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Theater season preview
Sentinel Staff WriterAmway Shakespeare Opportunity Twitter of the Shrew will be at a site to be announced. The Shakespeariment will be at the Walt Disney Amphitheater at Lake Eola Park, 101 N. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Details: 407-792-9421. Twitter of the Shrew: Feb. 14....Tags: Robert Brown, International Speedway Corp., Movies, Brighton Beach, Michael Stewart
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New opera 'The Fly' creates a buzz
The Associated PressDavid Cronenberg's 1986 horror flick, The Fly, has undergone a bizarre metamorphosis. It's now an opera. The new incarnation, with tenor Placido Domingo conducting a score by Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings), isn't as gory as...Tags: David Cronenberg, Music Theater, Movies, Geena Davis, Theater
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Kicking a Dead Horse
amNewYork Theater criticNo one can accuse "Kicking a Dead Horse" of not living up to its title. Less than five minutes into Sam Shepard's drama, a male actor is literally kicking a giant prop that resembles a dead horse. A booming sound effect even echoes every time that he...Tags: Central Park, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett, Stephen Rea, Theater
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'A Thousand Words' writers hope it's the start of something big
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterStephen Sondheim and Georges Seurat. John Guare and Wassily Kandinsky. Edward Albee and Louise Nevelson. Throughout theater history, writers have mined the works and biographies of artists to create such vastly different dramas as "Sunday in the Park...Tags: Sam Shepard, Theater, Georges Seurat, Louise Nevelson, Lincoln Heights
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Quick Takes
Remember ABBA as they were
Despite the astonishing success of the stage musical "Mamma Mia!," ABBA has ruled out any reunion tour.
Songwriters Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of the Swedish pop quartet told Britain's Sunday Telegraph that ABBA will...Tags: ABBA, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Edgar Allan Poe, Music Industry, Music
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'Hollywood Chinese' traces roles of Asians
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt really wasn't all that long ago Hollywood thought audiences wouldn't pay money to see a movie with an Asian lead. So producers would cast non-Asian actors -- replete with yellow-face makeup -- in these roles. In fact, Luise Rainer won a best actress...Tags: History, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Movies, Celebrity Mothers, Christopher Lee
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A messy 'Yellow Face' opens
Look up "yellow face" in the dictionary. It says "a yellow stylized representation of a smiling face." But for playwright David Henry Hwang, it refers to the practice of having a Caucasian pretend to be an Asian individual, rather like the infamous...Tags: Music Theater, Jonathan Pryce, New York Times, Al Jolson, Theater
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With assist from playwright, 'Golden Child' draws you in
Tribune theater criticAmong the myriad challenges of David Henry Hwang's "Golden Child" is the need for a single actress to play both an elderly Chinese woman living out her waning years in America and a 10-year-old girl. And if that weren't enough for Chicago's nascent,...Tags: Celebrity, Theater, Family
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Casting for the stage should be color-blind
Special to The TimesThere's a wonderful old theater story about Laurence Olivier in the 1960s — he was playing in "Othello" and receiving generally glowing notices opposite Frank Findlay and a young actress by the name of Maggie Smith. One night, however, as he stormed...Tags: History, Neil LaBute, Kevin Spacey, Theater, Lorraine Hansberry
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True stories and other modern-day fantasies
Special to The TimesWE live in a time when reality has evidently trumped fiction. The novel loses readers, as narrative nonfiction and memoirs gain in popularity. Reality television, once derided as a fad, is apparently here to stay. Young people abandon the so-called old...Tags: Political Candidates, News Media, Lillian Hellman, New York Times, Newspapers
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One-man show
Times Staff WriterNO one said it was going to be easy. But with his first season behind him and his second already underway, Center Theatre Group artistic director Michael Ritchie has yet to communicate a clear theatrical game plan. Questions concerning his artistic...Tags: Robert Brown, Music, Michael Ritchie, Marisa Tomei, Kirk Douglas
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'Surfing DNA'
Times Staff WriterThe father, eager to pass along what he knows, is hunkered down with his 3-year-old. "You can do it, Jo," he says encouragingly. His girl, Jodi, gives it a go. Shuffle-shuffle-hop-slap. Not quite right. He corrects her and she tries again. She does it...Tags: Music Theater, Biotechnology Industry, Music, George Burns, Theater
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