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NEW YORK (AP) -- A nonprofit group is planning two autism-friendly performances of Broadway's "The Lion King" and "Mary Poppins" for families with children diagnosed with the disorder....
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Even for the most devoted acolytes of Monty Python, the polymorphous British comedy troupe that flourished on television, in movies and on records in the 1970s and early '80s, the 1975 film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is a near-sacred relic. That inspired send-up of...(more)
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In a winter of belt-tightening economic gloom - and as a silver lining, one hopes, a Christmastime not reduced to mere shopping - let's get the consumer advice out of the way. Is San Francisco Ballet's "Nutcracker" worth the outlay? The giggling children and shining parents...(more)
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London's Theatreland enjoyed record box office sales in 2011 for an eighth consecutive year, according to figures released by the Society of London Theatre.
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A 'banana millionaire', a pair of Bolshoi defectors, an avant-garde Spaniard and an all-powerful agent are the principals in this power struggleOn 15 December, during a nationwide TV broadcast entitled "Meet Mr Putin", the Russian prime minister addressed Valery Gergiev, general director of the Mariinsky theatre...(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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They added four new songs, lined up a big theater and psyched up their backers. The producers of "Vanities, A New Musical," originally staged at the Pasadena Playhouse, then announced it was opening on Broadway in February.
But three weeks later, on Dec. 5, the producers issued...(more)
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ballet stars once defected to the West in search of artistic freedom. These days, western dancers are lured east by the iron discipline of a Russian ballet education.
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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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In “Russian Transport,” a relative joins a Russian-American family in Sheepshead Bay, changing the dynamic and bringing corruption.
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Nearly a century and a half after its conclusion and long after anyone who witnessed it is gone, the Civil War remains the defining event of American history. It's the wound that refuses to heal, the festering outgrowth of the racial crimes encoded in the nation's...(more)
