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    Jan 26, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Nicol Williamson dies at 75; legendary British actor

    Once heralded as the greatest British actor of his generation, Nicol Williamson was also a legend for stormy onstage behavior that included calling off a performance of "Hamlet" mid-speech because he was too tired to go on.
    Once heralded as the greatest British actor of his generation, Nicol Williamson was also a legend for stormy onstage behavior that included calling off a performance of "Hamlet" mid-speech because he was too tired to go on. "I'll pay for the seats," he...

    Tags: Music, Sean Connery, Entertainment Events, Theater, Celebrities

    2. Nov 27, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Ralph Fiennes tackles Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'

    <b>Reporting from Toronto &#8212;</b>
    Reporting from Toronto — Like so many of the characters he's portrayed over the course of his decades-long career, the role Ralph Fiennes plays in his own feature film directorial debut, an adaptation of one of Shakespeare's more obscure plays,...

    Tags: Drama (genre), Ralph Fiennes, Entertainment Events, Theater, Celebrities

    3. Jun 21, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. L.A. Theatre Works moving to UCLA for 2011-12 season

    Culture Monster
    L.A. Theatre Works moves from Skirball to UCLA...
    4. Jun 24, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 'A Voyage Round John Mortimer' by Valerie Grove

    June 25, 2008
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    June 25, 2008 Emotionally, William Butler Yeats was a 19th century man, and so his famous dictum that the creative soul must seek "perfection in the life or in the work" once seemed not only practical but also wise. What would the arch-poet have made,...

    Tags: Adultery, Harold Pinter, Literature, Book, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008)

    5. Dec 13, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  5. 'The Browning Version': Terence Rattigan lives at Pacific Resident Theatre

    Culture Monster
    Looking for a drama that will provide psychologically complex characters, sparkling dialogue and a resonant emotional payoff, all packaged in an intriguing plot that takes less than 90 minutes to unfold? Terence Rattigan’s “The Browning Version,”...
    6. Jan 6, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. The magical and the elemental, from Halldr Laxness

    <b>By Richard Rayner</b>
    By Richard Rayner * "Summer up here in the north is beautiful," my Finnish father-in-law once said. "Last year it was on a Thursday." The great Icelandic novelist Halldr Laxness develops this idea in his masterwork, "Independent People": "They stood in...

    Tags: Crimes, Wetlands, Fraud, World War I (1914-1918), Natural Resources

    7. Mar 30, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. 'The Deep Blue Sea': Hushed, deft adaptation resonates ✭✭✭ 1/2

    The Liverpool-bred writer-director Terence Davies is best known for deeply felt, meticulously controlled reveries &quot;The Long Day Closes" and "Distant Voices, Still Lives" and the gorgeous personal essay "Of Time and the City." Now 66, he sees the past &mdash; his own and his country's &mdash; as a war between oxygen-depriving conformity and what another Terence called "the whole of life," in all its terror and wonder.
    The Liverpool-bred writer-director Terence Davies is best known for deeply felt, meticulously controlled reveries "The Long Day Closes" and "Distant Voices, Still Lives" and the gorgeous personal essay "Of Time and the City." Now 66, he sees the past...

    Tags: Joe Wright, Drama (genre), Terence Davies, Samuel Barber, Atonement (movie)

    8. Mar 7, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  8. Gift Theater tries, but 'Hell' is tough to fit in a storefront

    THEATER REVIEW: &quot;Absolute Hell" at Gift Theatre &#9733;&#9733;&#189; ... Sheldon Patinkin's Gift Theatre production, three hours and 15 minutes of mostly plot-free bohemian behavior in post-war London, is so ambitiously audacious that you find yourself gunning for it to succeed.
    With a cast of 21 actors crammed into the minuscule Gift Theatre, Sheldon Patinkin's production of Rodney Ackland's loquacious but fascinating play, "Absolute Hell," three hours and 15 minutes of mostly plot-free bohemian behavior in post-war London, is...

    Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), London (England), Winston Churchill, Entertainment, Labour Party (UK)

    9. Apr 25, 2011 | Chicago Tribune

  9. Cromer's 'House of Blue Leaves' on Broadway has the darkness but needs the light

    The Theater Loop
    Ben Stiller and Edie Falco star in director David Cromer’s Broadway production of "The House of Blue Leaves." BROADWAY REVIEW: "The House of Blue Leaves" at the Walter Kerr Theatre; 212-239-6200 or www.houseofblueleaves.com NEW YORK — In his...
    10. Jun 28, 2009 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. 10 things you might not know about desperadoes

    &quot;Public Enemies," starring Johnny Depp as bank robber John Dillinger, opens in movie theaters Wednesday. Suddenly, outlaws are in. Here are 10 arresting facts that might have escaped your attention:
    Tribune staff reporter
    "Public Enemies," starring Johnny Depp as bank robber John Dillinger, opens in movie theaters Wednesday. Suddenly, outlaws are in. Here are 10 arresting facts that might have escaped your attention: 1. A Wyoming ne'er-do-well known as "Big Nose George"...

    Tags: Crimes, Billy the Kid, Paul Newman, Chess Playing, India

    11. Aug 18, 2006 |Story| WNEP

  11. Little League Excitement

    Friday, August 18, 2:31 p.m. By Bianca Barr The Little League World Series begins in South Williamsport Friday. For the second year in a row the city of Williamsport helped kick off the celebration. The Little League teams jammed into the back of...
    12. Sep 30, 2005 |Story| Calendar Live

  12. Oscars: 'Jones,' Poitier, Neal

    <i>From The Times: April 14, 1964</i>
    From The Times: April 14, 1964 The 2,600-odd members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spread their statuettes around much more liberally than was expected during the 36th annual Oscar presentation ceremony Monday evening in the Santa...

    Tags: Patty Duke, Ed Begley, MGM Inc., Science and Technology, Sammy Davis Jr.

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