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Remy Bumppo announces 2013-14 slate
Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theatre Company has announced its 2013-14 season. The ensemble based, Equity-affiliated company begins the year with the U.S. premiere of a new adaptation by Tim Luscombe of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey," slated for October. In... -
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies at 85; Oscar-winning screenwriter
For years, people who read Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novels assumed she was born in India. She wrote about swamis, social climbers, duplicitous landlords and other characters from the Indian bourgeoisie who inevitably found themselves colliding with...
Tags: Asthma, James Ivory, Nazi Party, Shirley MacLaine, England
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Chicago Improv Festival schedule includes TV funny folks
RedEyeIt's like stuffing a car full of clowns ... A carload of TV stars with Chicago ties are among the 765 artists set to make funny April 1-7 at the 16th annual Chicago Improv Festival. "I'm thrilled that Craig and I will finally get to make stuff up for...Tags: Wicked (musical), NBC (tv network), Schaumburg, Lucas Neff, Music Theater
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History repeats itself
Debra Anne Miller, a Chicago area historical impersonator, performs as Jane Austen for a crowd at the Batavia Public Library on March 21. Austen's book, Pride and Prejudice, was this year's selection for "One Book, One Batavia" and the library planned...
Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture
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Theater review: 'Sense and Sensibility' from Orlando Shakespeare Theater
A pleasure of delving into a novel is getting to know its many characters, their quirks and their dreams. That makes adapting a novel for the stage, as Jon Jory has done with Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," tricky business. The romantic drama...
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Miller: No clear winner in Oscar contest
For some in Newport-Mesa, the 85th annual Academy Awards telecast may have prompted a three-word response: "Oh, hey, guys." Within minutes of the show's beginning, William Shatner, who recently brought his one-man show to the Segerstrom Center for the...
Tags: Animation (Movie Genre), Christoph Waltz, Robert De Niro, Argo (movie), Academy Awards
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Review: 'Rust and Bone' defines romance in its own way
Los Angeles Times Film CriticRomantic but pitiless, fearlessly emotional as well as edgy, "Rust and Bone" is a powerhouse. It's the kind of risky venture only a consummate filmmaker could manage, and then only with the help of actors who are daring and accomplished. With director...Tags: Bullhead (movie), A Prophet (movie), France, Movies, Christopher Nolan
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Caldecott, Newbery Medals awarded by American Library Assn.
The American Library Assn. announced its 2013 book award winners Monday at its annual national conference, held this year in Seattle. While the best-known awards are the John Newbery Medal and the Caledecott Medal, there are dozens of awards, each of...Tags: Libraries, Services and Shopping, Book, Sinking of the Titanic (1912), Steve Jobs
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Sundance darlings eye alternative distribution platforms
Not that long ago, premiering a star-driven Sundance Film Festival movie on a video-on-demand channel was an admission of failure. But last year's festival produced two huge on-demand hits, Richard Gere's crime drama "Arbitrage" and Kirsten Dunst's...Tags: Beasts of the Southern Wild (movie), Customs and Tradition, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Politics, Sundance Film Festival
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What's happening to CalArts' literary journal Black Clock?
This post has been updated. Please see below for details. The California Institute of the Arts launched its literary journal Black Clock in 2004 with pieces by some of the best writers of the moment: David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Lethem, Aimee Bender...
Tags: David Foster Wallace, Education, Colleges and Universities, Periodicals, Middlebury
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College student can make a date with Cupid
Dear Amy: I'm a college student and participate in a club at college. We often work with another club, our "sister club," at a nearby university. My friend "Mark" was hired to be a supervisor for the other school's club. I'm really happy about that...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Reviews, Teaching and Learning
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200 Years of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Latest timelinesJan. 28 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. While the book was popular in the author's day, she could never have imagined how beloved it would become. Here are 200 years of the ups and occasional downs...
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