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Canadian couple drive modern twist on Moliere farce
'Tis the season for sucking up at company holiday parties — or, as Frank, the central character in David Ives' "The School for Lies" would put it, this is prime time, baby, for "two-faced pestilential etiquette." Perchance you indulged in a little...
Tags: Mormonism, Holidays, Navy Pier, Entertainment, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
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New Anthology Celebrates Two Centuries of Connecticut Poetry
If states were poets, California would be big and craggy like Robinson Jeffers, but who would Connecticut be? A consensus of Nutmeg Staters might say Wallace Stevens, the stolid, conservative insurance executive by day who, in his spare hours,...
Tags: Dick Allen, Literature, University of Pennsylvania, Poetry, Arts and Culture
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Review: Tartuffe at Westport Country Playhouse
Tartuffe Directed by David Kennedy. English translation by Richard Wilbur. Through Aug. 5 at the Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, Westport. (203) 227-4177; http://www.westportplayhouse.org In the past two decades, there’ve been...
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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: Tennessee Williams, Tony Awards, Long Wharf Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Hartford Stage
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Poet Richard Wilbur helps kick off the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival on June 1
Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Kickoff Weekend June 1-3, Hill-Stead Museum, 35 Mountain Road, Farmington, (860) 677-4787, hillstead.org. It would be hard to find a more accomplished living poet in the world today than Richard Wilbur. In addition to...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry, Arts and Culture, Newspaper and Magazine
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Poetry's Rock Stars Light Up Sunken Garden
When hundreds of people showed up for a outdoor poetry reading in Farmington in 1992, causing a traffic jam, "it dawned on us," said an organizer, "this was going to be a yearly thing." That was an understatement. That first blockbuster evening has...
Tags: James Merrill, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), Poetry, Arts and Culture, Mary Cassatt
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On the eve
Off to a good start, with the cleaning in preparation for Kathleen’s family’s descent upon us this afternoon, accompanied by the lessons and carols from King’s College on the radio. Kathleen and J.P. are finishing up the tapas for...Tags: Holidays, Religious Festivals, Christianity, Anglicanism, Christmas
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Court Theatre to stage 'Jitney,' Moliere and more
Chicago's Court Theatre has announced its 2012-13 season. Bereft of new work or major reinterpretation, it seems notably less ambitious than in recent years, but will likely please those who like to see familiar, well-regarded titles. The season begins...Tags: Hermosa, Entertainment, Drama (genre), Hyde Park, Arts and Culture
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Theater review: 'The Bungler' at A Noise Within
Culture MonsterCharlotte Stoudt reviews A Noise Within's effervescent staging of Molière's "The Bungler"... -
A literary stamp to these three houses
In 1937, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay came close to refusing an honorary degree from New York University when she learned she had been excluded from a reception for male recipients of the doctorate at the Waldorf-Astoria and instead was to have a quiet...Tags: Mystery (genre), Behavioral Conditions, Astoria, Massachusetts, Travel
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A Noise Within announces its first season in its new theater in Pasadena
Culture MonsterA Noise Within will open its new home in Pasadena with a season of Shakespeare and other old favorites as well as some less frequently performed works. The classical repertory company -- which will be marking its 20th anniversary --...... -
Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'
Los Angeles TimesThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...Tags: Diplomacy, Gabriela Mistral, Walt Whitman, Mistral Sailing, Pablo Neruda
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