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2008 Theater Guide: Bard, 'Boys' Highlight Fall Season
Courant Staff WriterPremieres from Athol Fugard and Paula Vogel, a new production from theater guru Peter Brook and a visit by the those popular "Jersey Boys" are just some of the many highlights of an exceptional theater season in Connecticut. Let the games begin The...Tags: House and Home, Tennessee Williams, Al Pacino, Reese Witherspoon, Television Industry
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Correction
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A new leader's new priorities at Celebration Theatre
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHE SCRIPT reigns supreme in the theater world. Actors learn their lines and recite them. So do artistic directors, who are known to cling to their publicity-vetted talking points like politicians in an election year. Michael A. Shepperd counts himself a...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Steppenwolf Theatre, West Hollywood, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Music Theater
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Long Wharf Hosts 'Coming Home' Premiere
Athol Fugard is coming "home" to New Haven with the world premiere of his latest work, "Coming Home" at the Long Wharf Theatre. Many of the works by the South African playwright, such as "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead," "The Road to Mecca," "A Place with the Pigs"...Tags: Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Highlights of what's new Off-Broadway
linda.winer@newsday.comThough much happens on Broadway this time of year, it's a mistake to let the commercial theater suck all the air out of the room. Here are a few highlights from Off-Broadway and other venues unfazed by the pressure-cooking schedule of the Tony Awards....Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Linda Lavin, Ellen Burstyn, Music Theater, Off-Broadway Theater
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'Thurgood,' 'Sizwe' shed light on political issues
linda.winer@newsday.comMy temptation is to protect political theater. Every time I hear someone groan "oh, no, not another play about Iraq"or "ho, hum, another docudrama about exonerated prisoners" or "save me from more tales of slaughter in Rwanda," my first impulse is to put...Tags: Film Festivals, Susan Sarandon, Tony Blair, Music Theater, George Bush
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Spring awakening
linda.winer@newsday.comHowever the wind blows, theatergoers know it's spring when Broadway gets crazy with openings. Whatever the calendar says about the year's end, commercial theater will be observing New Year's Eve on May 7 - the last night to open eligible shows before the...Tags: Glenn Close, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Faye Dunaway, Boeing Co., Tony Curtis
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South Africans in 'Sizwe Banzi Is Dead' at BAM
Special to NewsdaySouth African actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona were famous in 1976. For four years, they'd been performing "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" - a two-man play they created along with renowned playwright Athol Fugard - in township halls, churches and schools across...Tags: Celebrity, Film Festivals, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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'Sizwe' still fresh in new incarnation
linda.winer@newsday.comIt takes just 90 minutes, the two-man extravaganza that began a two-week visit to BAM's Harvey Theater Tuesday. The stage has little more than a table, a couple of chairs and an abstract background that - if you look hard - becomes a dust-up of red dirt...Tags: Celebrity, Family
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Films from Tsotsi’ to Catch a Fire’ delve deep into the heart of Africa and audiences are enjoying the journey
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThe title of the latest film out of Africa - "Catch a Fire" - might describe what's happening with cinema on that continent. With international filmmakers finding stories they want to tell there, and Hollywood taking an interest in serious films set...Tags: Cinema Industry, Meryl Streep, Cannes Film Festival, Phillip Noyce, Film Festivals
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'Tsotsi'
Zap2It.comWinner of this year's Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film and the People's Choice Award at last year's Toronto film festival, Gavin Hood's "Tsotsi" positions itself as an unblinking look into the bleak reality of a life lived in poverty and crime....Tags: Film Festivals
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Hood Keeps 'Tsotsi' Faith
Zap2It.comGavin Hood's boundless enthusiasm for "Tsotsi" is evident in his willingness to subject himself to not one, but two interviews to promote the Oscar-winning film's DVD release. After a technical gaffe erased the first 25 minutes we talked, Hood promptly...Tags: Celebrity
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