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Stephen Sondheim: Merrily he rolls along
![Stately and rumpled, Stephen Sondheim descended from an upper floor of his elegant East Side townhouse and submitted to the interview as though it were a necessary barber shop shave. He's used to these intrusions — the artist obliged to natter on about his work was one of the themes of "Sunday in the Park With George" — but this year the distractions have gone to a harrying new extreme.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-11/57439848-07181709.jpg "Stately and rumpled, Stephen Sondheim descended from an upper floor of his elegant East Side townhouse and submitted to the interview as though it were a necessary barber shop shave. He's used to these intrusions — the artist obliged to natter on about his work was one of the themes of "Sunday in the Park With George\" — but this year the distractions have gone to a harrying new extreme.")
Stately and rumpled, Stephen Sondheim descended from an upper floor of his elegant East Side townhouse and submitted to the interview as though it were a necessary barber shop shave. He's used to these intrusions — the artist obliged to natter on...Tags: Oscar Hammerstein, Poetry, Lincoln Center, Gaming, Livestock Farming
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A judgmental Randy Newman likes what he sees
In his songs, Randy Newman has invented enough characters to stock a season's worth of Broadway musicals. Regretful lovers. Scared school boys. Unreconstructed rednecks. Blissfully smug Angelenos. An oddly contemporary Karl Marx. And, of course, short...Tags: Benvenuto Cellini, Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, Music, Tony Awards
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Cruising Asia's modern miracles and ancient wonders aboard the Ocean Princess
Special to the Los Angeles TimesOn a windy, showery February evening midway through our 16-night cruise from Laem Chabang, Thailand, to Shanghai, my wife, Laurel, and I stood on the balcony of our stateroom aboard the Ocean Princess, berthed at the tip of the Kowloon Peninsula. Across...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Tour Operations Industry, Super Bowl, Bars and Clubs, Hotels and Accommodations
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Book review: 'The Widower's Tale' by Julia Glass
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Widower's Tale A Novel Julia Glass Pantheon: 402 pp., $25.95 The outspokenly fuddy-duddy 70-year-old patriarch at the center of "The Widower's Tale," Julia Glass' class-consciousness-raising new novel, is a recently retired Harvard librarian named...Tags: Norman Rockwell, Migration, Oncology, Health, Politics
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On Theater: Artistic director takes final bow
The Laguna Playhouse is gearing up to celebrate its 90th (that's right, 90th) season in 2010-11, but somehow it won't be quite the same as the past 20.
Andrew Barnicle, the playhouse's popular and highly skilled artistic director, who has held the...Tags: David Mamet
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Should whites direct black plays, and vice versa?
![Seated around a large table during the first week of rehearsal for "The Night Is a Child," director Sheldon Epps guides his actors' investigation of a scene between an American woman and the hotel owner she encounters in Brazil. He asks them about the differences between Boston and Brazil, the grayness versus the color, and the contrasts that these first scenes must embody.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48884760-27161805.jpg "Seated around a large table during the first week of rehearsal for "The Night Is a Child,\" director Sheldon Epps guides his actors' investigation of a scene between an American woman and the hotel owner she encounters in Brazil. He asks them about the differences between Boston and Brazil, the grayness versus the color, and the contrasts that these first scenes must embody.")
Seated around a large table during the first week of rehearsal for "The Night Is a Child," director Sheldon Epps guides his actors' investigation of a scene between an American woman and the hotel owner she encounters in Brazil. He asks them about the...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Employers, Culture, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Employment
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Five ideal stage roles for George Clooney
Culture MonsterGeorge Clooney has three new movies making the international festival rounds -- "Up in the Air," "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "The Men Who Stare at Goats" -- but maybe what he really wants to do is return to the stage....... -
Album review: Robbie Williams' 'Reality Killed the Video Star'
Pop & Hiss"This is a song full of metaphors," Robbie Williams sneers over some dusted-off mid-1970s guitar crunch in the party anthem "Do You Mind," which comes right in the middle of this bullishly diverse album. What song isn't? Dwelling on the...... -
Reviews this week: On Bob Dylan, scandalous women and epistolary bliss
Jacket CopyThis week in our pages, Kris Lindgren reviewed the new graphic novel interpretation of Bob Dylan's songs in "Bob Dylan Revisited." She's impressed with some of the art -- but might be just as happy listening to an old album....... -
'The Browning Version': Terence Rattigan lives at Pacific Resident Theatre
Culture MonsterLooking for a drama that will provide psychologically complex characters, sparkling dialogue and a resonant emotional payoff, all packaged in an intriguing plot that takes less than 90 minutes to unfold? Terence Rattigan’s “The Browning Version,”... -
To smoke or not to smoke, that is the question
Culture MonsterThe Jersey Boys do it. Estelle Parsons does it regularly in "August: Osage County." Practically every actor who's been in a Noel Coward play has done it too. Smoking onstage by performers is a commonplace occurrence that most theater professionals...... -
A conversation with playwright Alan Bennett
Culture MonsterOver the past half-century, Bennett has produced a slew of pieces for stage, screen and printed page that provide telling portraits -- thoughtful, funny, poignant and bawdy -- of the English and English life. His mega-hit "The History Boys" opened......
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