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'American Horror Story Asylum' finale recap, 'Madness Ends'
After a season of blood-curdling thrills set in the 1960s, we've come full circle to modern times. Now we can all sleep easy for a few months. Unlike the Season 1 finale where viewers were left on a cliffhanger, the show's writers tied this season up...
Tags: Maury Povich, Heath Ledger, Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, Pancreatic Cancer
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2nd Star lends new energy to old favorite 'Fiddler on the Roof'
Almost 50 years after its 1964 Broadway opening, composer Jerry Bock's and lyricist Sheldon Harnick's "Fiddler on the Roof" continues to touch hearts with its hero's adherence to cherished religious traditions. The 40-member cast assembled by 2nd Star...
Tags: Comedy (genre), Celebrities, Theater, Broadway Theater, Music Theater
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Two for the show
The family that works on plays together, stays together.
OK, so that's not exactly the old adage. But it might become a new one if the husband-and-wife acting team of Jason Odell Williams and Charlotte Cohn continue on the same artistic road they've been...Tags: Television, Music Theater, Tennessee Williams, Racism, Howard Community College
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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: Patapsco, Les Miserables (musical), Romania, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Kathy Najimy
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Reed returns to Rep with a profile of 'Barrymore'
Think actress Drew Barrymore has had a pretty wild life? You should hear the stories about her granddad, stage and screen actor John Barrymore, whose life makes ol' Drew's look positively dull.
The elder Barrymore's story will be newly laid out for all...Tags: Drew Barrymore, Christopher Plummer, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Celebrities, Halloween
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Reed channels 'Barrymore' in must-see Rep show
For a limited time only, theater-goers have an opportunity to get two great actors for the price of one at Rep Stage. Yes, if you hurry, your ticket to "Barrymore" at Howard Community College amounts to a backstage pass to a rehearsal by the legendary...Tags: Cirrhosis, Music, Christopher Plummer, Trumbo (movie), Celebrities
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'Night Flight' still soars over today's movies
Vintage Hollywood movies were often belittled for taking liberties with history and glazing over the facts in their biographical dramas. But where are the upholders of truth when it comes to the current crop of American films? Movies by top-rank...Tags: Jason Statham, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Quentin Tarantino, Music Theater, Carla Gugino
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Rep Stage season looks at complex personalities, issues
The races and the sexes will get an intense look during Rep Stage's 2011-2012 season, the company's 19th.
Michael Stebbins, producing artistic director of the Equity theater in residence at Howard Community College, will guide the season-opening...Tags: Christopher Plummer, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Trumbo (movie), Howard Community College, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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The long, unhappy pageant of Mary Leona Gage
Sun ReporterOh, don't you remember, a long time ago When two little babes, their names I don't know Were stolen away one bright summer day And lost in the woods, I've heard people say --Traditional lullaby As a mother, she would sing it to her children. As a child,...Tags: Nature, Cinderella (fictional character), Television, Contracts, Health and Safety at Work
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'Upstream': A treasure, once thought lost, screens Wednesday
This Wednesday, thanks to the good folks at the Northwest Chicago Film Society, a John Ford film that hasn't been shown in Chicago since 1927 returns to the big screen. This "lovable mutt" of a comedy, as described by the NCFS' Kyle Westphal, is called...
Tags: The Iron Horse (movie), John Ford, New York City, Movies, New Zealand
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Christopher Plummer still has 'A Word or Two' to say
"First you're young. Then you're old. Then you're wonderful." — Alice Roosevelt Longworth STRATFORD, Canada — Christopher Plummer is in the wonderful phase of his career — and at 82 he's seizing the opportunity. In February, the six-...
Tags: W.H. Auden, Stratford, Beginners (movie), Peter O'Toole, Music
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From the archives: Chinese Theater @ 85
VarietySid Grauman the genius and world's greatest picture house showman, the father of the $1.50 straight atmospheric film theater with a consistent policy along that line, is dedicating next week the dream of a life time, his $1,200,000 Chinese theater, in the...Tags: Esther Williams, Kirk Douglas, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Bones and Joints
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