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Play Reading Week at Danville community theater will feature more than a half-dozen theatrical works
jenb@amnews.comWest T. Hill Community Theatre’s annual Play Reading week will be March 6-9. The four-day event is an opportunity for the community to read excerpts of the plays the theater’s personnel are considering for the 2011-2012 season. The readings...Tags: Entertainment, Christmas, Holidays, Education, Fiction
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Diverse mix for Everyman Theatre's last season on Charles St.
A year from now, Everyman Theatre will begin packing for the big move to a freshly renovated venue on the west side of town. To help stem any regrets, the title of the last show in the company's current Charles Street location will carry a familiar...Tags: Entertainment, Charles Street, Edward Albee, Noel Coward, African Americans
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Merry Christmas! Ralphie lands at 8 p.m. Friday on TBS
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe best Christmas movies bring back the memories. And television will supply the fare for a long sentimental journey, if you're inclined.... -
First Screen Bond Dies at 89
Times Staff WriterBarry Nelson, a Broadway leading man who launched his career at MGM in the 1940s and earned a niche in show-business history as the first actor to play British secret agent James Bond — as an American named Jimmy Bond — in a live television...Tags: Entertainment, University of California, Berkeley, Debbie Reynolds, Celebrities, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Red Buttons Dies at 87
Zap2It.comRed Buttons, the impish former burlesque comic who became an early TV sensation and an Academy Award-winning character actor during a career that spanned more than seven decades, has died. He was 87. Buttons died today at his Century City home after a...Tags: George W. Bush, Entertainment, Perry Como, Bars and Clubs, Celebrities
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Arena Players, Center Stage deserve to take bows
Sun Theater CriticThe new theater season marks milestone anniversaries for two Baltimore theaters. Center Stage turns 40, and Arena Players, billed as "the nation's oldest continuously operating African-American theater," turns 50. The fare at both is eclectic, and,...Tags: Entertainment, Edward Albee, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Valerie Harper, African Americans
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Theater review, 'The Great Waltz' at Light Opera Works
Tribune Chief CriticTo its credit, and to the delight of its audience, Light Opera Works is performing "The Great Waltz" in a style that went out of fashion at least 50 years ago. And why not? This latter-day poperetta, fashioned from the music of the Johann Strausses,...Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, Edvard Grieg, Music Theater, Opera (genre)
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'Fair' revival shows promise of more to come
When a new production of a performing arts masterpiece truly revives its subject, it is able to remind us, sometimes in fresh and different ways, why the work came to be called a masterpiece in the first place. "My Fair Lady," first presented 45 years...Tags: Entertainment, Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn, Music Theater, Jonathan Pryce
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Theater review, 'As Thousands Cheer' at Illinois Theatre Center
Special to the TribuneWhen the great Ethel Waters appeared at the Music Box Theater on Broadway in Hassart Short's production of the revue "As Thousands Cheer" in 1933, she became the first African-American to get equal billing with Caucasian performers on the Great White Way....Tags: Entertainment, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., White House, Joan Crawford, Music Theater
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To review or not to review?
In Moss Hart's famous 1948 comedy "Light Up the Sky," a group of paranoid producers labor out of town trying to fix a flawed but embryonic Broadway show before it moves to New York. The tryout is taking place in Boston -- but for all that the principals...Tags: Entertainment, Twyla Tharp, Columbia University, Goodman Theatre, Reviews
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What's next at Next
Tribune arts reporterLast month Kate Buckley announced her intention to leave Next Theatre; now the Evanston-based troupe has whittled down to five its list of applicants for the vacant position of artistic director. But Robert Scogin, Next's current managing director and the...Tags: Ben Jonson, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Sophia Loren, Comedy (genre), Northwestern University
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Delving into theater creatures
Frank Galati, a dyed-in-the-wool creature of the American theater, loves to expound on why people who work in show business are weird. "We go to work when everybody else goes out to play," mused the accomplished actor-director-adapter the other day....Tags: Entertainment, Peter Hall, Goodman Theatre, Judi Dench, George Cukor
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