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Review: 'The Flying Dutchman' is earthbound on opening night
The composer Richard Wagner, born 200 years ago this spring, believed (with justification) that he represented the music of the future. Los Angeles likes to think (with justification?) that it represents the city of the future. The two should be made...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Robert Wilson, Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture
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'Spider-Man' legal battle with Julie Taymor gets new trial date
The expected legal settlement between the producers of the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" and director Julie Taymor has failed to materialize, leading a federal judge in New York to set a new trial date for the ongoing battle. Judge...Tags: Entertainment, U2 (music group), Music, Trials, The New York Times
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Friday's TV Talk Shows: Rick Springfield; Bobby Deen; Julian Assange
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- The Real Estate Story Housing in Los Angeles and nationwide: Madison Hildebrand. (N) 3 a.m. – 5 p.m. Fox Business...
Tags: NBC (tv network), Pauley Perrette, WikiLeaks, LL Cool J, America Ferrera
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Grammys 2013: A magical year for son jarocho
Last week, a group of Latino and Mexican artists up for three Grammy Awards gathered in a narrow Boyle Heights storefront — mostly in the flesh, some via Skype, a few present in spirit. They'd assembled to honor a strain of regional folk music...
Tags: Music, Mexico City, Mexico, Ozomatli (music group), Los Lobos (music group)
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Pasadena Playhouse falls for 'Fallen Angels'
"Fallen Angels," a comedy once considered too scandalous for polite society, opens Sunday at the Pasadena Playhouse. This sly and sexy Noël Coward play may be tame by today's standards, but its 1925 London premiere — starring Tallulah Bankhead...
Tags: Loren Lester, Celebrities, Broadway Theater, Elijah Alexander, Feminism
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Beatlemania hits North Hollywood's Laemmle theater
Robert Zemeckis' feature directorial debut, a sing-a-long and a celebration of John Lennon are among the highlights of Beatles Fest this weekend at the Laemmle Noho 7 theater in North Hollywood. The mini-film festival is part of a city-wide...
Tags: Music, Music Theater, Robert Zemeckis, Ed Sullivan, John Lennon
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Julie Taymor returns to directing with 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
Since being fired in 2011 from the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," director Julie Taymor has kept a relatively low public profile, her time presumably occupied by the ongoing lawsuit between her and the show's producers. Taymor...Tags: Entertainment, Spider-Man (movie), Music, Spider-Man (fictional character), Fort Greene
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PBS series 'Shakespeare Uncovered' to dig deep into Bard's plays
William Shakespare will get the full PBS treatment in "Shakespeare Uncovered," a six-part series announced this week to be shown on three consecutive Friday evenings starting Jan. 25. Each night will feature two hourlong segments, focused on one or...Tags: Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Ben Whishaw, David Tennant, Helen Mirren
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Opera's ever-inquisitive Eric Owens is in high demand
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — But what he really wants to do is conduct … For the next three weeks Eric Owens is playing the supporting role of Sharpless in Los Angeles Opera's "Madame Butterfly," but at age 42, the Philadelphia-born singer has...
Tags: Opera (genre), Orson Welles, Entertainment, Carol Burnett, Music
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'Spider-Man' co-writer to pen tell-all book on Broadway musical
A co-writer for the Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" has reportedly accepted a book deal to tell his side of the story of the troubled mega-production. Glen Berger, who wrote the book for the musical along with Julie Taymor, has inked a...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Music Theater, David Mamet, Spider-Man (fictional character)
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'The Lion King' to surpass 'A Chorus Line' on Broadway
"The Lion King" is set to roar past "A Chorus Line" on Wednesday to become the fifth-longest running show in Broadway history. The Disney musical, directed by Julie Taymor, has been playing for 14 years and nine months. It opened at the New Amsterdam...
Tags: Marvin Hamlisch, Music, Spider-Man (movie), Music Theater, Spider-Man (fictional character)
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Olympia Dukakis Strong, Memorable As Prospera In 'The Tempest'
Hartford CourantThe show: “The Tempest” at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. in the Berkshires, starring Olympia Dukakis. Didn’t we just see “The Tempest?”: Several times, if you count Hartford Stage’s stylish production and...Tags: Tennessee Williams, Christopher Plummer, The Tempest (movie), Celebrities, August Wilson
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