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Spring Awakening plays at Harriet S. Jorgensen Theatre in Storrs
Based on a Frank Wedekind play from the 19th century, Spring Awakening, featuring music and lyrics by rocker Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, won eight Tony awards (including best musical and best score) and four drama desk awards. Backed by a rock score...
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Duncan Sheik returns to the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton on Dec. 12
![<span style="font-size: medium;">Recently, Duncan Sheik's life came close to unraveling. In June, on the day his latest album, <em>Covers ’80s</em>, was released, Sheik entered a treatment center for alcohol abuse. He wrote extensively about the experience on his website: "Duncan here, offering you belated apologies for the cancellation of my June tour. The truth is I didn’t do it because I realized I was drinking too much and chose to confront that situation, with the help of family, great friends and some thoughtful, highly qualified professionals." </span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/166749940-05115534.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\">Recently, Duncan Sheik's life came close to unraveling. In June, on the day his latest album, <em>Covers ’80s</em>, was released, Sheik entered a treatment center for alcohol abuse. He wrote extensively about the experience on his website: \"Duncan here, offering you belated apologies for the cancellation of my June tour. The truth is I didn’t do it because I realized I was drinking too much and chose to confront that situation, with the help of family, great friends and some thoughtful, highly qualified professionals.\" </span>")
Recently, Duncan Sheik's life came close to unraveling. In June, on the day his latest album, Covers ’80s, was released, Sheik entered a treatment center for alcohol abuse. He wrote extensively about the experience on his website: "Duncan here,...Tags: Aunt Martha (music group), Substance Abuse, Arts and Culture, Iron Horse Music Hall, Music
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A lively show, but no 'Awakening'
![THEATER REVIEW: "Spring Awakening" by Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★½ ... At the top of director Jonathan Berry's new Chicago production, Aja Wiltshire's Wendla walks out on stage alone to sing her first number: "Mama Who Bore Me."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-12/66532379-05142247.jpg "THEATER REVIEW: "Spring Awakening\" by Griffin Theatre at Theater Wit ★★½ ... At the top of director Jonathan Berry's new Chicago production, Aja Wiltshire's Wendla walks out on stage alone to sing her first number: \"Mama Who Bore Me.\"")
The original Broadway production of the musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind's "Spring Awakening" was suffused with a metadramatic, schoolhouse sensibility: an audience seated on the stage; a listing of the haunting Duncan Sheik musical numbers on the...Tags: Broadway Theater, Concerts, Music Theater, Duncan Sheik, Arts and Culture
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'Glee's' Lea Michele could star in 'Spring Awakening' movie
Culture MonsterLea Michele could be tapped to star in the film adaptation of “Spring Awakening.”... -
'Spring Awakening' team to bring fairy-tale show to La Jolla
Culture Monster`Spring Awakening' creators Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater are working on a musical based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale, `The Nightingale.' It will have a workshop staging this summer at La Jolla Playhouse.... -
Fall 2011: Top 10 plays to watch
Scores of shows are opening in Chicago this fall. Here are 10 productions to anticipate with particular relish.
'Follies'
Just a few weeks after the opening of the Broadway transfer of the Kennedy Center revival, Chicago director Gary Griffin stages...Tags: Broadway Theater, YouTube, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Steppenwolf Theatre, Arts and Culture
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Album review: Lou Reed and Metallica, 'Lulu'
1 star (out of 4)
Lou Reed and Metallica are not only two of the more exalted names in music – pioneers of punk and thrash metal, respectively – they’re among the most perverse.
Though “Lulu” (Warner Bros.), their first...Tags: Lollapalooza, Berlin (Germany), Arts and Culture, Documentary (genre), Music
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Critic’s Notebook: Lou Reed & Metallica’s ‘Lulu’ collaboration
Pop & HissTheir take on a work by German playwright Frank Wedekind is getting as rough a critical reception as the original did a century ago. Yet it has its moments. The German playwright Frank Wedekind had a theory about the connection...... -
Breakthrough Theatre opens ‘Spring Awakening’ on Friday, July 29
Orlando Theater BlogTickets go on sale today for Breakthrough Theatre of Winter Park's production of the Tony award-winning musical “Spring Awakening,” which opens Friday, July 29, and runs through Aug. 21. This rock-musical version of “Spring Awakening&#... -
'Spring Awakening' at the Oriental Theatre: Young cast is not up to 'Awakening'
The Theater LoopTHEATER REVIEW: "Spring Awakening" ★★ Through Sunday at Oriental Theatre, 24 W. Randolph St.; Running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes; Tickets: $27-$90 at 800-775-2000 and broadwayinchicago.com The usual complaint about non-Equity tours — such... -
Screenwriter Nicholas Kazan to present new play at Atwater Village Theatre
Culture MonsterThe writer Nicholas Kazan is famous for his screenplays -- he received an Oscar nomination for "Reversal of Fortune" in 1991 -- and for being the son of the late director Elia Kazan. But he also has carved out a......
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