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News, interviews, and commentary on theater, the arts, music, and dance.
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This Winter, More Cause For Broadway Discontent
The recession has hit Broadway hard: Nine shows, including emYoung Frankenstein,/em closed this week, and four more have posted notices. Jeff Lunden talks to a veteran producer and a young investor to see how bad the outlook is.
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Orchestra Spreads Classical Music In Bolivia
A movement is brewing in Bolivia. It has nothing to do with political turmoil that has plagued the South American country. Instead, classical music is in the air. A little-known but up-and-coming orchestra is spreading the sounds of Bach and Beethoven across the administrative capital La Paz, and even into some of Bolivia's most forgotten places.
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Singer And Actress Eartha Kitt Dies
Singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died of colon cancer. She was 81. Kitt, who was ostracized as a child in South Carolina because of her mixed-race heritage, got her start in show business as a dancer and vocalist, and earned early international notice as a featured singer in a Paris nightclub.
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Harold Pinter, Playwright And Nobel Laureate, Dies
British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter has died. He was 78. Pinter was known for his brooding portrayals of domestic life and his barbed politics.
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Remembering Influential Playwright Harold Pinter
The Nobel Prize-winning writer died Christmas day at the age of 78. He was widely viewed as one of the most influential British playwrights of his time.
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Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright Harold Pinter Dies
Harold Pinter, an influential British playwright and political activist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. Pinter died Christmas day at the age of 78 after a long battle with esophageal cancer.
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Madoff Scandal Parallels 1905 Play
The saga of disgraced Wall Street kingpin Bernard Madoff reads like a David Mamet play. And several years back, Mamet emdid/em adapt an old play about a Ponzi scheme mdash; emThe Voysey Inheritance,/em written in 1905. Financial blogger Felix Salmon talks to Andrea Seabrook about the parallels between Voysey and Madoff.
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A Daughter's Dance Brings Dad Joy
Scott Simon's 5-year-old daughter has fallen in love mdash; with ballet. As she twirls around his life, he feels the humbling power of a parent's proud amazement. It's all a bit dizzying for Dad, too.
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Did SNL Go Too Far With Paterson Sketch?
It's another Friday in the Barbershop with Jimi Izrael, Nick Charles, Arsalan Iftikhar and Ruben Navarrette. Up for discussion this week: a closer look at President Bush's close call with a pair of flying shoes and a recent comedy sketch on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" that failed to hit New York Governor David Paterson's funny bone.
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'Pal Joey' Returns, Hoping To Be Understood
The Rodgers and Hart musical emPal Joey/em thrilled and confused audiences in 1940 with its story of adultery and blackmail. Tastes have changed mdash; and now a revival of emPal Joey/em is opening on Broadway.
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'Wishful Drinking' With Carrie Fisher
In a new memoir, Carrie Fisher mdash; actress, novelist and self-described daughter of "Hollywood inbreeding" mdash; writes about her tumultuous life as showbiz royalty. In emWishful Drinking/em, Fisher discusses her bipolar disorder, addictions and divorce mdash; and still manages to laugh.
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A 'West Side Story' With A Different Accent
The Broadway-bound revival, staged by co-creator Arthur Laurents, rethinks the musical from top to bottom. Some characters sing in Spanish, for one thing. And those lovable gang thugs? They're angrier now.
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Actor Jim Pickering On Scrooge
The actor has played Scrooge on stage for the better part of two decades. He talks to Jacki Lyden about why he keeps coming back to the role.
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'Shrek' Leads DreamWorks Into Broadway Battle
Since turning its animated film emBeauty and the Beast/em into a Broadway hit 14 years ago, the Walt Disney Co. has had the stage to itself for large-scale family entertainment. Now DreamWorks is challenging it with emShrek: The Musical/em. The big green ogre debuts on the Great White Way on Sunday.
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Parkinson's Patients Find Grace In Dance
"People come in barely shuffling along, and the class sort of frees people," says dancer Mark Morris. "It's not a miracle and I don't know the science. I know that music, rhythm, repetition, encouragement makes everybody dance."
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