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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: Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Arts
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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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'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: Christiane Amanpour, Book, John F. Kennedy, Upper East Side, People (magazine)
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Theater review: 'The Walworth Farce' at Freud Playhouse
Culture MonsterFamily lore isnβt just innocently passed down. Itβs 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, Children, Roman Catholicism, New York City, Frank McCourt
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High marks for 'The Skin of Our Teeth' at Artistic Home; 'Living Quarters' by Strangeloop
The Theater LoopKerry Reid gives β β β Β½ to Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" at The Artistic Home through March 21; and β β β to Strangeloop Theatre's production of Brian Friel's "Living Quarters," through March 14 at Trap Door Theatre. Read her double..... -
How about another song?
Times Staff WriterThis year's Tony Awards had no host, no comedian; I forgot to check if there was even red carpet coverage beforehand. Was there? Was Ryan Seacrest out there, terrorizing some Royal Shakespearean with his E! voodoo mumbo jumbo? I'm not even sure why...Tags: Harry Connick Jr., Ryan Seacrest, Walt Whitman, Cyndi Lauper, Jessica Alba
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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: Movies, Sean O'Casey, Health and Safety at School, Gifts, Celebrities
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Friel-Chekhov composites come up short on close inspection
Tribune arts criticThe downstairs studio at the Victory Gardens can be a cruel and unforgiving place. Not only does the difference between actor and audience feel like inches, but even the slightest case of overacting is mercilessly punished. Delicate texts and few texts...Tags: James Barry
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Apple Tree's 'Vanya' is a summer freeze
Tribune arts criticFew plays are more out of sync with the sunny optimism of a Chicago June than Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," a hinterland, intergenerational play about rain, rotting hay, thick winter walls and the necessity the perverse pleasure, even of stoically...Tags: Noel Coward, Celebrities, Dining and Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages
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