Mitzi Hamilton was there from the beginning. She was among the two dozen dancers who took part in the all-night recording sessions that would become “A Chorus Line.” And for 10 years she played the part of Val in the Broadway company.
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From left, Jessica Jolly , Derick Longoria , Samuel Garcia , and Joshua Walters , rehearse for their upcoming performance of ?The Jungle Book? at the Garza Theater in Post.
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Now, more than ever, the theater world needs reliable crowd-pleasers such as “The Lion King.” Center president Terry Dwyer was beaming as Segerstrom Hall filled with expectant adults and kids for Friday’s performance of Disney’s perennially popular show, which plays there through June 13.
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In a recent conversation about new plays, the life of itinerant theater pros and the Aspen Fringe Festival, Louis Lotorto refers to “the things we crazy gypsy road actors will do.” Lotorto is being purposefully colorful and dramatic; that is, after all, his profession.
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“Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection has turned down a request from the city of Miami that the state take back the deed to long-dormant Coconut Grove Playhouse.”…
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The biggest selling live tour in Britain this year is not a superannuated rock band but Peter Kay’s 90-date Tour That Doesn’t Tour Tour, which has sold more than 750,000 tickets and includes 35 nights in Manchester alone. The manager of the Manchester Evening News Arena in the city described Kay’s tour as the [...]
Read More... “So let me get this straight: In Colorado, where we’re now dispensing legal medical marijuana on just about every street corner, it remains a criminal offense to light up a fake cigarette on a stage.”…
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Without playing even a single performance, “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is already the stuff of Broadway infamy. It’s poised — should it ever open — to be the most expensive flop in theater history….
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“My view has always been that we need more critical voices, and that the web offers the space for those voices to be heard and to develop. It has already helped open up theatre criticism considerably, and for the better; perhaps it won’t be long before we have the equivalent of Matt Trueman, Alison [...]
Read More... The federal corruption trial of Rod Blagojevicha ‘ ousted Illinois governor, Elvis impersonator and reality TV star a ‘ will provide a summer’s worth of legal and political theater.
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