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'Downton Abbey' star Dan Stevens cast in Broadway's 'The Heiress'
Dan Stevens, who plays Matthew Crawley in the transatlantic hit television drama "Downton Abbey," will make his Broadway debut later this year in a revival of "The Heiress," starring Jessica Chastain. Stevens will play the role of Morris Townsend, a...
Tags: Downton Abbey (tv program), Arts and Culture, Richard Chamberlain, David Strathairn, Tom Stoppard
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Lyric Opera draws on fiscal reserves to break even for year
Compared with just about every other company in the business, Lyric Opera of Chicago continues to ride above the economic turbulence that is buffeting so many of the nation's other not-for-profit performing arts organizations. Not soaring, but riding....
Tags: Politics, Opera (genre), Oscar Hammerstein, Political Fundraising, Andrew Davis
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My Top 10 Shows On Connecticut Stages This Past Season
Hartford CourantI remember this time last year when it came time to review the theater season in Connecticut. I felt pretty discouraged. Sure there was plenty of fine work but few shows really knocked my critical socks off with the kind of productions that you...Tags: Oscar Hammerstein, TheaterWorks, Music, Yale Repertory Theatre, Brian Dennehy
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Around Town: 'Mean Streets' pays tribute to Fellini film
24 Frames."I Vitelloni," a 1953 semi-autobiographical drama about five male friends living in a small Italian town, is considered one of the watershed moments in Fedrico Fellini's career. The film is screening Friday through Wednesday at the New Beverly Cinema... -
Walk, don't run to 'The All Night Strut!'
"The All Night Strut!" is really more of a stroll. The revue of 1930s and 1940s standards playing through April 29 at Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs just doesn't have the gait of a strut. At times, it even slows down to a promenade. This isn't to...
Tags: Charlie Parker, Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer
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Rhapsody in Gershwin: BSO salutes George and Ira
Another pops program devoted to George Gershwin? Why not? This weekend's Gershwin feast being presented on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's SuperPops series will hardly be the last.
Nearly 75 years after his death at the age of 39, the composer's...Tags: Culture, Ira Gershwin, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Concerts, Poetry
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Costa Mesa Taxpayers Assn. to host city charter discussion
COSTA MESA — City CEO Tom Hatch, Mayor Pro Tem Jim Righeimer and Councilman Steve Mensinger will join a panel discussion hosted by the Costa Mesa Taxpayers Assn. on a proposed city charter hosted Thursday at the Neighborhood Community Center. The...Tags: Colin McCarthy
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Taxpayers Assn. charter discussion full of anti-union talk
COSTA MESA — At the Costa Mesa Taxpayers Assn. meeting meant to inform the public about a proposed city charter, audience members also got an earful of anti-union rhetoric. Nearly 100 audience members gathered at the Neighborhood Community Center...Tags: Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Wage Contract Issues, Collective Contract, Labor Legislation
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Suburban school districts have board members' relatives on payroll
In Lansing School District 158, the payroll looks a little like a family tree.
At least 14 relatives of school board members — from spouses to kids to grandkids — have landed jobs, with taxpayers paying the tab of some $550,000 in the last...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Values, Chicago Tribune, Theft, Punishment
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New book says the piano is most important instrument of all
Culture MonsterDespite its full title of “A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians – from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between,” the book is intentionally not encyclopedic. Its vignette-like structure... -
'Downton Abbey' pays homage to Jerome Kern musical
Culture Monster"Downton Abbey" introduced the phonograph to the Crawley household in Sunday's episode of the Masterpiece Classic series. The younger members of the family are instantly enamored -- perhaps none more so than Lady Mary and her distant cousin Matthew, who... -
Pasadena Pops' Marvin Hamlisch just wants to have fun
In spite of a few shiny awards for his mantel — three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and a little prize named for some guy called Pulitzer — there's still plenty of ham in Marvin Hamlisch, who takes the stage at Pasadena Pops on...Tags: Human Interest, The Sting (movie), New York, Marvin Hamlisch, Academy Awards
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