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NEW YORK (AP) -- Broadway prepared to say goodbye Sunday to "Rent," 12 years and 5,124 performances after it first became a rock musical with a message for theatergoers of all ages....
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Paul Simon seemed happy and energetic performing at the Washington Convention Center on Saturday night as part of AARP's 50th-anniversary celebration. That is, until he caught a glimpse of his face magnified on the venue's supersize monitors. "I'm really grateful for that close-up," Simon quipped....(more)
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Carrie Fisher sure can dish it. And we're only too happy to take it. Her blissfully gossipy one-woman show, "Wishful Drinking," acerbically, uproariously and, yes, even affectionately mines the rich veins of a life lived to a conveniently lampoonable degree in the public eye. Think...(more)
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Film-maker Woody Allen makes his debut as an opera director, re-interpreting a Puccini production in Los Angeles.
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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) -- It may seem incongruous to make a musical by combining exhilarating Afrobeat music and lively, often sensual dancing with grim stories of a military government's oppression of its citizens. But when the result is the exciting new off-Broadway show "Fela!," the messages...(more)
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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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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - David Cronenberg's sci-fi terror movie "The Fly" has taken on a new life in the Canadian director's first foray into the world of opera.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- David Mamet's "American Buffalo," a robbery tale set in a Chicago junk shop, has found its third partner in crime - Haley Joel Osment, who will be making his Broadway debut in the production....
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Playwright Callie Kimball gives good taste a whuppin' in "Peace," a lively adaptation of Aristophanes' comedy that puts our era's war on terror on its broad watch list. Aristophanes opened with dung jokes and blissfully escalated to zingers on matters of security, and that pattern...(more)
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The free open-air dance performances in Damrosch Park covered quite a range, deriving from the Ivory Coast, Haiti, Brazil and the Alps — that is, the Alps as rendered by Hollywood.
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