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Wed, Nov 25, 2009
The setting is as familiar as anything in modern day: it is a bar where regulars and passers-through interact. "Nick's" may not be "Cheers" - not everybody knows your name and they definitely aren't always glad you came - but it nonetheless offers up an oasis from the stresses of everyday life on the street.
Tue, Nov 24, 2009
How shall we compare Shakespeare to other writers? Rees' answer is: listen. Listening to him change pace and cadences from modern English to excerpts from Lear, Henry V, Richard II and others showcased the command of language: at those times, Rees the entertainer was subsumed by Rees the actor, and we might have been visited, even blessed, by the playwright's ghost.
Tue, Oct 28, 2008
Brad Cox talks about an upcoming performance of the Owen/Cox Dance Group.
Tue, Nov 24, 2009
In the Coterie Theatre's new production of "Little House on the Prairie," big questions are asked.
Tue, Nov 24, 2009
"This show is about light," says director J. Kent Barnhart. "And about Christmas, about all of the different meanings it has for each one of us."
Tue, Nov 24, 2009
Christmas lights and garland decorate the American Heartland Theatre lobby, leaving no doubt of the impending Holidays despite the warm November evening.
Tue, Nov 17, 2009
The Chestnut Fine Arts Center is presenting "A Taffeta Christmas." a musical revue that features Christmas songs and golden oldies.
Tue, Nov 17, 2009
The 1997 Barry Levinson film "Wag the Dog" took the idea that politics is 1% decision-making and 99% show biz, and turned it into a satire of Shavian, if not Shakespearean, proportions. In Beau Willimon's savage comedy "Farragut North," the spin-doctor gets spun--it is a case of the dog getting flogged.
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