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    Aug 24, 2008 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  1. Theater season preview

    Sentinel Staff Writer
    Amway Shakespeare Opportunity Twitter of the Shrew will be at a site to be announced. The Shakespeariment will be at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park, 101 N. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Details: 407-792-9421. Twitter of the Shrew: Feb. 14....

    Tags: Joan Didion, Orange County (Florida), Oscar Hammerstein, Bodies of Water, George Gershwin

    2. Sep 9, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. L.A. Opera's 'The Fly' is a monster mash

    Two years ago, a bass-baritone covered in gook stalked the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. That was the medieval monster in Elliot Goldenthal's &quot;Grendel," commissioned by Los Angeles Opera. Sunday afternoon, a baritone covered in gook again stalked the Chandler stage. This time it was Brundle, the scientist hero transmogrified into a <i>Musca domestica</i> in Howard Shore's "The Fly," inspired by the 1986 David Cronenberg horror film -- the latest opera commissioned by the company.
    Times Music Critic
    Two years ago, a bass-baritone covered in gook stalked the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. That was the medieval monster in Elliot Goldenthal's "Grendel," commissioned by Los Angeles Opera. Sunday afternoon, a baritone covered in gook again...

    Tags: David Cronenberg, Music Theater, Vincent Price, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)

    3. Jul 21, 2008 |Story| AM New York

  3. Kicking a Dead Horse

    No one can accuse &quot;Kicking a Dead Horse" of not living up to its title.
    amNewYork Theater critic
    No one can accuse "Kicking a Dead Horse" of not living up to its title. Less than five minutes into Sam Shepard's drama, a male actor is literally kicking a giant prop that resembles a dead horse. A booming sound effect even echoes every time that he...

    Tags: Samuel Beckett, Stephen Rea, Central Park, Sam Shepard

    4. Jun 11, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. 'A Thousand Words' writers hope it's the start of something big

    Stephen Sondheim and Georges Seurat. John Guare and Wassily Kandinsky. Edward Albee and Louise Nevelson.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Stephen Sondheim and Georges Seurat. John Guare and Wassily Kandinsky. Edward Albee and Louise Nevelson. Throughout theater history, writers have mined the works and biographies of artists to create such vastly different dramas as "Sunday in the Park...

    Tags: Lincoln Heights, John Guare, Edward Albee, Culture, Literature

    5. May 25, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. 'Hollywood Chinese' traces roles of Asians

    It really wasn't all that long ago Hollywood thought audiences wouldn't pay money to see a movie with an Asian lead. So producers would cast non-Asian actors -- replete with yellow-face makeup -- in these roles. In fact, Luise Rainer won a best actress Oscar as a Chinese peasant in 1937's &quot;The Good Earth," while Katharine Hepburn made a very Yankee-esque Chinese woman in 1944's "Dragon Seed." And many people adored "Charlie Chan," "Mr. Moto" and "Mr. Wong," mysteries in which the title characters were played by such white actors as Warner Oland, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    It really wasn't all that long ago Hollywood thought audiences wouldn't pay money to see a movie with an Asian lead. So producers would cast non-Asian actors -- replete with yellow-face makeup -- in these roles. In fact, Luise Rainer won a best actress...

    Tags: Joan Chen, Celebrity, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Minority Groups, Wayne Wang

    6. Dec 10, 2007 |Story| AM New York

  6. A messy 'Yellow Face' opens

    Look up &quot;yellow face" in the dictionary. It says "a yellow stylized representation of a smiling face." But for playwright David Henry Hwang, it refers to the practice of having a Caucasian pretend to be an Asian individual, rather like the infamous blackface practice that we now associate with minstrelsy and Al Jolson movies.
    Look up "yellow face" in the dictionary. It says "a yellow stylized representation of a smiling face." But for playwright David Henry Hwang, it refers to the practice of having a Caucasian pretend to be an Asian individual, rather like the infamous...

    Tags: New York Times, Al Jolson, Music Theater, Jonathan Pryce, Broadway

    7. May 13, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. True stories and other modern-day fantasies

    WE live in a time when reality has evidently trumped fiction. The novel loses readers, as narrative nonfiction and memoirs gain in popularity. Reality television, once derided as a fad, is apparently here to stay. Young people abandon the so-called old media to post anecdotes from their lives and videos of their activities online. In theater, docudramas, in which quotes from real people are dramatized, have become more present on our stages. Today, truth is not only stranger than fiction, it also seems to be more popular.
    Special to The Times
    WE live in a time when reality has evidently trumped fiction. The novel loses readers, as narrative nonfiction and memoirs gain in popularity. Reality television, once derided as a fad, is apparently here to stay. Young people abandon the so-called old...

    Tags: Invention and Innovation, News Media, Prosecution, Lillian Hellman, Minority Groups

    8. May 6, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Casting for the stage should be color-blind

    There's a wonderful old theater story about Laurence Olivier in the 1960s &#8212; he was playing in &quot;Othello" and receiving generally glowing notices opposite Frank Findlay and a young actress by the name of Maggie Smith. One night, however, as he stormed through the jealous general's odyssey, Olivier seemed to be on fire (not literally, of course, because that would be painful, and, while certainly an interesting if too literal take on the Moor's passionate histrionics, pretty "out there" as an interpretation of Shakespeare, even for the '60s).
    Special to The Times
    There's a wonderful old theater story about Laurence Olivier in the 1960s — he was playing in "Othello" and receiving generally glowing notices opposite Frank Findlay and a young actress by the name of Maggie Smith. One night, however, as he stormed...

    Tags: Metal and Mineral, Celebrity, Kevin Spacey, Neil LaBute, Brad Pitt

    9. Mar 16, 2007 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. With assist from playwright, 'Golden Child' draws you in

    Tribune theater critic
    Among the myriad challenges of David Henry Hwang's "Golden Child" is the need for a single actress to play both an elderly Chinese woman living out her waning years in America and a 10-year-old girl. And if that weren't enough for Chicago's nascent,...

    Tags: Celebrity, Family

    10. May 14, 2007 |Story| Envelope

  10. And the Tony Award nominees will be

    When nominations for the 61st annual Tony Awards are announced on Tuesday, there won't be as many glittery Hollywood names on the list as in seasons past. The close-knit theater community's frostiness last year toward Oscar winners Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington kept other A-listers from making the move east.
    When nominations for the 61st annual Tony Awards are announced on Tuesday, there won't be as many glittery Hollywood names on the list as in seasons past. The close-knit theater community's frostiness last year toward Oscar winners Julia Roberts and...

    Tags: John Doyle, Kevin Spacey, Billy Crudup, CBS Corp., Joan Didion

    11. Nov 3, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. 'Surfing DNA'

    The father, eager to pass along what he knows, is hunkered down with his 3-year-old.
    Times Staff Writer
    The father, eager to pass along what he knows, is hunkered down with his 3-year-old. "You can do it, Jo," he says encouragingly. His girl, Jodi, gives it a go. Shuffle-shuffle-hop-slap. Not quite right. He corrects her and she tries again. She does it...

    Tags: George Burns, Music Theater, Biotechnology Industry, Broadway

    12. May 10, 2006 |Story| AM New York

  12. 'Tarzan' is a train wreck

    Let's start with the good news: The visual effects of "Tarzan" are spectacular. And now the bad news: In every other capacity, "Tarzan" is a total train wreck of musical theater. As the latest installment of Disney's flourishing but artistically...

    Tags: Julie Taymor, Phil Collins, Music Theater, Railway Accidents, Broadway

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