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Using images to change history
The civil rights movement was full of dynamic and evocative images. Today, even many of us born after its iconic moments were captured on film can describe Martin Luther King Jr.'s outstretched arm pointing a sea of people toward a future decades beyond...Tags: Baltimore County, Manhattan (New York City), Muhammad Ali, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The House I Live In" Explores the Toll Of Drugs and Harsh Sentencing
The House I Live In At Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, realartways.org, from Friday, March 15 through Thursday, March 21. Eugene Jarecki's wrenching documentary on our failed national War on Drugs, "The House I Live In," in some senses...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Real Art Ways, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Justice System
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Oscar Micheaux: A legend's links
Leroy Collins never says anything about it. He never tells his neighbors he was once a movie star — once. Collins is 89 and lives by himself in the Montgomery Place retirement community in Hyde Park. Scientists who worked on the Manhattan...
Tags: Music, James Earl Jones, Robert Earl, Charlie Chaplin, The Conquest (movie)
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A Classical Voice For Hartford Stage's 'Breath & Imagination'
The Hartford CourantJubilant Sykes has sung classical and spiritual music at the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London's Barbican Centre and the Hollywood Bowl. But Hartford Stage is a decidedly different venue for a veteran of...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Helen Hunt, Music, Awards and Prizes, Kennedy Center Honors
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Who's Breathing and Imaginative in the New Play-With-Music Breath & Imagination at Hartford Stage
Breath & Imagination, Hartford Stage's new show (running Jan. 11 through Feb. 9) about groundbreaking African-American lyrical tenor vocalist Roland Hayes, has announced its cast. It’s a small cast—two singers and a piano accompanist, but...Tags: Shrek (fictional character), Music, Arts and Culture, Music Theater, Concerts
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Spurring a Conversation About Faith at Hartford Stage
The new Hartford Stage show Breath & Imagination is living up to its name by breathing fresh air into the music-theater genre and adding imaginative touches to everything from the casting to the post-show discussions. The show is a biography of...
Tags: Long Wharf Theatre, Shrek (fictional character), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Music, Jeff Foxworthy
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Tom Frey Cast In Premiere of "Breath & Imagination" At Hartford Stage
Hartford Courant++++++++++++++++++++ || ++++++++++++++++++++ || ++++++++++++++++++++ || Actor-pianist Tom Frey joins the previously announced Jubilant Sykes and Kecia Lewis-Evans the cast in Hartford Stage's world premiere of "Breath & Imagination -- The Story of...Tags: Music, Theater, Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Music Theater
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Lookingglass captures the ambiguity of baseball's barrier-shattering moment
![THEATER REVIEW: "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting" at Lookingglass Theatre ★★★½ ... There's a moment in "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting" when Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, throws a crumpled shirt into the arms of Jackie Robinson.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-01/67398178-15162400.jpg "THEATER REVIEW: "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting\" at Lookingglass Theatre ★★★½ ... There's a moment in \"Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting\" when Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, throws a crumpled shirt into the arms of Jackie Robinson.")
There's a moment in "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting," the terrific new show at the Lookingglass Theatre, when the caller of the 1947 meeting, Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, throws a crumpled shirt into the arms of Jackie...Tags: Water Supply, Sports, Arts and Culture, Water Tower, Steppenwolf Theatre
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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... -
Md. Historical Society wants to identify subjects of Civil Rights era photos
Images of nearly 6,000 Baltimoreans are the life's work of a photographer who documented racial segregation and early civil rights protests, and also captured candid moments of now-anonymous brides, classmates, football players and black residents of...Tags: Photography, College Sports, Bolton Hill, Arts, Arts and Culture
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History Lesson
Anyone ever tell you history is dull, tedious and irrelevant? Not us. And for some particularly fascinating and relevant insights into black history, ditch the textbooks and head to these stage shows, which explore everything from the politics in...Tags: Branch Rickey, Music, Awards and Prizes, Awards and Prizes, Music Theater
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Nov 27, 2012
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Feb 23, 2012
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Jan 25, 2012
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