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Yale Grad Bryce Pinkham Plays The Bad Guy In 'Ghost'
The Hartford CourantDa'Vine Joy Randolph isn't the only recent Yale School of Drama grad in the spotlight in the Broadway musical,"Ghost," based in the 1990 hit film. Bryce Pinkham, who graduated in 2008 just as Randolph was entering the three-year program, is cast in the...Tags: Movies, Hartford Stage, Celebrities, Broadway Theater, Andrew Jackson
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Long 'March' toward the stage
In 1864, a diminutive and unprepossessing general named William Tecumseh Sherman stormed through the South with more than 60,000 Union troops. Even though Sherman had previously supped and socialized in many of the cities he would set ablaze, he...
Tags: Dustin Hoffman, Literature, Steppenwolf Theatre, Management (movie), Central Park
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'Hog butcher for the world'
The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of...Tags: Willa Cather, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Steaks, Thomas Pynchon, Democratic Convention (1968)
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Vaclav Havel, a playwright with political passion
Culture MonsterVaclav Havel, the former Czech president who died Saturday at 75, was the perfect example of an increasingly rare specimen -- the politically engaged playwright. In today's theatrical climate dominated by silly movie retreads and safe little dramas,... -
Presidential campaign needs to get real on salvaging middle class
Occupy Wall Street and its coast-to-coast spinoffs captured the headlines in 2011, but the economic debate it helped trigger should reverberate deep into 2012.
That's the debate over the future of the American middle class. Rarely has its economic plight...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Productivity, Government Health Care, Business Enterprises, Economic Indicator
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Theater review: 'I've Never Been So Happy' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Culture MonsterCharles McNulty reviews Rude Mechs "I've Never Been So Happy" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.... -
Art review: 'Asco: Elite of the Obscure, 1972-1987' at LACMA
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight reviews "ASCO: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective 1972-1987" at LACMA, part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time... -
Theater review: 'Cabaret' at UCLA's Freud Playhouse
Culture MonsterCharles McNulty reviews the Reprise Theatre Company revival of "Cabaret" at UCLA's Freud Playhouse... -
The Virginia Quarterly Review, part 1: A suicide rocks the esteemed literary journal
Jacket CopyOn July 30, Kevin Morrissey printed a note, gathered his identification and called the Charlottesville, Va., police to report a shooting at the coal tower, a local landmark. When they arrived, it was Morrissey they found dead of a self-inflicted...... -
A conversation: Christopher Hampton revisits 'Tales from Hollywood'
Culture MonsterFew playwrights are as intimately acquainted with the movie business as Christopher Hampton. The British dramatist has penned numerous screenplays during his career, winning an Oscar for "Dangerous Liaisons" in 1989 and a nomination for "Atonement" in... -
Theater review: ‘Tales From Hollywood’ at the Odyssey Theatre
Culture MonsterBertolt Brecht, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, and their expatriate literary cohorts may have chalked up a hit or two in Europe, but did they have what it takes to make it in Tinseltown? The story of how talented writers fleeing......
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