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The wandering camera
A storage unit, a garage, a car, a professor's office and a tent on a campsite. These are only a few of the 24 Irvine spots where Richard Newton bunked over two years in the early 1970s. This nomadic life — the yearning to feel out new...
Tags: University of California, Irvine, Museums, Movies, Arts, Science and Technology
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Theater Review: 'Heart of Darkness' illuminates Joseph Conrad's words
Actors' Gang stalwart Brian T. Finney invites us to once again venture deep into the interior of the African Congo in his adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," now at the Ivy Substation. This stripped-down Actors' Gang production zooms in...
Tags: Congo, Celebrities
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Don't be swayed by gay marriage polls
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it." -- Abraham Lincoln History is full of warnings about what happens when people follow public opinion instead of...Tags: Judges, U.S. Supreme Court, Crime, Law and Justice, Marriage, Justice System
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Chicago catches a 'Big Fish'
NEW YORK — A man in a Manhattan rehearsal room asks a young boy a question: "No soccer game this week?" A look crosses the kid's face. You can read love, loneliness, contempt. "It's not soccer season anymore, Dad." Chastened, the man talks of...
Tags: Les Miserables (movie), John August, Entertainment, Celebrities, Silver Linings Playbook (movie)
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Writers' Theatre season includes 'Gabler'
Kate Fry will star as Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" as part of the 2013-14 season at Writers' Theatre Chicago. Kimberly Senior will direct the new production of the famously passionate drama for a January opening. The fall at Writers' Theatre, located...Tags: Arts and Culture, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Authors
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‘Hansel & Gretel’ star Gemma Arterton finds her inner action hero
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comSo far in her Hollywood career, Gemma Arterton has played a Bond girl, a Persian princess and a Greek goddess ...... -
Taking note of a wave of shorter plays
As artistic director of L.A.'s Center Theatre Group, Michael Ritchie reads more than a play a day on average — perhaps 500 a year — in quest of the 15 or 16 he'll pick each season for his company's three stages. But lately he's noticed...
Tags: Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Michael Ritchie, Goodman Theatre, John Hurt
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Henrik Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People' remains scarily timely and timeless
Pop2it"An Enemy of the People" asks important questions about free speech, environmental disasters and the rich expecting the poor to suffer an undue tax burden. Considering recent events such as the BP disaster, Wall Street greed and the one percent, then none... -
'An Enemy of the People' Playing at The Quick Center in Fairfield
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was ahead of his time. His realistic pieces were shocking and scandalous when he wrote them, but he didn't give a damn. The issues he dealt with then are still relevant today, though it's no longer considered taboo material. It is...
Tags: Fairfield University
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50 monologues expose 'My America' at Center Stage
When Kwame Kwei-Armah left London to move to Baltimore, he was exploding with questions about this strange land on the other side of the Atlantic, where he was planting not just himself, but also his wife and young son. "As I was starting to find my...
Tags: Neil LaBute, Baltimore Book Festival, Denzel Washington, Death Penalty, Celebrities
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Theaters On Political Wave? Not This Election in Connecticut
With the closing of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" last week, the most politically direct show on Broadway has left the stage. It has also got me to thinking about theater and politics during these last few weeks of a major presidential campaign. I look...Tags: Wethersfield, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Elections, Gore Vidal, Music
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Why Hedda Endures
The Hartford CourantThere's something about Hedda. "Hedda Gabler," that is, the titular character in Henrik Ibsen's classic "new woman" tale, the original housewife of Oslo County, the gal who has attitude, aptitude and is one mean shot. The inscrutable character has...Tags: Kate Mulgrew, Wethersfield, Diana Rigg, Martha Plimpton, Kelly McGillis
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