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Tony Awards 2013: 'Pippin,' Christopher Durang gain momentum
Like the Oscars, the Tony Awards are preceded each year by a bevy of award shows that renders the main event something of a foregone conclusion. This Broadway season, many of the front-runners have become clear relatively quickly, with the big-top-...
Tags: Ceremonies, Entertainment, Broadway Theater, Academy Awards, Theater
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Shakespeare's sonnets get a new iPad, iPhone app
William Shakespeare is believed to have written 154 sonnets during his life. Carrying around the complete volume has never been physically burdensome since each poem is a mere 14 lines. But a new application for the Apple iPad and iPhone is seeking to...
Tags: New Products, Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Poetry, Apple iTunes
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John Caird brings blockbuster cred to L.A. Opera's 'Tosca'
John Caird, who's directing the L.A. Opera production of "Tosca" that opens Saturday, played crucial roles in launching two of the biggest stage blockbusters of modern times. The fact that the British director remains somewhat below the radar, at...
Tags: Literature, Entertainment, Les Miserables (movie), Jane Eyre (movie), Theater
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Bertie Carvel gives his all as 'Matilda's' demonic Miss Trunchbull
NEW YORK — Miss Agatha Trunchbull, headmistress of Crunchem Hall school, hates pigtails. They're good only to serve as handles by which she can toss a rebellious child into the air — a feat this one-time Olympic hammer-throwing champion...
Tags: Sherlock (tv program), World War I (1914-1918), Entertainment, Matthew Warchus, Broadway Theater
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'Matilda: The Musical' on Broadway: What did the critics think?
“Matilda: The Musical,” the stage incarnation of Roald Dahl’s famed storybook, made its Broadway debut Thursday at the Shubert Theatre. The London import, minted by the Royal Shakespeare Company, follows a troubled girl genius whose...
Tags: Entertainment, Literature, Broadway Theater, Theater, Entertainment Events
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Richard Griffiths dies at 65; actor appeared in 'Harry Potter' and 'The History Boys'
Richard Griffiths, the nimble British character actor best known to American audiences as cantankerous, wizard-fearing Uncle Vernon in the blockbuster Harry Potter films, died Thursday at a hospital in Coventry, England. He was 65. The cause was...
Tags: United Kingdom, Entertainment, Nicholas Hytner, Fiction, Obituaries
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Shakespeare: all about the pounds and pence, not the poetry?
Oh, Will, you bad, bad Bard. All the time I’ve been defending you from the elitists and snobs who refuse to credit the idea that you, a mere glover’s son, could have penned some of the most lyrical passages and memorable characters in the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Mahmoud Abbas, Human Interest
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‘Hobbit’ star Richard Armitage hopes film will stand ‘test of time’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesFor his turn as dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” actor Richard Armitage drew ...... -
Exhibition looks at Maurice Sendak in the wild
The first touring exhibition of Maurice Sendak's illustrations since his death at 83 last May is making its debut at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. It's called "Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, 50 Works, 50 Reasons," but a more apt title might have been...
Tags: Artists, Fine Artists, Arts, New Britain, Arts and Culture
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Scientists identify remains as those of King Richard III
LONDON -- More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had definitively identified a skeleton unearthed in central England last summer as that of Richard III, the medieval king portrayed by William Shakespeare as...
Tags: Science and Technology, England
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Richard III found, but the truth may still be missing
In America, we paved paradise and put up a parking lot. In Britain, they put up a parking lot and paved over a king. As my colleague Henry Chu reported: More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Indiana Jones (fictional character), England, Al Gore
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Richard III horror story: Axed in head, stabbed in rear, bones dug up
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThis post has been updated. Please see note at the bottom for details. King Richard III has not been treated ......
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