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Thu August 07 2008
That's the title song from the ABBA musical, Mamma Mia! Tonight, it will be performed live on stage in at least seven different cities around the wo...
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That's the title song from the ABBA musical, Mamma Mia! Tonight, it will be performed live on stage in at least seven different cities around the world. It's been estimated that 30 million people have seen Mamma Mia!, but up until last night, I had not been one of them...
That's the title song from the ABBA musical, Mamma Mia! Tonight, it will be performed live on stage in at least seven different cities around the world. It's been estimated that 30 million people have seen Mamma Mia!, but up until last night, I had not been one of them...
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Thu July 24 2008
One of the unwritten laws of journalism is that once something happens three times, it officially becomes a trend. Already twice this year, major Lo...
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One of the unwritten laws of journalism is that once something happens three times, it officially becomes a trend. Already twice this year, major Los Angeles theaters had to cancel world premieres of new plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights. In January, Center Theatre Group announced that David Mamet's first musical, A Waitress in Yellowstone, was indefinitely postponed; and then in April... read more
One of the unwritten laws of journalism is that once something happens three times, it officially becomes a trend. Already twice this year, major Los Angeles theaters had to cancel world premieres of new plays by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights. In January, Center Theatre Group announced that David Mamet's first musical, A Waitress in Yellowstone, was indefinitely postponed; and then in April, The Geffen Playhouse announced that it was postponing the world premiere of Donald Margulies' new play, The Elephant in the Room, about a photojournalist returning home after covering a war...
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Thu July 17 2008
During his life and in the time since his death 90 years ago, Franz Wedekind was widely known in the German-speaking world. Both famousâand inf...
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During his life and in the time since his death 90 years ago, Franz Wedekind was widely known in the German-speaking world. Both famousâand infamousâfor his plays, his acting, plus his songs and light verse, Wedekind was actually conceived in here in America. His parents met and lived in San Francisco, but moved to Germany just before he was born...
During his life and in the time since his death 90 years ago, Franz Wedekind was widely known in the German-speaking world. Both famousâand infamousâfor his plays, his acting, plus his songs and light verse, Wedekind was actually conceived in here in America. His parents met and lived in San Francisco, but moved to Germany just before he was born...
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Thu July 03 2008
That's a wonderful tune titled, "A Wonderful Guy," from the 1949 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical South Pacific. Broadway musicals, like Nellie Forbush...
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That's a wonderful tune titled, "A Wonderful Guy," from the 1949 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical South Pacific. Broadway musicals, like Nellie Forbush, the character who sings that number, can be as corny as Kansas; but on some occasions they can be as expressive as any art form: as subtle as poetry, as expansive as a Cinerama motion picture and as simple or profound as a black-and-white photo...
That's a wonderful tune titled, "A Wonderful Guy," from the 1949 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical South Pacific. Broadway musicals, like Nellie Forbush, the character who sings that number, can be as corny as Kansas; but on some occasions they can be as expressive as any art form: as subtle as poetry, as expansive as a Cinerama motion picture and as simple or profound as a black-and-white photo...
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