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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ArtsJournal» VISUAL“There are people in the world – otherwise sensible people – who continue to think that the purpose of public art is to make people happy. … [Yet] the purest pleasure excited by a newly announced work of public ar...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comThe new adaptation of the comic book "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," directed by Jonathan Liebesman, often feels like some sort of corporate seminar in brand management. There is something half-hearted about the entire film, as if those ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comSit tight, "Arrested Development" fans. More is likely on the way. At least if Netflix has its way.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from designboom | architecture & design magazine » arta spectrum of hues is tagged onto the interior of the bowl, canvassing the skate surface in geometric and gradient designs. The post zuk club paint lugano skatepark as a working sundial appeared first on designboom | architecture & d...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsThe works of the exhibition’s 13 artists revolve around themes of chance and games, centering on the economic and gambling conundrum of risk known as the St. Petersburg Paradox.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comAs a composer of concert music and member of an organization (Chicago's Fifth House Ensemble ) that specializes in presenting cutting-edge music by living composers, I've enjoyed the chance to become acquainted with all kinds of exciting...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsEmmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell played at Americanafest NYC, a collaboration between Lincoln Center Out of Doors and the American Music Association, which runs through Sunday.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > Arts“Human Resources,” on Pivot, is a workplace reality series that offers an example of meaningful work for millennials.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comDenver's rarefied air seems to have gotten the best of Lady Gaga.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsThis stimulating group show imagines the consequences of drastic environmental change.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comTalent runs in the Pattinson family. Robert Pattinson's 31-year-old sister Lizzy recently passed an audition for "The X Factor U.K.," which means she could end up appearing on show's 11th season. When asked about his older sister's recen...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comAn exhibit featuring an urn filled with the late DJ Alan Freed’s ashes was recently removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, just a week or so after Beyoncé’s wardrobe moved in.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comColorado Sunset Series. Summer 2011
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ArtsJournal» MUSIC
“The Louisville Orchestra is reporting a $20,000 budget surplus – the first time it has been in the black since it filed for bankruptcy nearly four years ago.” -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsA selection of outdoor art exhibitions, at Madison Square, City Hall Park, the High Line, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Governors Island and Storm King.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comGoing against character, Catherine Keener creates a traumatized survivor in 'War Story'
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > TheaterA critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsA guide to movies playing at theaters in New York City, as well as select film series.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsIn “Deepsea Challenge 3D,” James Cameron dives into a documentary project that’s autobiographical.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsA guide to stand-up, improv and comedy shows in New York City.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsA new public art program at Governors Island features four sculptures by Mark Handforth and a work by the sound artist Susan Philipsz.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsThe Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum — both ambitious cosmopolitan art institutions — have taken diverging paths on the Internet.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > Arts“About Alex,” in which college friends reunite, features allusions to “The Big Chill,” a reunion film of another generation.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comSlave ships carried at least 11,000,000 captive Africans across the Atlantic, but we know the faces of hardly any of these people. Portraits of individual Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Americas are incredibly rare, and in...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ArtsJournal» DANCE
“The Nashville Ballet is embarking on an unprecedented public fundraising campaign to finance an expansion project to grow studio space, renovate its Sylvan Heights headquarters and dramatically increase the number of students.R... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsRachel Feinstein has set up “Folly,” a set of three sculptures that evoke the whimsical garden structures on 18th- and 19th-century estates, in Madison Square Park.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comBased in part on the story of author-life coach-stylist-musician Guy Blews, the film "37: A Final Promise" comes off as a paranormal and schizophrenic take on a Lifetime movie with themes of terminal illness and assisted suicide.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsA walk on the High Line will include the “Archeo” exhibition as well as other outdoor artworks.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comUnhurried and unworried, "The Hundred-Foot Journey" runs with the genial precision of the well-oiled machine. A sweet and unapologetic fairy tale for adults, its story of cuisines and cultures in conflict has been polished to such a high...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comIn 2011, photographer Jeffrey Lewis Bennett was shooting a wedding for a couple named Patrick and Denise. While Bennett was taking a series of photos of the couple in rapid-fire succession, he and the groom were musing about their mutual...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsWorks by Zhang Huan and Virginia Overton at Storm King offer operatic showiness and Buddhist simplicity, but maybe not the ones you’d expect.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsParts of Danh Vo’s “We the People,” an actual-size but fragmentary copy of the Statue of Liberty, is on display in City Hall Park in Manhattan and in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ArtsJournal» DANCE
“With performances during its inaugural season under its belt, organizers of … Ballet Latino de San Antonio, are working on the fall 2014 schedule as well as plans for performing abroad next year.” The company was estab... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comThere's nothing ecstatic about the countdown to Judgment Day in "As It Is in Heaven," a lean, grim drama focused on a small religious sect in backwoods Kentucky.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from artnet News
Robert H. Ellsworth, a legendary collector and dealer of Asian art, including Ming dynasty furniture, modern Chinese painting, Chinese mirrors, and neolithic jades died in New York on Sunday, August 3. He was 85 years old. Ellsworth, who... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ARTnewsA few days ago the video for the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies’ impressively stacked Andy Warhol panel—moderated by Bob Colacello Peter Brant, Donna De Salvo, Larry Gagosian, Jane Holzer, Alberto Mugrabi, and Aby...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comIntroducing Shakespeare to a young audience is no easy task. Captivate Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival doesn't shy away. With a double offering of Romantic Romeo and Brave Macbeth , the Scotland-based company showcases music, wi...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Cool Hunting
Situated among rolling hills of vineyards and the sprawling Douro River in Spain, the Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine luxury hotel is a portrait Old World charm. Once a monastery, the sprawling estate is located two hours north... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsAndia Winslow, a sports performance coach, offers guidance for exercising in the sand, which is more difficult, and therefore more beneficial, than doing the same moves on a hard surface.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsAffordable water exercise classes abound throughout the city’s five boroughs.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts on HuffingtonPost.comIn the past two years Instagram has shot to mainstream popularity. For those who may have just recently jumped on the bandwagon, you may not know that Instagrams' early adopters were photographers. When I say photographers I mean real on...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > Arts“Fifi Howls From Happiness” brings Bahman Mohassess out from obscurity.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Colossal
Japanese artist Shintaro Ohata (previously) currently has two new sculptural paintings on view at Mizuma Gallery in Singapore. Ohata places vibrantly painted figurative sculptures in the foreground of similarly styled paintings that when... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtThis children's hospital documentary was both upbeat and heartbreaking, says Rachel Ward
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtJulie Walters takes a shovel to her Irish roots, says Rachel Ward
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Culture, Entertainment and ArtBBC Three's updated take on the First World War is not a fitting remembrance, says Jake Wallis Simons
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ArtsJournal» MUSIC
James Jorden: “It’s not hard to understand how the Metropolitan Opera’s general manager Peter Gelb got a bad rap … but the dark clouds hovering over Mr. Gelb should not obscure his very real achievements.” A... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from artnet News
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Arts&Culture - latimes.comCall him William, Prince William.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ArtsThe musical “Fun Home,” which had an acclaimed run last fall at the Public Theater, will move to Broadway this spring.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Society of London Theatre - NewsMany shows promise to make you laugh and cry. Kevin Elyot’s devastating and delightful My Night With Reg delivers.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Society of London Theatre - NewsRoger Allam is to return to the Hampstead Theatre this autumn when he stars as former novelist turned teacher Leonard in Theresa Rebeck’s comedy Seminar.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Society of London Theatre - NewsBad Education’s Kae Alexander, Sunshine On Leith’s Kevin Guthrie and London Irish’s Kerr Logan will star in the Royal Court’s hacking drama Teh Internet Is Serious Business.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Society of London Theatre - NewsUnderwear-sporting aliens, a Hawaiian shirt-clad ghost elephant and some of Britain’s best-loved children’s authors all in one place. It can only mean one thing: the Kids Week launch.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzConstantine Maroulis sits down with Show People host Paul Wontorek to talk about his return to Rock of Ages , being a dad and his hair (of course).
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzIt's the first episode of James Monroe Iglehart's vlog, and he pulls out all the stops! Check out the backstage antics at The View , his Freestyle Love Supreme gig AND Aladdin , of course. That's a lot of backstage...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureMirren stars as a French restaurant owner in The Hundred-Foot Journey , about food, family and the clash of cultures. She says during her first 20 years in film, sets were "very locker roomy."
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureWhat If , starring Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan, may not be exactly new in its presentation of an impossibly adorable love story, but it introduces some genuine pleasures of its own.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe new take on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is competent enough, but it lacks some of the goofy fun that it had back when the sewers were responsible for making all the trouble.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureJames Cameron didn't direct Deepsea Challenge ; he's the challenger. And while the film has a surprisingly anticlimactic climax, for explorers of the bottom of the sea, it may hit the spot.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzSoon, Broadway's gonna have a whorehouse in it again. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas will return to Broadway next year in a brand new production. Tony, Emmy and Olivier Award winner Rob Ashford will direct and choreograph....
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureCharles Cumming hooks NPR book reviewer Alan Cheuse with his latest spy novel, A Colder War .
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe new Cinemax show stars Clive Owen as a rude doctor in a New York City hospital in 1900. It may take a few episodes, but you'll care about the characters and their inventions.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzThe hot 2013 off-Broadway property Fun Home will move to the Great White Way. According to The New York Times , the Pulitzer finalist will begin previews on April 4, 2015 at Circle in the Square Theater. Opening night is set for April 22...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzRemember that time the Australian cast of The Lion King rocked an airplane and lifted everyone’s travel-weary spirits? Well, the Broadway cast just upped the ante—they gave ‘Life’ to NYC subway riders! The stars o...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzHere's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today. The Last Five Years , Starring Anna Kendrick & Jeremy Jordan, Goes Global This is good, but not yet ideal news, since it means that we are still impatiently waiti...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The StagePlaywright Mark Ravenhill has said that writers shouldn’t view the theatre as “an industry”, but should live as cheaply as possible to focus on the art form. Speaking in an interview in this week’s The…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzAge: 51 Hometown: Born and raised in Canada’s Ottawa Valley; now based in Toronto Current Role: Scheming innkeeper Thenardier, the self-proclaimed “master of the house” and comic relief in Les Miserables . Stage Cred: S...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzBillie’s not going anywhere! Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill , starring six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald , has extended its limited Broadway run for a final time. The production, which previously announced that it wo...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzBetsy Wolfe , Andrew Samonsky , John Ellison Conlee , Ann Harada and more will join Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana for the Transport Group’s concert presentation of The Music Man on ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzSeinfeld co-creator Larry David has confirmed that he will be making his Broadway debut this winter with his first play. According to The New York Times , Fish in the Dark will be directed by Tony winner Anna D. Shapiro and officially op...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureA color version of a Best Picture nominee originally shown in black and white raises the question of how much choice audiences are really supposed to have when they approach a creator's vision.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzWe’re gonna be honest: Things around the Broadway.com offices have gotten really boring the last few weeks. It’s sweltering, it’s humid, and worst of all, no new Broadway shows open until after Labor Day. But never fear...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The StageIf, like me, you don’t have better things to do, you might have found yourself surfing the channels last Friday night in the hope of finding something vaguely entertaining to watch. Having forced myself to…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentTHE LAST FIVE YEARS starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan has sold out most key international market before it makes its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CulturePack up the car, hit the road, and turn up the TED Radio Hour. These stories will entertain you as you get away from it all.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentOn last night's LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS, Sarah Paulson revealed the snake sex secrets of AHS Season 4. Check out the appearance below
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzFour-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein will host the sixth annual Broadway Salutes on September 23. The event honors the countless professionals who make Broadway great and will feature special recognition for 25, 35 and 50+ years of ser...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentMr. David spoke by telephone to the New York Times yesterday and revealed that the play, to be titled 'Fish In the Dark,' was a comedy made up of approximately 15 characters.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureCritic Jason Heller says that while A.J. Colucci's writing is brisk and crisp, this eco-horror tale of sentient plants on a mysterious island is a great concept let down by sloppy execution.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentHappy Birthday Rachel York York has appeared on Broadway as Fantine in Les Miserables Norma in VictorVictoria Drama Desk Award with Julie Andrews Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel Miss Fancy in Sly Fox with Richard Dreyfuss and Christi...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsCasting is now complete for the Transport Group's upcoming concert presentation of Meredith Willson's The Music Man , which will be offered Aug. 11 at 8 PM at the Irene Diamond Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsTony nominee Andrew Rannells ( The Book of Mormon, Jersey Boys ), who will step into the title role of the Tony-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch later this month, will be a guest on the Aug. 13 broadcast of "The Tonight Show Starri...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentStage and screen legend Barbra Streisand is no stranger to social media, boasting over 320,000 followers on Twitter. Yesterday, however, the multi-talented actress signed on to Instagram, posting a picture of her dog
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentI've come to embrace the idea that a life well lived is filled with its fair share of second chances and new beginnings. For Ted Shen's A SECOND CHANCE audiences were introduced to Dan and Jenna, both are living in crisis. A SECOND CHANC...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentGood morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news PHOENIX, starring Julia Stiles and James Wirt, opens off-Broadway, the Met Room celeb...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Playbill.com : NewsLarry David, the creator and star of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," will make his Broadway debut as an actor and playwright with Fish in the Dark , which will open at a Shubert theatre to be announced March 5, 2015, ac...
- We Got Annie! Casting for the Upcoming Tour to Be Announced on Premiere of Broadway Balances AmericaThursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Broadway BuzzWe know you're gonna like it here! Broadway Balances America , a special six-part series airing on Lifetime Television’s The Balancing Act , kicks off on August 12 with an exclusive casting announcement and a sneak peek at the ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureMother Samantha Schoech has had enough of the endless, contradictory advice. Sure, there's probably some good wisdom out there, but she's decided she's much too susceptible to #parentaltrending.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' choreographer Spencer Liff was on hand to create a gorgeous routine to 'Maybe This Time', sung by Liza Minnelli.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BroadwayWorld.com Featured ContentHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on August 7 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureAlso: Portlandia's Carrie Brownstein will complete Nora Ephron's unfinished screenplay for Lost in Austen ; finalists for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year are announced.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The StageMore than 20,000 people attended the Greater Manchester Fringe this year, in which the number of shows registered was double that of last year. The festival, which took place throughout July across the city, saw…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The StageEfforts to find Israeli theatre company Incubator a new space to perform in following protests outside its original venue at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe have been abandoned, resulting in the entire cancellation of the…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureRichard House's 1,048-page thriller is a series of interlocking novels within novels about a British contractor who flees Iraq after being framed for the loss of $53 million in development money.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThis month, we'll be hearing from poets about what summer evokes for them. Our first poet is Sandra Beasley, whose latest collection is: I Was the Jukebox: Poems .
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The StageIf you need to know about something in real depth you probably can’t, even in this high-tech world, do better than a book. Enter two new ones which take you through the detail of skills…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The StageActors are demanding a “substantial” pay rise of up to 10% from theatre managers in the West End as part of a four-year deal between Equity and the Society of London Theatre. The union is…
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureThe "ick factor" has kept consumers in the U.S. from eating crickets, locusts and mealworms. To convert skeptics, bug-food advocates are trying to win them over with sleek packages and clever names.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Arts & CultureLawrence Block published the first book of his Matthew Scudder mystery series in 1976. He says when it came to crime fiction inspiration, "the city never failed me. It always provided something."
