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The opening shot of the quietly gripping drama "Frozen River" ends with a close-up of actress Melissa Leo, whose face resembles a Depression-era Dorothea Lange portrait in its hard grief. As Ray Eddy, a single mother of two living in a trailer in Upstate New...(more)
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NEW YORK (AP) -- So how is Whoopi Goldberg spending her six-week summer vacation from "The View"? Growling her way through the Electric Light Orchestra's "Evil Woman," eight times a week in the Broadway musical "Xanadu."...
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Twyla Tharp tries to keep the focus on her new work for the American Ballet Theater, not on herself.
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Over the years, the quirkily inventive Pilobolus troupe has abandoned brains for brawn. The weird, morphing optical illusions, the walking puzzles made out of torsos and legs that defined it at its start nearly 40 years ago -- these have given way to slapstick humor...(more)
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Besides Andrew Bird and his band, there were two other dominant presences onstage at the Fillmore Tuesday night: a pair of oversized gramophones, one zebra-striped, and one colored red and white with two horn-shaped speakers. Throughout the night, the two-headed gramophone would twirl in circles like...(more)
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Delight takes hold immediately in Round House Theatre's "Nixon's Nixon" as a familiar scowling figure air-conducts Tchaikovsky with physical abandon. The arms pump and the jowls flap, but nobody's there to follow his emphatic cues. It's the eve of his resignation, and Richard Nixon --...(more)
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A 17th-century Shakespeare volume valued at $30 million, stolen from a university a decade ago, has been recovered, The Associated Press reported. On Tuesday police officers in England arrested a man in connection with the theft. The arrest followed an incident two weeks ago when a...(more)
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“Bash’d,” a hip-hop musical about gay marriage and gay bashing, hopes to offer a bracing attack on bigotry.
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No matter how many times the dancers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform "Revelations," it evokes tears with its blend of grace and spiritual rapture. The signature work of America's premiere African American dance company was choreographed by Ailey in 1960, two years...(more)
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Kathleen Akerley has a juicy hook for her lyrical, melancholy new drama, "Theories of the Sun": Tennessee Williams and Tom Stoppard have starring roles. The great playwrights, lounging in a French hotel in 1963, are terrific tone-setters for the fanciful show, which obviously toys with...(more)
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Tap-dancing is a peculiarly obsessive art, honed in loneliness, its devotees driven to find the tiniest ways to produce big sounds, or to deliver a rat-a-tat clarity whose source no eye could follow. Because it's so blasted hard to do, it's one of the few...(more)
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There are so many theater companies in Berkeley, it’s almost impossible to throw a stone here without hitting an actor upside the head. That may be a bad thing for the actors themselves, but for the rest of us who are looking for some dirt cheap...(more)
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