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Tony Awards 2012: 'Clybourne Park' by Bruce Norris wins best play
"Clybourne Park," the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama by Bruce Norris, won the Tony for new play. The critically acclaimed play, which ran at Playwrights Horizons in New York, the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the Mark Taper...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Arts and Culture, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Music Theater
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Tony Awards 2012: From L.A. to the Great White Way
The Tony Awards may be the toast of Broadway, but there were Champagne glasses being raised for some of Sunday's victors who have roots in Southern California. The most noteworthy production was "Clybourne Park," which was named best play. The Pulitzer...
Tags: Other Desert Cities (play), Entertainment, Judith Light, Clybourne Park (play), London Theatre
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Sherman Hemsley dies at 74; star of TV's 'The Jeffersons'
Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of television viewers as Archie Bunker's bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in"All in the Family" and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, "The Jeffersons," has died. He was...
Tags: Carroll O'Connor, NBC (tv network), Manhattan (New York City), All in the Family (tv program) , Comedy (genre)
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Tony Awards: 'Clybourne Park,' 'Once' are big winners
Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a sharp-toothed satirical drama about the vagaries of race and real estate, won for best play, and "Once," a starry-eyed romance centered on an Irish street musician and a Czech immigrant flower seller, topped the best...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Music, Entertainment, AIDS, Judith Light
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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: John Cheever, Gunter Grass, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, Milan Kundera
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More with Amandeep Sandhu
As promised, here's the continuation of Rosalia Scalia's thoughtful Q&A with Indian novelist Amandeep Sandhu. He touches on inspirations, the challenge of writing in another language, and the role that emotion plays in great writing.
RS: You said that in...Tags: Culture, Music, Entertainment, Jerzy Kosinski, Social Sciences
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Harry Belafonte to receive Indiana Black Expo 'Living Legend Award'
Entertainment legend and social activist Harry Belafonte will highlight the list of awardees at the Indiana Black Expo, Inc. Corporate Luncheon Friday, July 20 – a cornerstone event of the 42nd Annual Summer Celebration presented by 1.800.QUIT.NOW....
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Human Rights, Harry Belafonte, Justice and Rights
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Christopher Shinn's "Now Or Later" Gets U.S. Premiere At Huntington
Hartford CourantChristopher Shinn's political drama, "Now or Later," will have its U.S. premiere at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company this fall. Michael Wilson, former artistic director of Hartford Stage, will direct the play which runs Oct. 12 to Nov. 10 at the...Tags: Wethersfield, Ralph Ellison, Entertainment, M (movie), Harold Pinter
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A hidden cause of Baltimore's population loss: abortion
Population increase is a natural sign of political health. By that measure, Baltimore has been sick a long time. Six straight decades of depopulation have reduced the city by a third. Seeking not only to halt this bad case of "the dreaded shrinks" but...Tags: Feminism, Symptoms, Symptoms, Health, Customs and Tradition
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Theater review: 'A Raisin in the Sun' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Culture MonsterThe Ebony Repertory Theatre production of "A Raisin in Sun," directed by Phylicia Rashad, opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.... -
Theater review: 'Clybourne Park' at the Mark Taper Forum
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Ivy grows in students' 'Raisin in the Sun' garden
L.A. at HomeCulver City High School art students were inspired by "A Raisin in the Sun" to create a garden art installation that's outside the Kirk Douglas Theatre, where the classic American play is being performed....
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