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'Kinky Boots' wins six Tony awards including best musical
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - "Kinky Boots" won six Tony awards on Sunday including the top award of best musical and a prize for its composer, pop queen Cyndi Lauper, as Broadway presented its top honors. Lauper won best score for her first Broadway musical,...Tags: Music Theater, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Theater, Liam Neeson, Sally Field
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Tony Awards 2013, 'Kinky Boots' takes best musical title
The Tonys live... 8:22 p.m.: "Kinky Boots" was named best new musical, bringing its awards haul to six, the most of any production at the 67th annual Tony Awards. The musical, based on the 2005 British movie about a drag queen who saves a shoe factory,...Tags: Music Theater, The American Theatre, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (movie), Once (musical), Awards and Prizes
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Set Designer Creates Maze Magic For 'Twelfth Night' At Hartford Stage
The Hartford CourantFor set designer Alexander Dodge, it often starts with an image. In the case of the visual inspiration of Hartford Stage's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," it was the suggestion of a garden maze by director Darko Tresnjak. The result is...Tags: Hartford Stage, Victor Garber, Long Wharf Theatre, The Tempest (movie), Theater
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Mad Cow Theatre announces 2013-14 season
Mad Cow Theatre's 17th season will include recent Broadway hits "Venus in Fur" and "Other Desert Cities," as well as classics, including Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and the 1970s rock musical "Hair." The annual Orlando Cabaret Festival...
Tags: Music Theater, Music, Wars and Interventions, Theater, Awards and Prizes
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Michael Hainey book raises questions about truth versus family
Say you had a family secret. A juicy one. The kind that speaks volumes about families. And you wrote a book about it. But your family hates the book. Or, at the very least, potentially feels embarrassment from it. Would you still release that book?...
Tags: Authors, Irving Park, Goodman Theatre, Newspaper and Magazine, Book
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As playwrights age, so do perspectives
In his younger days, playwright Jon Robin Baitz was known for his angry young characters, usually in conflict with stubborn members of the older generation. Those bristling, indignant, furious youth fill such plays as "A Fair Country" (produced in Chicago...
Tags: Broadway Theater, Goodman Theatre, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Aliens (movie)
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Winter theater 2013: 10 shows for the cold, from classic 'Caesar' to 'Other Desert Cities'
With Scrooge back under wraps, it's time for the 2013 winter theater season to begin in earnest. There's an especially strong slate of classical works opening between now and the end of March, but the offerings also are as diverse as ever. Among the...
Tags: Music Theater, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Goodman Theatre, Theater, Cy Coleman
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A family's well-kept secrets unspool in the desert
Any writer knows the temptation of using one's family for material. They're immediate and present. Their influence is intense and fundamental. Writers usually justify the act on the grounds of authorial honesty: Since the issues in one's life are forged,...
Tags: Celebrities, Stacy Keach, Goodman Theatre, Arts and Culture, Manhattan (New York City)
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Hartford's 'Water By The Spoonful' Opens Off-Broadway
The Hartford CourantIs it possible to fall in love with all the characters in a play, even those who see themselves as less-than-worthy members of the human race? And then, after more than a year, fall in love with them all over again? That's what happened to me with...Tags: Eugene O'Neill, USA Today, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Music
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Goodman announces 'Desert Cities' casting; cancels a 'Sweet Bird'
The Goodman Theatre has announced casting for its upcoming production of "Other Desert Cities," directed by Jon Robin Baitz. Tracy Michelle Arnold will play Brooke Wyeth (the role originated on Broadway by Rachel Griffiths); the Tony Award-winning...Tags: Goodman Theatre, Tony Awards, Entertainment Events
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Review: Ties bind even as brickbats fly in 'Other Desert Cities'
If like me you come from a mixed family, meaning there are conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats boisterously hashing out their differences at the holiday table, you'll have an easy time recognizing the Wyeth clan gathered to celebrate...
Tags: Robert Foxworth, Iraq War (2003-2011), Suicide, W.H. Auden, Travel
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Justin Long withdraws from 'Other Desert Cities' at Mark Taper
Justin Long has withdrawn from the upcoming Los Angeles premiere of "Other Desert Cities" at the Mark Taper Forum, which is set to begin performances on Nov. 28. Center Theatre Group said that the actor had to leave the play due to "a film commitment."...
Tags: Movies, Robert Foxworth, Theater, Justin Long, Robin Weigert
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