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John Cunningham, Jordan Lage in "Ride The Tiger" At Long Wharf Theatre
Hartford CourantJohn Cunningham is Joe, Douglas Sills is John and Jordan Lage is Sam in William Mastrosimone's new play, "Ride the Tiger" slated for New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre. And if you want to assume they're Joe Kennedy, JFK and mobster Sam Giancano, well, there...Tags: Long Wharf Theatre, Entertainment Events, Frank Sinatra, Susan Lucci, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Shia LeBeouf tweets about backstage drama with Alec Baldwin
Mix two actors with reputations for passion and stormy personalities and it's not surprising things did not turn out as planned for an upcoming Broadway production of "Orphans" that was to have starred Shia LeBeouf and Alec Baldwin. LeBeouf quit the...
Tags: Al Pacino, Celebrities, Academy Awards, Entertainment Events, Twitter, Inc.
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It's an Oscar-centric weekend at the academy and Cinematheque
With the 85th Academy Awards taking place Sunday at the Dolby Theatre, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Cinematheque are presenting Oscar-related programs that shine the spotlight on nominees in various fields. Actor...
Tags: Blu-ray Discs, Tim Burton, Rob Riggle, Academy Awards, Amour (movie)
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Confronting artist Kara Walker
Kara Walker will be difficult. This gets whispered to you by enough people in the art world and you start to believe it: She's humorless! Confrontational! Intimidating! David Mamet intimidating! And this week, before the Thursday opening of “...
Tags: Museums, Arts, Charles M. Schulz, Mark Twain, Cartoons
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Shia LaBeouf quits Broadway play over 'creative differences'
Shia LaBeouf won't be making his Broadway debut this season after all. The 26-year-old actor has quit the upcoming revival production of the play "Orphans" in New York over "creative differences," according to a news release sent Wednesday. LaBeouf has...
Tags: Disney Channel (tv network), Indiana Jones (fictional character), Celebrities, Al Pacino, Shia LaBeouf
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Watch 'Family Guy' take on Broadway in theater-themed episode
[This post has been updated.] "Family Guy" on Fox gave its satirical regards to Broadway on Sunday in a new episode in which Brian and Stewie face off as rival playwrights battling for supremacy in the Griffin household. Sunday's episode featured...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Seth MacFarlane, Music, Music Theater, Tony Awards
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Helen Mirren's star gets a prime spot on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Helen Mirren, Oscar winner for her performance in 2007's "The Queen," was queen for a day in Hollywood on Thursday, receiving the 2,488th star on the Walk of Fame. She even had a king to attend to her in her new home. "The 'queen's' star," said Leron...
Tags: Google Inc., Jon Turteltaub, Tom LaBonge, Taylor Hackford, Social Media
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Daniel Pink says we're all salesmen in 'To Sell Is Human'
One in nine of us works in sales, according to the U.S. government. The other eight in nine of us work in... sales, according to Daniel Pink. We just don't sell it as such. "They're not stalking customers in a furniture showroom, but they — make...
Tags: Schools, Colleges and Universities, Jeff Bezos, The New York Times, Science
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Movie gangsters so bad they're good
One hundred and one years ago, D.W. Griffith gave us "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," often credited as the first gangster film, and once sound came in, nothing hooked movie audiences during the early 1930s more reliably than Edward G. Robinson or James...
Tags: Sean Penn, Niels Arestrup, Edward G. Robinson, The Untouchables (movie), World War II (1939-1945)
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'Gangster Squad' a fusillade of bullets and cliches ★★
A triumph of production design but a pretty dull kill-'em-up otherwise, the post-World War II-set "Gangster Squad" comes from the director of "Zombieland," Ruben Fleischer. It's clear Fleischer, who also made "30 Minutes or Less," hadn't worked through...
Tags: Michael Pena, Sean Penn, The Untouchables (movie), World War II (1939-1945), Gangster Squad (movie)
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Our town was Wilder's town too
Chicago makes a claim on many writers — Nelson Algren, David Mamet, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg — even if those scribes spent only a portion of their lives within its sweet confines. But Thornton Wilder, the author of such iconic plays...
Tags: Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut), China, Art Institute of Chicago, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Chris Jones
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On New York stages, a year full of letdowns
The year 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II might have said, was quite the annus horribilis on Broadway. Especially after the leaves started to turn. Consider the less-than-regal disappointments. "The Anarchist," the polemical new play by David Mamet, closed...Tags: William Shakespeare, Leap of Faith (musical), Porgy and Bess (movie), Steppenwolf Theatre, Newsies (musical)
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