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Live performances learn to live with noisy phones
It was the cellphone heard 'round the world.
A bouncy marimba ring tone on an iPhone erupted during the final soft, almost unbearably poignant minutes of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 at a recent New York Philharmonic concert in Lincoln Center.
Music...Tags: Coughing, Culture, Lawyers, Opera (genre), Gustav Mahler
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Tapping into the relevant grit of 'American Buffalo'
Taped to the side of the counter in the junk shop that forms the set for David Mamet's "American Buffalo" at Center Stage is a vintage sign: "People who advocate violence should be shot."
Most people in the audience will never see that sign, or...Tags: Music, Boardwalk Empire (tv program), HBO (tv network)
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For Baltimore set designers, no detail is too small
Set designer Daniel Ettinger and technical director Bill Jamieson spent months painstakingly constructing a world accurate down to the tiniest detail, from the wallpaper pattern to the electrical sockets.
And they weren't one whit less meticulous, even...Tags: Tony Awards, Celebrities, Television, Concerts, Windermere
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Mamet's messy 'Buffalo' roams again at Centerstage
The messy emotions in David Mamet's "American Buffalo" find material expression in the 1970s-era junk that fills every messy square foot of a Chicago pawn shop. Some of this clutter even hangs from the front of the stage, as if threatening to spill over... -
For Cosby, the audience makes the performance
In Baltimore in recent months, Bill Cosby's name has been associated more with politics than with comedy, or even Jell-O.
In December, he was the marquee attraction at a $4,000-a-plate dinner to benefit Baltimore mayoral candidate Otis Rolley.
But...Tags: Comedy (genre), David Letterman, Otis Rolley, Mark Twain, Henry Kissinger
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Centerstage gets a fresh start with a topical lineup
The big news in Baltimore theater this season is the arrival of British-born Kwame Kwei-Armah, who is taking the helm as the new artistic director of Centerstage (700 N. Calvert St., 410-332-0033). Kwei-Armah, who replaces Irene Lewis, has said he's...Tags: Bob Fosse, Minority Groups, Pinocchio (movie), Music Theater, Arts
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Next season at Center Stage: 'Jazz,' Sondheim, Mamet
The theme of Center Stage's 2011-2012 season might be summed up as rhythm — from the distinctive beat of "Jazz," a world premiere adapted from the Toni Morrison novel of that name, to the percussive profanity of David Mamet's "American Buffalo";...Tags: Minority Groups, Music Theater, Westport, Toni Morrison, African Americans
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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Bodies of Water, George O'Brien, Heads of State, Heather Donahue
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It's elementary, Oscar
LA Times Film CriticSherlock Holmes never tried his hand at Oscar prognosticating, but indications are he would have had a flair for it. "When you have eliminated the impossible," the great detective said, "whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." As it...Tags: Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe, Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Awards and Prizes
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Catch of a Lifetime
Sun StaffThe Ball rests inside a clear plastic cube in the hands of a man wearing a black suit and a face like he's auditioning for the Secret Service. This baseball was just any baseball until Eddie Murray hit it into Camden Yards' right-field bleachers for...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, New York Mets, Eddie Murray, Auction Service, Television
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The film that wowed Barry Levinson
Sun Movie CriticWhen Barry Levinson plays host for On the Waterfront at the Senator Theatre Thursday night -- the opening attraction for this year's Maryland Film Festival -- he hopes audiences will feel the same thrill he experienced as a 12-year-old seeing it in 1954...Tags: Elvis Presley, Rachel Weisz, Rod Steiger, Alfred Hitchcock, Baltimore Orioles
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Oh, the drama
Sun Arts WriterTwo Weeks Before the Debut of Her New Play, Snakes: "Don't tell anyone," Cherie Vogelstein confides, "but I haven't written it yet." That's dismaying, given the importance of the event. It's mid-fall, and Snakes is to premiere in New York City at the...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Judaism, Music Theater, Nobel Prize Awards, Arthur Schnitzler
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