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    Apr 9, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Theater review: 'The Bungler' at A Noise Within

    Culture Monster
    Charlotte Stoudt reviews A Noise Within's effervescent staging of Molière's "The Bungler"...
    2. Sep 4, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. A literary stamp to these three houses

    In 1937, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay came close to refusing an honorary degree from New York University when she learned she had been excluded from a reception for male recipients of the doctorate at the Waldorf-Astoria and instead was to have a quiet dinner with the chancellor's wife.
    In 1937, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay came close to refusing an honorary degree from New York University when she learned she had been excluded from a reception for male recipients of the doctorate at the Waldorf-Astoria and instead was to have a quiet...

    Tags: Astoria, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Gilded Age, Greenwich Village, Tour Operations Industry

    3. Jul 7, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. A Noise Within announces its first season in its new theater in Pasadena

    Culture Monster
    A Noise Within will open its new home in Pasadena with a season of Shakespeare and other old favorites as well as some less frequently performed works. The classical repertory company -- which will be marking its 20th anniversary --......
    4. May 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'

    The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
    Los Angeles Times
    The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...

    Tags: Diplomacy, Walt Whitman, Entertainment, Chile, Samuel Beckett

    5. Sep 3, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Music review: 'Candide' at the Hollywood Bowl

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    "Candide" -- failed book by Lillian Hellman, delicious lyrics by Richard Wilbur, inspired score by Leonard Bernstein -- opens on Dec. 1, 1956, in New York and closes two months later after 73 performances. Broadway applies the f-word. A flop?......
    6. Sep 2, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. George Hitchcock dies at 96; poet and publisher of the literary magazine 'kayak'

    George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor whose iconoclastic vision as publisher of the literary magazine "kayak" helped free American poetry from mid-20th century orthodoxies and provided an early forum for such distinguished writers as Robert Bly, Raymond Carver and Philip Levine, died Friday at his home in Eugene, Ore. He was 96.
    George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor whose iconoclastic vision as publisher of the literary magazine "kayak" helped free American poetry from mid-20th century orthodoxies and provided an early forum for such distinguished...

    Tags: Kenneth Rexroth, University of California, Philosophy, Health, Health and Medical Professionals

    7. Dec 13, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Canadian couple drive modern twist on Moliere farce

    THEATER REVIEW: "The School for Lies" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater ★★★ ... 'Tis the season for sucking up at company holiday parties. Or, as Frank, the central character in David Ives' "The School for Lies" would put it, this is prime time, baby.
    'Tis the season for sucking up at company holiday parties — or, as Frank, the central character in David Ives' "The School for Lies" would put it, this is prime time, baby, for "two-faced pestilential etiquette." Perchance you indulged in a little...

    Tags: Mormonism, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Christianity, Navy Pier, Entertainment

    8. Oct 10, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  8. New Anthology Celebrates Two Centuries of Connecticut Poetry

    If states were poets, California would be big and craggy like Robinson Jeffers, but who would Connecticut be? A consensus of Nutmeg Staters might say Wallace Stevens, the stolid, conservative insurance executive by day who, in his spare hours, transmogrified into the Emperor of Ice Cream and helped usher modernism into American literature.
    If states were poets, California would be big and craggy like Robinson Jeffers, but who would Connecticut be? A consensus of Nutmeg Staters might say Wallace Stevens, the stolid, conservative insurance executive by day who, in his spare hours,...

    Tags: University of Pennsylvania, West Hartford, Dick Allen, Arts and Culture, Literature

    9. Jul 30, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  9. Review: Tartuffe at Westport Country Playhouse

    <strong>Tartuffe</strong>
    Tartuffe Directed by David Kennedy. English translation by Richard Wilbur. Through Aug. 5 at the Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, Westport. (203) 227-4177; http://www.westportplayhouse.org   In the past two decades, there’ve been...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Theater, Tommy Tune, Entertainment, Arts and Culture

    10. Jul 24, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  10. "Tartuffe" At Westport Playhouse To Get Additional Performance

    <strong>Westport Country Playhouse</strong> announces that due to ticket demand for its current production of <strong>Moli&egrave;re&rsquo;s&nbsp; &ldquo;Tartuffe,&rdquo; </strong>an extra performance has been added on Sunday, Aug. 5, at 3 p.m.&nbsp;
    Hartford Courant
    Westport Country Playhouse announces that due to ticket demand for its current production of Molière’s  “Tartuffe,” an extra performance has been added on Sunday, Aug. 5, at 3 p.m.  The Playhouse production, now playing through Aug. 4,...

    Tags: Entertainment Events, Tony Awards, Westport Country Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Marc Kudisch

    11. May 30, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  11. Poet Richard Wilbur helps kick off the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival on June 1

    <strong>Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Kickoff Weekend</strong>
    Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Kickoff Weekend June 1-3, Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, (860) 677-4787, hillstead.org.   It would be hard to find a more accomplished living poet in the world today than Richard Wilbur. In addition to...

    Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Entertainment, Elizabeth Bishop, Music Industry, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)

    12. May 25, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  12. Poetry's Rock Stars Light Up Sunken Garden

    When hundreds of people showed up for a outdoor poetry reading in Farmington in 1992, causing a traffic jam, "it dawned on us," said an organizer, "this was going to be a yearly thing." That was an understatement.
    When hundreds of people showed up for a outdoor poetry reading in Farmington in 1992, causing a traffic jam, "it dawned on us," said an organizer, "this was going to be a yearly thing." That was an understatement. That first blockbuster evening has...

    Tags: Billy Collins, James Merrill, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), Arts and Culture, Mary Cassatt

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