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Articles tagged "theatre"News10 favorite moments from a remarkable year on Broadwayby Linda Winer [Newsday (MCT)][15.Jun.08] :. Producers of tonight’s Tony Award telecast (8 to 11 EDT on CBS) are planning, somehow, to sell Broadway with scenes from 13 musicals - including the two biggies, “The Little... NewsThe Broadway stage has been set this season for social dramas with big messagesby Linda Winer [Newsday (MCT)][22.Apr.08] :. My temptation is to protect political theater. Every time I hear someone groan “oh, no, not another play about Iraq” or “ho, hum, another docudrama about exonerated...  NewsBroadway play spotlights man who brought radio to the massesby Robert Kahn [Newsday (MCT)][22.Jan.08] :. In Broadway’s “The Farnsworth Invention,” broadcasting pioneer David Sarnoff is celebrated as the earliest and most fervent backer of a new technology: television. Long before...  Multimedia ReviewWoyzeckby Mike Sage[21.Nov.07] :. Because the user can explore the space in real time however he/she desires, the narrative is pieced together at the discretion of the user. The piece becomes a meditation on the narrative form itself.  NewsPlaywright Edward Albee celebrates his 80th yearby Linda Winer [Newsday (MCT)][14.Nov.07] :. MONTAUK, N.Y.—It is a scene a great playwright might imagine, then discard as too obvious. Edward Albee sits at a table in the pool house of his compound at the very end of the world on Old...  News‘Young Frankenstein’: Something’s wrong in Transylvaniaby Linda Winer [Newsday (MCT)][9.Nov.07] :. NEW YORK—“Hump? What hump?” Anyone who grins reflexively at that line—which means any of the zillions who cherish Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein” movie from... New York theaters plan some monster hits this seasonby Christine Dolen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][23.Oct.07] :. It’s all about a master and a monster this season in New York. During the 2007-2008 season, two different versions of Frankenstein (both musicals!) will duke it out to prove which is... ABBA outlasts its criticsby Paul Hodgins [The Orange County Register (MCT)][9.Aug.07] :. Remember white zinfandel? Back in the `80s, everybody was drinking it, but nobody wanted to admit it. ABBA is the white zinfandel of pop groups. Yes, they were hugely popular: more than 370 million... Mel Brook’s ‘Young Frankenstein’ gets ready for Broadwayby Misha Berson [The Seattle Times (MCT)][6.Aug.07] :. The classic Mel Brooks movie “Young Frankenstein” had an inspired concept, adroit lampooning and memorable gags. It also had a killer comic acting ensemble (Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman and... How Disney almost dropped the ball on a `Musical’ megahitby Chris Jones [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][3.Aug.07] :. When the smash 2006 TV movie “High School Musical” suddenly bust out of its box on the Disney Channel into the open, lucrative hearts of seemingly every tween girl in America, you’d... ‘Spring Awakening’ and ‘The Coast of Utopia’ top Tony Awardsby Howard Shapiro [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][11.Jun.07] :. And the big Tony Award winner on Broadway is - the 19th century! Two stage works set in the 1800s were named the season’s best musical and best play Sunday night - the bold rock musical... Broadway honors its finest Sunday with the Tony Awardsby Howard Shapiro [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][10.Jun.07] :. The most coveted prize on Broadway? For a producer, it’s you in a paid seat, and for just about everyone else, it’s a Tony Award. The producers are already celebrating another... TV raises the profile for Broadway’s Tony Awardsby Robert Trussell [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][4.Jun.07] :. You gotta feel for the Tonys. Compared to the glitz of the Oscars, the Emmys or the Grammys, the trophies that honor the best of Broadway always seem a little musty. They’re just so antique.... |
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