stockbridge, Mass. The family did not disclose the cause of death....Tags: Golda Meir, Awards and Prizes, Employees, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Patty Duke
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'The House of Blue Leaves'
Times Theater CriticGROPING for a comfortable moral in John Guare's classic black comedy "The House of Blue Leaves," which opened Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum in a sensational revival directed by Nicholas Martin, is a little like asking an escaped felon for some friendly...Tags: Michael Ritchie, John Guare, Comedy (genre), Entertainment, Academy Awards
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Theater review: 'Parade' at the Mark Taper Forum
Culture MonsterJason Robert Brown???s entrancing Tony-winning score for ???Parade,??? the 1998 musical he wrote with playwright Alfred Uhry (whose book also won a Tony), throws patches of suggestive light on a dark historical episode. Music may be inherently abstract,... -
Oregon Shakespeare Festival offers much to build upon
Theater CriticIf the Oregon Shakespeare Festival doesn't have the most enthusiastic audience of any regional theater in the country, there must be some performing arts center out there with quite a rabid cult. Ashland, OSF's quaint home nestled in the foothills of...Tags: Culture, Death, Cultural Development, Tickets, Landforms
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Theater review: 'Stage Door' at Open Fist Theatre
Culture MonsterOpen Fist, a company best known for staging edgy contemporary works, scored a surprise hit with last year's a pitch-perfect revival of Moss Hart's classic satire of Broadway foibles, "Light Up the Sky." Following up with "Stage Door," another historical.....
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