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Iowa's Field of Dreams
If Your Build It They Will Come
By: - Mar 06th, 2017The Ghost Players who emerge from the cornfield in the movie are re-enacted at the movie site by local residents in period White Sox uniforms.
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Anything Goes at Ft. Myers Dinner Theater
Refreshing, Energetic Rendition of a Cole Porter Classic
By: - Mar 06th, 2017Cast shines in vibrant production of "Anything Goes" at Ft. Myers Dinner Theater through April 1. It is a tasty evening of theatre in every sense.
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St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie
Ambivalence of Shostakovich Apology Beautiful to Hear
By: - Mar 05th, 2017Who can play Shostakovich better than a Russian? Shostakovich’s Fifth symphony has come down to us as an apology to Stalin during a time of heightened scrutiny not only of artists but of everyone under him. Now it is thought to be a protest against Stalinist terror. Whatever its messages, and messages from Russians continue to be unclear, the music is beautiful, a classical symphony brought forward into the 20th century.
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Figaretto Is the Only Gravity-Fed Valpolicella
Mauro Bustaggi Knows Winemaking
By: - Mar 05th, 2017Great wines from the Valpolicella wine region begin with winemaker Mauro Bustaggi and his great gravity-fed winemaking skills.
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O'Neill's Long Day’s Journey into Night
Compelling at Geffen Playhouse
By: - Mar 04th, 2017Geffen’s Artistic Director Randall Arney, took on the challenge of producing O’Neill’s masterpiece. Staged by acclaimed director Jeanie Hackett, this revival of “Long Day’s Journey into Night” features gifted actors: the superb Alfred Molina as James Tyrone , the brilliant Jane Kaczmarek as morphine addicted Mary Tyrone, Stephen Louis Grush as the star-crossed and fated Jamie Tyrone, and Colin Woodell as young Edmund Tyrone (the alter-ego of Eugene O’Neill), a poet/writer battling tuberculosis and alcoholism.
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Crackskull Row at the Irish Repertory Theatre
All Family Blood Is the Same
By: - Mar 04th, 2017Crackskull Row is an eighty-minute tone poem composed in the lilting Irish language. It is a quartet, the characters: a women, a man, their son and an angel, who is perhaps an aborted fetus of a girl who comes to life. She arrives on the tiny set, a perfect stage for this intimate yet profoundly resonating drama, by sliding down the chimney. She lands on a blood stain which sends a son to jail for 33 years and also on the spot where the fetus was deposited.
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Annual Steinberg Awards Finalists
Juried by American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA)
By: - Mar 04th, 2017The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2016.
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Glenn Close Ignites Sunset Boulvard
Ready For Her Closeup on Broadway
By: - Mar 04th, 2017Glenn Close is the magnet that is filling the house – the musical has already been extended a month – and everything, from her glittering silver and gold lame wardrobe (Anthony Powell), makeup (Charlotte Hayward), wigs (Andrew Simonin), the set (James Noone), and even the other actors in the play who mostly fade into the background when Close is on stage, play second fiddle to her electrifying presence which at times threatens to ignite the theater.
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Andris Nelsons Collaborates with BSO
Beautiful Tone, Dynamic Range and Story Telling
By: - Mar 03rd, 2017When Andris Nelsons stepped on to the Carnegie Hall stage as the last minute substitute for James Levine, we did not know that the event would be as momentous as Leonard Bernstein's last minute substitution for an aiiling Bruno Walter. Who knows how these seminal moments will be ranked in musical history. So much lies before the the young conductor. Performance after performance Nelsons and his musician collaborators from the Boston Symphony exceed themselves.
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To Kill a Mockingbird in Ft. Myers
Adaptation of Harper Lee's Classic is Broadway Bound
By: - Mar 03rd, 2017"To Kill a Mockingbird" forces audiences to examine their prejudices. bcast mostly excels in production of Harper Lee classic at Florida Repertory Theatre.
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Rockefeller Offers Hamilton Matinees
Title 1 School Children See the Best Show in Town
By: - Mar 02nd, 2017Alexander Hamilton may have created the financial system that made building John D. Rockefeller's fortune possible. Now Rockefeller money is being used to fund tickets for Title 1 school children to attend the hottest show in town, "Hamilton."
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Revival of Zoot Suit at Mark Taper Forum
75 Years After Its Original Prduction Still Thrills
By: - Mar 02nd, 2017In 1977, playwright/director Luis Valdez, brought his play “Zoot Suit” to Gordon Davidson, the Artistic Director of the Mark Taper Forum with the hope that one of the country’s most prestigious Regional Theatres would produce his controversial story of social injustice and police brutality toward Latino’s in the city of Angels. And he wanted to do it with a cast of mostly Latino performers.
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Tony Winner Fun Home in LA
National Tour Visits Ahmanson Theatre
By: - Mar 02nd, 2017The national tour production, of 2015 Tony winner Fun Home is now on the stage of The Ahmanson Theatre. It is an eye-opening and somewhat of a ground-breaking production, in that it tells the story of a gay young woman’s sexual awakening in a troubled Pennsylvania family.
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The Night of the Iguana at ART
A Galaxy of Stars Shines on Tennessee Williams Last Classic
By: - Mar 01st, 2017On the edge of the Mexican jungle, a seedy hotel is the meeting place of several desperate characters. Directed by Michael Wilson (Broadway's The Trip to Bountiful, The Best Man), Williams’ feverishly poetic 1961 drama follows a hotel proprietress and the scandal-soaked Southern preacher who turns up on her veranda. A Nantucket portrait artist traveling with her ancient poet grandfather, a bus of fuming Texan college students and administrators, and a party of German vacationers collide in this drama about how far we travel to outrun the demons within. With a star-studded cast, this production may be the must-see event of the 2016-2017 theatrical season.
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Berkshires WAM 2017 Season
Collaborations with Berkshire Theatres
By: - Mar 01st, 2017The Berkshire-based professional theatre company celebrates its eighth year with two Main Stage productions, a thought-provoking series of play readings, and several exciting new collaborations and initiatives 2.017 season explores a broad range of perspectives around issues affecting women and girls.
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Linda Ages at the Manhattan Theatre Club
Jamie Dee in Star Turn as Linda
By: - Feb 28th, 2017Linda comes across the pond after creating a stir on the West End. No question that the title role performance by Jamie Dee is worth the price of the ticket. Perhaps because we live in a Sephora culture in the US, the issues do not seem quite so relevant in New York. Yet Lynne Meadow directing keeps you on the edge of your seat.
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Veneto's Cantine Tinazzi
Valpolicella Shines
By: - Feb 27th, 2017Tinazzi was founded in 1968, which is quite recent for a winery that produces over two million bottles of wine a year. Valpolicella shines on the vineyards 110 acres near Lake Garda in Veneto.
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Denver's Unique Strategy to Fund the Arts
One Cent from Every Ten Dollars Spent Goes a Long Way
By: - Feb 26th, 2017There is a 0.1 percent sales tax for arts and culture in Denver’s seven-county metro area. At just one cent for every ten dollars it generates $1.85 billion annually in economic activity, creates 10,205 jobs, and stimulates $520 million in tourism.
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Mount Veeder Wines Invade La Quinta
Thirteen Wineries Pour Iconic Wines on March 1
By: - Feb 25th, 2017La Quinta Resort & Club will host thirteen wineries pouring their special wines at a wine tasting on March 1st from 3:30-6pm
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The Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall
Franz Welser-Möst Conducts
By: - Feb 25th, 2017Schubert tripped the light fantastic, and so too René Staar, contemporary composer and musical polymath. Strauss Richard showed us how to share whatever narcissism we have with others and make it work. Another Strauss was a fillp to the moving and delightful evening at Carnegie Hall.
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10x10 Upstreet in Pittsfield
Barrington’s 6th New Play Festival
By: - Feb 25th, 2017With the exception of the gravitas of Raghead by Tom Coash the 6th annual 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage was upbeat, lively and often hilarious.
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Annie Baker Adapts Uncle Vanya
Goodman Theatre Production Directed by Robert Falls
By: - Feb 25th, 2017The truest and most palpably Chekhovian version of Vanya may well be Annie Baker’s new translation/adaptation, which opened this week at the Goodman Theatre, directed by Robert Falls
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Jim Jarmusch and Paterson
Film's Quest for Poetry
By: - Feb 25th, 2017Jim Jarmusch’s new film “Paterson” – about a poet named Paterson who drives a bus for a living in Paterson, New Jersey – is concerned not simply with poetry and the craft of prosody, but with the very nature of language itself.
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Federal Support for the Arts Under Attack
Five Boston Museum Directors Express Concern
By: - Feb 24th, 2017Five Boston museum directors have signed a letter of concern over reports that the National Endowment for the Arts is under threat of being abolished, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Under the conservative agenda of the Trump adminsitration this is an attack on the arts in America. Guarding the Trumps in NY, DC and Palm Beach for a week is on a par with endowment support.
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The Little Mermaid In Ft. Lauderdale
Seattle Theater's Touring Production Sinks
By: - Feb 24th, 2017"The Little Mermaid" swims into Ft. Lauderdale's Broaward Center for the Performing Arts. A tedious production with new staging is anchored in South Florida through March 5 Children will delight in production's visuals.
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