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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: Music Theater, Theater, Radio, Entertainment Events, Human Interest
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Review: With 'Tosca,' Los Angeles Opera goes for grand
An essay in the program for Los Angeles Opera's new production of "Tosca," which opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, begins by quoting Benjamin Britten on Puccini's opera. The British composer, Joseph Berger writes, was "'sickened'...
Tags: Music, The Getty, Entertainment, Les Miserables (musical), Entertainment Events
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Malibu retreat with four-star pedigree for sale
Actor Nick Nolte has put a Malibu compound up for sale that has seen a galaxy of stars come through its arched entryway. Besides Nolte, other notables to have owned the house include comedian Tommy Chong, Don Felder of the Eagles and music producer...
Tags: Drake Hogestyn, Music Theater, Harvey Mudd College, The Company You Keep (movie), Celebrities
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Jed Bernstein, Broadway producer, to head Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York has tapped a prominent producer from the world of commercial Broadway to serve as its next president. Jed Bernstein, whose credits include the successful revivals of "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Hair," is...
Tags: Music Theater, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, David Koch, Theater, Entertainment Events
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Attendance for Broadway touring shows continues to dip
Attendance at touring Broadway shows nationwide dropped for the second straight season, according to a newly released report from the Broadway League. The report said that 12.7 million people attended a touring show in the 2011-12 season, down from 13.1...
Tags: Music Theater, Theater, Entertainment Events, Les Miserables (movie), Broadway Theater
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Review: A night of Riehm rattles and excites
Although Pier Paolo Pasolini was best known as an Italian filmmaker, he called himself a poet and his Wikipedia entry begins by also describing him as a journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, columnist, actor, painter,...
Tags: Music, Moscow (Russia), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Entertainment, Entertainment Events
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Tony Award nominations! YouTube's FreddieW makes an impression.
After the coffee. Before remembering that whatever happens today will be a distant memory a week from now. The Skinny: I got to see an ostrich up close last night. I don't know why ostriches and camels are my two favorite animals. These days it doesn'...
Tags: Tom Hanks, Social Media, Entertainment Events, Barry Diller, All My Children (tv program)
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Tony Awards: Cyndi Lauper's 'Kinky Boots' on top with 13 nominations
NEW YORK -- “Kinky Boots,” the adaptation of the cross-dressing comedy film with a book by Harvey Fierstein and score by Cyndi Lauper, led the pack when Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, leading all shows with 13 nods....
Tags: Music Theater, Theater, Celebrities, Entertainment Events, Broadway Theater
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Diahann Carroll leads the way on stage and screen
Groundbreaking actress-singer Diahann Carroll ("Julia," "Claudine") was an 18-year-old New York model when her singing career took off. Her break came when she won a talent show called, appropriately enough, "Chance of a Lifetime" in January 1954 on the...
Tags: Music Theater, Theater, Celebrities, Entertainment Events, Otto Preminger
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Tonys 2013: 'Vanya and Sonia,' 'Lucky Guy' lead play nominees
NEW YORK -- The Tony nominations announcement Tuesday morning brought good news to Christopher Durang’s dysfunctional-family tale "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and the late Nora Ephron's period journalism weepie "Lucky Guy" with the two...
Tags: Theater, Tom Hanks, Amy Morton, Entertainment Events, Broadway Theater
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Tonys 2013: Tom Hanks seeks a new kind of prize
NEW YORK -- Can Tom Hanks add a Tony Award to his crowded mantle? That’s one of many questions that emerged after the Tony committee announced its acting nominations Tuesday morning, with Hanks' name on the shortlist for best actor in a play for...
Tags: Music Theater, Laurie Metcalf, Tom Hanks, Holland Taylor, Amy Morton
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New Edward Albee play postponed -- for the second time
Even Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights are prone to self-doubt. Edward Albee, the Tony Award-winning writer of 1962's “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” was supposed to see his newest work, “Laying an Egg,” debut off-...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events, Lois Smith, Arts and Culture
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