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Tried and true shows dominate the season's Broadway offerings
linda.winer@newsday.comIt could be the best of times; it might be the worst of times. No, really. A musical adaptation of"A Tale of Two Cities" - think "Les Miz" by way of Charles Dickens - kicks off the hectic and ambitious fall season in a couple of weeks. More to the point,...Tags: Jack Benny, Tom Cruise, Arthur Miller, Charles Dickens, Peter Shaffer
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Broadway this fall: 'Shrek,' 'Equus' and 'Cities'
Newsday Staff WriterIt could be the best of times; it might be the worst of times. No, really. A musical adaptation of "A Tale of Two Cities" -- think "Les Miz" by way of Charles Dickens -- kicks off the hectic and ambitious fall season in a couple of weeks. More to the...Tags: Dianne Wiest, Literature, Central Park, Jack Benny, David Mamet
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Tad Mosel, 86; TV writer won Pulitzer for Broadway's 'All the Way Home'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTad Mosel, a leading writer of live television dramas in the 1950s who won a Pulitzer Prize for "All the Way Home," his 1960 Broadway dramatization of James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family," has died. He was 86. Mosel, who had cancer and lived in...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Lillian Gish, Mass Media, Minority Groups, Literature
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'Catered Affair' gets 12 Drama Desk nods
"A Catered Affair," a musical about one family's complicated wedding plans, received a leading 12 Drama Desk nominations Monday, honoring the best of the 2007-2008 New York theater season. It was followed by "Adding Machine," an adaptation of Elmer Rice'...Tags: Tom Stoppard, Lincoln Center, Mel Brooks, Literature, Kevin Kline
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Still a step ahead
TRIBUNE CRITICHorton Foote is talking about the great American theatrical triumvirate of Tennessee Williams, William Inge and Arthur Miller. They were his peers. Williams was born in 1911. Inge, 1913. Miller, 1915. And Foote, 1916. In Wharton, small-town Texas....Tags: Literature, Arthur Miller, Awards and Prizes, Music Theater, Academy Awards
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Excitement marks this season's stage productions
Tribune theater criticIf you know and love the Chicago theater, you'll doubtless be expecting a lot of interesting new shows in the upcoming winter and spring seasons. Why should this year be any different? But peruse the following -- woefully incomplete -- list of 10 of the...Tags: Samuel Beckett, Lake Shore Drive, John Doyle, Goodman Theatre, Broadway
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Non-profit, commercial divisions melt
Tribune theater criticIn theatrical lore, the commercial producer and the non-profit theater company are worlds apart. The former is synonymous with mercurial, cigar-chewing entrepreneurship; the latter is fulfilling a sacred social mission to serve and protect the arts....Tags: Harold Pinter, Goodman Theatre, Broadway, David Mamet, Steppenwolf Theatre
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No time for cigars for director Denzel
DENZEL WASHINGTON has the slightly dazed look of a man in the home stretch.
"It's all good," he says, flashing that $20-million grin in a postproduction suite on the Sony lot. "I'm not tired. Well, I'm tired, but I'm happy."
The two-time Oscar winner is...Tags: John Travolta, Cinema Industry, Sony Corp., Denzel Washington, Oprah Winfrey
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The Trip to Bountiful
Meanwhile, Horton Foote's classic "The Trip to Bountiful" has opened Signature's fifteenth anniversary season. This touching, naturalistic tale of an aging woman in Texas of 1953 continues to resonate sharply, especially with the fine directorial...Tags: Windham (Windham, Connecticut)
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The 101 Greatest Screenplays
Zap2It.comWhat do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...Tags: Dashiell Hammett, L Frank Baum, Paul Schrader, Jerzy Kosinski, Curtis Hanson
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Rebel in a bungalow town
Times Staff WriterPlaywright and screenwriter Horton Foote reappears in the kitchen of Ron Bernstein's Hollywood bungalow, where a few other friends of the film-rights agent collect around a table composed just so with voluptuous fruits, delicate French pastries and...Tags: Interior Design, Barbara King, Furniture, Candace Bushnell, Imperial and Royal Matters
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