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'Family' connections: How Phylicia Rashad found Stovall and his play set in Hyde Park
When Phylicia Rashad was cast as a replacement Violet Weston in Anna D. Shapiro's Broadway production of Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County," the Broadway gossip boards were abuzz with the notion of casting an African-American actress, best known for...
Tags: Goodman Theatre, John Cameron Mitchell, Music, Sweden, Emmett Till
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Community succeeds in facing down a killer in 'How to Survive a Plague' ★★★ 1/2
From a terrible epidemic comes a beautiful documentary. More than any other nonfiction work I've seen, with far-reaching intelligence and grace, David France's "How to Survive a Plague" relays what happened in the early years of AIDS. And what didn't...
Tags: How to Survive a Plague (movie), Movies, Music, HIV, Epidemics and Plagues
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New trailer is a first peek at 'August: Osage County' movie
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Today, we are reminded of these universal truths: “Life is very long” (T.S. Eliot). “Family holds us up….Family knocks us down.” And Meryl Streep is poised for a 2013...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Music, Tony Awards, Arts and Culture, Celebrities
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Toronto Film Festival Day 2 recap: The Master's domain!
Here's a Day 2 recap from the Toronto International Film Festival. Everybody sees a different slate of movies each day here. Friday went this way: After the gamer-oriented slaughter of “Dredd 3D,” the fanciful and tricksy theatrics of director...
Tags: Movies, There Will Be Blood (movie), Arts and Culture, Paul Thomas Anderson, Entertainment
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Cheshire's Jonny Orsini To Receive Dorothy Loudon Award
Hartford CourantCheshire’s Jonny Orsini, who is featured opposite Nathan Lane in Broadway’s “The Nance,” won TheaterWorld’s Dorothy Loudon Award for excellence in the theater on or off-Broadway. TheaterWorld annually honors debut...Tags: Florida Film Festival, Newsies (musical), Music, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief
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'Peeples' star Craig Robinson's full plate may get even fuller
For the last nine seasons Craig Robinson has played Darryl, one of the most understated characters on TV. "The Office" may be closing out its ninth and final season next week, but Robinson's profile is about to increase exponentially. He has three...
Tags: Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, Movies, David Alan Grier, Jean Smart
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'Hava Nagila' a song that's a party in itself ★★★
Born in Ukraine, raised in Palestine, the toast of the Catskills and the inevitable guest star at countless Jewish celebrations the world over, the song "Hava Nagila" has pulled many a goy (and I'd like to thank Dave Fantle for letting me crash his...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Music, Ukraine, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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History of the movies journey worth taking
In recent weeks the nervous future of the movies, as a business and as an occasional, accidental art form, has been subjected to unusually heavy scrutiny and speculation online and in print. This comes after an Oscar-sanctified movie year in which...Tags: Douglas Fairbanks, Entertainment, Hugo (movie), Music, The Artist (movie)
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'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other
Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...
Tags: Jason Robards, Movies, There Will Be Blood (movie), Kenneth Branagh, Maya Rudolph
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Broadway review: 'Pippin' pulls off a theatrical high-wire act
NEW YORK — There are shows that revive aging material through revisionism. And there are productions that prefer to celebrate the pull of nostalgia, especially when the songs are great. "Pippin," the brilliant Diane Paulus revival of the...
Tags: Entertainment, Terrence Mann, Entertainment Events, Music, Stephen Schwartz
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Kam Kardashian: Long-lost, totally made-up sister found in Chicago
Anyone with a cellphone and a laptop can make a Web series. But it's tough to pull off something that looks professionally made. Not when there's barely any money involved. There is a huge opportunity here for indie filmmakers, especially those...
Tags: Goodman Theatre, Movies, Music, Arts and Culture, Celebrities
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Latin cinema comes to AMC 600 North
Watch enough new foreign films in a row, and certain things start to stand out. Like the incredible variety of cellphone ring tones used in other countries. They're familiar but just different enough to break your concentration for a moment, like a...Tags: Roger Ebert, Back to the Future (movie), Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Al Capone, Bravo (tv network)
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