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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: TheaterWorks, Helen Mirren, Olympia Dukakis, The Tempest (movie), August Wilson
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"Tartuffe" At Westport Playhouse To Get Additional Performance
Hartford CourantWestport Country Playhouse announces that due to ticket demand for its current production of Molière’s “Tartuffe,” an extra performance has been added on Sunday, Aug. 5, at 3 p.m. The Playhouse production, now playing through Aug. 4,...Tags: Entertainment Events, Richard Wilbur, Westport Country Playhouse, Marc Kudisch, Tony Awards
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Blythe Danner Returns To Williamstown For 'The Blue Deep'
The Hartford CourantBlythe Danner feels right at home on stage in the Berkshire hills. After a 12-year absence, the actress is returning to the Williamstown Theatre Festival that shaped her early career nearly 40 years ago and where she continued to return over the decades....Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gwyneth Paltrow, Festive Events, Boardwalk Empire (tv program), St. Elsewhere (tv program)
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Maxwell Williams Named Associate Artistic Director At Hartford Stage
Hartford CourantMaxwell Williams, resident director at Hartford Stage, is now the new associate artstic director at the theater. He succeeds Hana Sharif. “I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Max over the past year," says artistic director Darko Tresnjak,...Tags: Boeing Co., University of Hartford, Manhattan (New York City), Lincoln Center, Horton Foote
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
David Hyde Pierce Directs Comedy At Williamstown
The Hartford CourantDavid Hyde Pierce says there wasn't a "Eureka!" moment when it occurred to him to set Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners in manors, "The Importance of Being Earnest" with the playwright's characters as transplanted American gangsters in the 1930s....Tags: Princeton University, Festive Events, Music Theater, The New York Times, Kelsey Grammer
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Diane Lane to star in Goodman's 'Sweet Bird of Youth'
Director David Cromer's production of Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" at the Goodman Theatre next season has its star: Diane Lane. She’ll play opposite Finn Wittrock as the drifter Chance Wayne, recently on Broadway in ”Death of a...
Tags: Diane Lane, Superman (fictional character), Goodman Theatre, Nicole Kidman
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Q&A: 'People Like Us' star Chris Pine and director/co-writer Alex Kurtzman
You may or may not know that “People Like Us” star Chris Pine auditioned for “Avatar.” It did not go well. “Sometimes you can leave your car in Burbank, Los Angeles, and walk into a conference room and your back is...
Tags: Channing Tatum, Music, Harrison Ford, Chris Pine, Wrigley Field
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Victor Spinetti dies at 82; Tony winner, actor in Beatles films
Victor Spinetti, a comic actor and raconteur who won a Tony on Broadway and the adoration of Beatles fans when he appeared in three of the Fab Four's movies, died Tuesday in Monmouth, England. He was 82. The cause was cancer, said Barry Burnett, the...
Tags: John Lennon, Music, Drama (genre), World War I (1914-1918), Tony Awards
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Hana S. Sharif, Christopher Baker To Leave Hartford Stage
Hartford CourantChristopher Baker, senior dramaturg, and Hana S. Sharif, associate artistic director, will leave Hartford Stage this month to pursue other facets of their careers, according to an announcement artistic director Darko Tresnjak made to the staff. Baker...Tags: Aetna Inc., Entertainment Events, Drama (genre), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Arts and Culture
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Interview tease: Chris Pine on his awful 'Avatar' audition and Broadway possibilities
Stay tuned in a few weeks for my full Q&A from today's interview with Chris Pine (and director/co-writer Alex Kurtzman) about the family drama "People Like Us," which opens June 29. For now, enjoy the full story behind an audition Pine previously...
Tags: People Like Us (movie), Scarlett Johansson
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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: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Science, Biology, Minority Groups, Joseph Conrad
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