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Tony Awards 2012: 'Clybourne Park' by Bruce Norris wins best play
"Clybourne Park," the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama by Bruce Norris, won the Tony for new play. The critically acclaimed play, which ran at Playwrights Horizons in New York, the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the Mark Taper...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Tony Awards, Arts and Culture
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Tony Awards 2012: From L.A. to the Great White Way
The Tony Awards may be the toast of Broadway, but there were Champagne glasses being raised for some of Sunday's victors who have roots in Southern California. The most noteworthy production was "Clybourne Park," which was named best play. The Pulitzer...
Tags: Peter and the Starcatcher (play), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment, Leap of Faith (musical), Judith Light
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Sherman Hemsley dies at 74; star of TV's 'The Jeffersons'
Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of television viewers as Archie Bunker's bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in"All in the Family" and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, "The Jeffersons," has died. He was...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Comedy (genre), Celebrities, Queens (New York City), Upper East Side
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Tony Awards: 'Clybourne Park,' 'Once' are big winners
Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a sharp-toothed satirical drama about the vagaries of race and real estate, won for best play, and "Once," a starry-eyed romance centered on an Irish street musician and a Czech immigrant flower seller, topped the best...
Tags: Audra McDonald, AIDS, Entertainment, Concerts, Broadway Theater
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Theater review: 'A Raisin in the Sun' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Culture MonsterThe Ebony Repertory Theatre production of "A Raisin in Sun," directed by Phylicia Rashad, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.... -
Theater review: 'Clybourne Park' at the Mark Taper Forum
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Ivy grows in students' 'Raisin in the Sun' garden
L.A. at HomeCulver City High School art students were inspired by "A Raisin in the Sun" to create a garden art installation that's outside the Kirk Douglas Theatre, where the classic American play is being performed.... -
Jordan Roth, 'Clybourne Park's' Broadway producer, makes West Coast swing
Culture MonsterBroadway producer Jordan Roth was sitting in a downtown Los Angeles hotel lobby late Friday afternoon, laughing and giving a broad wave of his hand at the suggestion that he’d stumbled upon a new showbiz corollary to the “you break...... -
'Margo Veil,' 'Raisin in the Sun' top L.A. Drama Critics awards
Culture MonsterThe Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle handed out its annual awards at a ceremony Monday at A Noise Within in Pasadena. The evening's biggest winners were "Margo Veil," a new play by Len Jenkins that was performed at the Odyssey...... -
Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Clybourne Park' paired with 'Raisin in the Sun' by Center Theatre Group
Culture Monster"Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' drama that won the Pulitzer Prize this year, will make its Los Angeles debut at the Mark Taper Forum in the spring of 2012. Center Theatre Group said it will pair the production with a separate...... -
Influences: Actress Anna Deavere Smith
Culture MonsterLet Me Down Easy," at the Broad Stage through July 31, is Anna Deveare Smith's exploration of the nation's healthcare crisis.... -
Mark Taper Forum's 2012 season may feature two Broadway imports
Culture MonsterThe Mark Taper Forum's 2012 season will feature one world premiere and five plays that already have either been seen on Broadway or have won a Pulitzer Prize. The shows include this year's Pulitzer Prize winning play, "Claybourne Park," and last year's...
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