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Critic's Notebook: Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter share literary legacy
Sometimes you can't put your finger on what you've been missing until you encounter it again. After seeing two fine revivals of plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter — "Waiting for Godot" at the Mark Taper Forum and the British production of...
Tags: Christopher Fry, Jonathan Pryce, Poetry, Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau
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Richard Chamberlain channels his father for 'The Heiress'
Richard Chamberlain is putting a lot of his father, Charles, into his role as Dr. Austin Sloper in the Pasadena Playhouse production of "The Heiress," Ruth and Augustus Goetz's 1947 adaptation of Henry James' "Washington Square." The drama begins previews...
Tags: Concerts, Basil Rathbone, Entertainment Events, Celebrities, Richard Chamberlain
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Avenging Angel
LA Times MagazineThe Killing’s Mireille Enos shows the world her bright side... -
A big show in NYC, but little in LA for Japan quake benefit
Culture MonsterPatti LuPone, Richard Thomas and Mary Beth Hurt will star in the New York segment of what's billed as a national effort on Sunday to raise money for Japanese theaters on the anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Major companies in LA... -
John Malkovich's message to the theater world on its special day
Culture MonsterJohn Malkovich will give the annual message for World Theatre Day in Paris at a March 22 kickoff gala of events leading up to the 50th annual celebration on March 27. Here's the text he'll deliver.... -
Emily Mann a natural to direct 'Streetcar' and 'The Convert'
NEW YORK — New Yorker drama critic John Lahr set off a social media firestorm in December with a blog comment that called for a moratorium on those "infernal all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays unless we can have their equal in folly:...
Tags: Tennessee Williams, Athol Fugard, The Walking Dead (tv program), Eliza Doolittle (music group), University of Chicago
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Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship
Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Malcolm X, Tom Stoppard, U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights
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Theater Beat looks at the best of 2011
Culture MonsterThe Times’ Theater Beat reviewers – Philip Brandes, F. Kathleen Foley, Margaret Gray, David C. Nichols and Charlotte Stoudt – spend the year prowling Los Angeles area theaters, especially the smaller ones, and providing their opinions of... -
Gehry-designed New York theater to open with $25-million gift
Culture MonsterFrank Gehry's next building, the new home of New York's Signature Theatre, will open Tuesday. It's being named the Pershing Square Signature Center following a hedge fund's $25 million gift announced Thursday.... -
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...... -
Critic's Notebook: When going from stage to screen, things change in between
The art of adaptation, as the rash of movies derived from plays this season attests, is never easy. The best artistic looters of all time — Shakespeare, the Greek tragedians — recognized that independent vision is everything. Borrowing didn'...Tags: Concerts, Keira Knightley, World War I (1914-1918), Mike Nichols, Coriolanus (movie)
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Monster Mash: John Paul II statue; Frank Gehry and Eisenhower
Culture MonsterThe artist who created a widely criticized sculpture of the late Pope John Paul II said he will carry out changes recommended by a committee; architect Frank Gehry will talk about the Eisenhower memorial on Oct. 5....
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