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Actor Blair Underwood On Starring In Broadway's 'A Street Car Named Desire'
PIX11.comActor Blair Underwood is the first African-American man to star in a Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." He stopped by live to talk about this Tennessee Williams classic which has has extended its Broadway run to Aug. 19. This season,...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, A Streetcar Named Desire (movie), Entertainment Events, Wood Harris, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Actor Ben Gazzara Dead At 81
Chicago Tribune ReporterLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Ben Gazzara, known for his brooding tough-guy presence in dozens of films, television shows and stage productions over his long career, died of pancreatic cancer on Friday at a Manhattan hospital, his lawyer said. He was 81....Tags: The Big Lebowski (movie), Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Ben Gazzara, Television
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Broadway to Honor Lengendary Actor Paul Newman
On Friday night, Broadway theaters will dim their lights at curtain time to honor late, legendary film actor Paul Newman. Newman, who died late last week from complications of lung cancer, starred in a number of Broadway productions early in his long and...Tags: Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Connecticut, Celebrities, Music Theater
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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: Milan Kundera, James Baldwin, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce
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Judith Ivey To Star In Sam Shepard Play At Long Wharf
Hartford CourantMultiple Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey will star in Sam Shepard's "Cirse of the Starving Class" in early 2013 at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre. The announmcement will be made Monday night, along with the other shows slated for the 2012-13 season for the...Tags: Entertainment Events, Sam Shepard, James Woods, Arts and Culture, Yale Repertory Theatre
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Satchmo Play, Judith Ivey, World Premieres Highlight Long Wharf Theatre Season
Hartford CourantThe return of Judith Ivey, a "world premiere" work about Louis Armstrong and the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" are among the shows for the 2012-13 season at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. The 48th season opens with the new one-person...Tags: Louis Armstrong, Entertainment Events, TheaterWorks, Frank Sinatra, Sam Shepard
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Great Old Broad Series: Estelle Parsons
Last Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I'll post a series of these...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Barbra Streisand, The New York Times, Music, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Playhouse 90': Now that's quality TV
Fun with television history: In honor of the recent succession of wonderful cable TV shows ("Mad Men," "True Blood," "Nurse Jackie,""Justified,""Homeland,""Dexter,""The Walking Dead,""Breaking Bad," "Magic City" and so on), we're going to time-travel to...
Tags: Charlton Heston, Errol Flynn, Claudette Colbert, Johnny Carson, Piper Laurie
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Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner may play married pair on Broadway
Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner could be the latest A-listers hitting the boards. The pair, who co-star as superheroes in the expected blockbuster "The Avengers" opening Friday, could be Broadway bound as husband and wife in a revival of Tennessee...
Tags: Jeremy Renner, Entertainment Events, Off-Broadway Theater, Nick Jonas, Scarlett Johansson
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Emily Mann a natural to direct 'Streetcar' and 'The Convert'
NEW YORK — New Yorker drama critic John Lahr set off a social media firestorm in December with a blog comment that called for a moratorium on those "infernal all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays unless we can have their equal in folly:...
Tags: Facebook, Debbie Allen, A Streetcar Named Desire (movie), Eliza Doolittle (music group), Kirk Douglas
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Stephen King, John Mellencamp unveil 'Ghost Brothers' in Atlanta
Culture Monster"Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," a musical by Stephen King and John Mellencamp, opens in Atlanta.... -
Review: Tamara Braun in intimate 'Tennessee in the Summer'
If you’ve been struggling to dissuade your child from becoming a playwright, here’s an easy fix: Take the theatrically inclined scribbler to the Sidewalk Studio Theatre to see “Tennessee in the Summer,” Joe Besecker’s...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Tamara Braun, New York City
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