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Book places: Hall Library
Special to the TribuneKnown as the “Black Jewel of the Midwest,” the George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library has been serving the Bronzeville community since 1932. Earlier this year, it was recommended for landmark status for its role as a...Tags: Bronzeville, Chicago Public Library, Minority Groups, Entertainment, Langston Hughes
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A new cheatsheet for theater buffs
Culture MonsterSo, you have a term paper on Euripides due tomorrow and you haven't even cracked "Medea," "The Trojan Women" or any other of the ancient Greek writer's tragedies. Or you're an actor who has an audition this week for a...... -
Steppenwolf announces new slate of plays
The Theater LoopSteppenwolf Theatre Company has announced the line-up for its annual First Look Repertory of New Works, which now has been moved from its previous summer perch to the fall. First Look shows play in repertoire from Oct. 27 to Nov....... -
Judi Ann Mason dies at 54; playwright and screenwriter
![Judi Ann Mason, an award-winning playwright and a film and television writer who launched her TV career on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times" and later co-wrote the 1993 movie comedy "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit," has died. She was 54.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-07/48087264-15223851.jpg "Judi Ann Mason, an award-winning playwright and a film and television writer who launched her TV career on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times\" and later co-wrote the 1993 movie comedy \"Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,\" has died. She was 54.")
Judi Ann Mason, an award-winning playwright and a film and television writer who launched her TV career on the 1970s sitcom "Good Times" and later co-wrote the 1993 movie comedy "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit," has died. She was 54.
Mason died July 8...Tags: NBC (tv network), Family, Hospitals and Clinics, Television, University of California, Los Angeles
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Friday's TV Highlights: Celebrities turn out to help Haiti
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of Jan 17 - 23, in PDF format This week's TV Movies ‘HOPE FOR HAITI NOW’: The stars come out to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti...... -
Casting for the stage should be color-blind
![There's a wonderful old theater story about Laurence Olivier in the 1960s — he was playing in "Othello" and receiving generally glowing notices opposite Frank Findlay and a young actress by the name of Maggie Smith. One night, however, as he stormed through the jealous general's odyssey, Olivier seemed to be on fire (not literally, of course, because that would be painful, and, while certainly an interesting if too literal take on the Moor's passionate histrionics, pretty "out there" as an interpretation of Shakespeare, even for the '60s).](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/29536550-04204444.jpg "There's a wonderful old theater story about Laurence Olivier in the 1960s — he was playing in "Othello\" and receiving generally glowing notices opposite Frank Findlay and a young actress by the name of Maggie Smith. One night, however, as he stormed through the jealous general's odyssey, Olivier seemed to be on fire (not literally, of course, because that would be painful, and, while certainly an interesting if too literal take on the Moor's passionate histrionics, pretty \"out there\" as an interpretation of Shakespeare, even for the '60s).")
Special to The TimesThere's a wonderful old theater story about Laurence Olivier in the 1960s — he was playing in "Othello" and receiving generally glowing notices opposite Frank Findlay and a young actress by the name of Maggie Smith. One night, however, as he stormed...Tags: Theater, Metal and Mineral, Music Theater, Arts and Culture, Al Sharpton
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Small town, large impact
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Sundance Film Festival is always the most paradoxical of events, and this year's edition is shaping up as no exception. This most important of American film festivals opens Thursday night in an enthusiastic town -- Park City, Utah -- that is...Tags: Family, Film Festivals, Drama (genre), Quentin Tarantino, Festive Events
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ABC's 'Raisin' Finally Sees the Sun
Zap2It.comThe world of television will be in for a rare sighting of one of its most endangered species later this season: a pair of somewhat prestigious made-for-TV movies on a broadcast network not called CBS. ABC, which develops telefilms only sporadically these...Tags: Conservation, Movies, Television, Oprah Winfrey, Sean John Combs
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ABC Picks 'Raisin' with Combs
Zap2It.comSean "Diddy" Combs and ABC are bringing a version of the classic play "A Raisin in the Sun" to television. The movie adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's play will star Combs and his castmates from the Tony-winning revival that debuted on Broadway in 2004....Tags: Louis Gossett Jr., Music Theater, Movies, Television, Tuskegee Airmen
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ABC's 'Raisin' Plucks Stamos
Zap2It.comJohn Stamos and ABC parted ways earlier this year on less than happy terms, with the network scuttling the second season of his show "Jake in Progress" after just one episode. The actor apparently isn't holding too big a grudge, however, as he's signed...Tags: Family, NBC (tv network), The Hollywood Reporter, Movies, Hospitals and Clinics
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Cheering on San Francisco
Special to The TimesUntil I moved to San Francisco, I thought holiday travel destinations came in three flavors: the London of Carolers-in-Victorian-Costumes-Bring-Us-Some-Figgy-Pudding, the New York of Miracle-on-34th-Street-and-Rockettes-in-Reindeer-Antlers and the...Tags: Kwanzaa, Music Theater, Dance, Dancing, Family
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August Wilson's plays shepherded by his collaborator Lloyd Richards
Sun Theater CriticA small, round man with a graying goatee and a whisper-soft voice, Lloyd Richards has been called everything from "the theatrical Duke Ellington" to a "black Santa Claus." He's also been described this way: "He's a big man but he don't act like a big...Tags: Theater, Music Theater, Eugene O'Neill, Duke Ellington, Princeton University
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