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Gothic hall sets the stage for 'Dracula'
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEThe Passion of Dracula: First Folio Theatre (formerly First Folio Shakespeare Festival) kicks off its first season under a new moniker and in a new space in the Peabody Mansion. The company has been using a smaller library space for their indoor shows,...Tags: Des Plaines, Music Theater, Peter Gallagher, Oak Brook, Park Forest
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'The House of Blue Leaves'
Times Theater CriticGROPING for a comfortable moral in John Guare's classic black comedy "The House of Blue Leaves," which opened Sunday at the Mark Taper Forum in a sensational revival directed by Nicholas Martin, is a little like asking an escaped felon for some friendly...Tags: Lincoln Center, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), California, Michael Ritchie
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J. BUCK JABAILY
J. Buck Jabaily is the artistic director of the Single Carrot Theatre on North Avenue. Jabaily and his friends founded the theater in Colorado in 2005 when they graduated from college, and they held their first show in Baltimore in January 2007. Jabaily...Tags: Elia Kazan, John Steinbeck, Stella Adler, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Clurman
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Not a Good 'Girl'
The critics cheered two years ago, when "Awake and Sing," Clifford Odets' leftist drama about a Jewish family in the Depression, received a long overdue Broadway revival. Odets' "Golden Boy" will be revived in the next two years, and some theater...Tags: Bing Crosby, Broadway, Grace Kelly, Music Theater, Peter Gallagher
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Fast chat: Peter Gallagher
Special to NewsdayPeter Gallagher loves the old alley behind the Broadway theater where he's co-starring with Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand in Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl." Some 30 years ago he was just starting out, appearing on this very stage in his first...Tags: MySpace, Robert Altman, Peter Gallagher, Bill Cosby, Mae West
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Freeman Infuses Humanity in Gripping 'County Girl'
Special to The CourantThe Clifford Odets' renaissance continues, blessed by the presences of Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher in Mike Nichols' dynamic and sensitive production of "The Country Girl." Written in 1950, long after his heyday as the golden boy...Tags: Bing Crosby, Broadway, Grace Kelly, Lincoln Center, Music Theater
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Spring awakening
linda.winer@newsday.comHowever the wind blows, theatergoers know it's spring when Broadway gets crazy with openings. Whatever the calendar says about the year's end, commercial theater will be observing New Year's Eve on May 7 - the last night to open eligible shows before the...Tags: Bing Crosby, Lincoln Center, Patrick Stewart, Glenn Close, Linda Lavin
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Gearing up for the Tonys
While Hollywood suffered through a three-month-long writers' strike that threatened to scuttle many an awardsfest, last fall's labor strife on Broadway lasted only 18 days before the stagehands and the producers agreed to a deal. Thus, the season was...Tags: Shirley Booth, Rita Moreno, George Stevens Jr., Lincoln Center, Music Theater
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So, Bündchen can pretty up New York awhile
Times Staff WriterGisele Bündchen, one of the world's most famous faces in modeling, has for the moment turned up her nose at living in Los Angeles. The 26-year-old, who has appeared on the covers of just about every major international fashion magazine since — as...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Johnny Cash, Torrance, Los Angeles, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated
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Awake and Sing
Special to AMNew YorkClifford Odets, the leading American playwright of the Great Depression, has finally been ushered into the twenty-first century with a passionate, long-overdue Broadway production of his greatest play. At a time when young playwrights could be loud and...Tags: Ben Gazzara, Theater
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The way the parts are played greater than sum of 'Wrong'
Tribune arts criticMichael Matthews is the best Chicago director of whom you've never heard. Whenever this fellow takes the helm at the Circle Theatre of Forest Park, this spectacularly uneven troupe raises its game so dramatically, you wonder if you somehow took a wrong...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Jonathan Harvey, Forest Park, Minority Groups
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Oh 'Boys'
Times Staff WritersNEW YORK — "Jersey Boys," a show about the '60s pop group Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons that has bucked a history of scorn for so-called jukebox musicals, on Sunday became the first of the genre to win a Tony Award for best musical. Its main...Tags: Broadway, Music Theater, Celebrity, Johnny Cash, Celebrity Mothers
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