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Baltimore's new star makes a debut tonight
Sun Arts WriterWith its opening gala tonight, the $62 million France-Merrick Performing Arts Center isn't simply introducing the lovingly restored 1914 vaudeville palace at its center, the Hippodrome Theatre. It is also declaring its intention of making Baltimore once...Tags: Arts, Classical Music (genre), Theater, Les Misérables (musical), Laurence Olivier
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Jonathan Groff joins 'Red': Play opens Aug. 1. at Mark Taper Forum
VarietyJonathan Groff ("Glee") will join Alfred Molina in Michael Grandage's Tony-winning Donmar Warehouse production of "Red" at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum, opening Aug. 1. Groff, whose stage work includes "Spring Awakening" and his London debut opposite Simon...Tags: Mark Rothko, French Literature, Alfred Molina, Anne-Marie Duff, Jonathan Groff
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Cast announced for Mad Cow's 'Dancing at Lughnasa'
Mad Cow Theatre has announced the cast for its upcoming production of "Dancing at Lughnasa," directed by Katrina Ploof.
The play, by Brian Friel, is the study of five unmarried sisters who live in a modest cottage in Ireland's County Donegal. Welcoming...Tags: Mad Cow Theater, Republic of Ireland, Dance, Entertainment Events
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Theater review: 'Dancing at Lughnasa' from Mad Cow Theatre
There's a beautifully disturbing undercurrent of change in Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa."
It's 1936 in rural Ireland, and 7-year-old Michael goes to school now. Radios are displacing gramophones as a source of entertainment. And the world order...Tags: Mad Cow Theater, Republic of Ireland, Dance, Dance, Entertainment Events
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'Dancing at Lughnasa' next from Mad Cow Theatre
WHAT: Imminent changes are unavoidable for five sisters in "Dancing at Lughnasa," the Tony award-winning play by Brian Friel. Set in 1936, the play examines a family living together on a rural farm in Ballybeg, Ireland. The Mundy sisters are challenged...Tags: Mad Cow Theater, Dance, Entertainment Events, Customs and Tradition, Customs and Tradition
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'Molly Sweeney' at the Long Wharf
Molly Sweeney
Through Oct. 16. Long Wharf Theatre, Stage II, 222 Sargeant Drive. (203) 787-4282, longwharf.org.
There are none so blind," the proverb has it, "as those who will not see."
This bit of hoary wisdom receives a dramatic staging in...Tags: Long Wharf Theatre
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Book review: 'Come to the Edge'
Los Angeles TimesThe most telling moment in "Come to the Edge," Christina Haag's memoir of her love affair with John F. Kennedy Jr., comes after his death in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard. There are two memorial services, one for dignitaries and family, the other...Tags: SoHo, Book, Caroline Kennedy, Daryl Hannah, CNN (tv network)
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PASSINGS
Anna Manahan Irish actress won a Tony Anna Manahan, 84, a leading Irish actress who won a Tony Award in 1998 for her role as the nasty mother Mag in "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" on Broadway, died Sunday in her hometown of Waterford, Ireland, after a...Tags: Theater, Film Festivals, Dancing, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum
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Theater review: 'The Walworth Farce' at Freud Playhouse
Culture MonsterFamily lore isn’t just innocently passed down. It’s carefully scripted, regularly rehearsed and slyly refurbished when needed. Ever notice how the stories with the slipperiest facts tend to get revived most often as if in fear that their protective... -
Frank McCourt's career rose from 'Ashes'
"An autobiographical fact," the Irish playwright Brian Friel once remarked, "may be a lie and no less true for all of that."
Frank McCourt, who died Sunday just a month shy of his 79th birthday, would have appreciated Friel's sentiment, for "Angela's...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Republic of Ireland, New York City, Christianity, Roman Catholicism
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High marks for 'The Skin of Our Teeth' at Artistic Home; 'Living Quarters' by Strangeloop
The Theater LoopKerry Reid gives ★★★½ to Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" at The Artistic Home through March 21; and ★★★ to Strangeloop Theatre's production of Brian Friel's "Living Quarters," through March 14 at Trap Door Theatre. Read her double.....
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