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Should Theatres Hire Leaders Locally?

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Should cultural institutions — organic and homegrown as so many of them are — strive to hire local for their creative leadership?…
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NY’s Cherry Lane Theater to Go Dark for a Season

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“The Cherry Lane Theater will not produce plays on its main stage for a year beginning in September, and possibly longer, to buy time to cope with a deficit of roughly $167,000 through the 2010 fiscal year.”…
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Does Theater About Gays in the Military Merely ‘Preach to the Choir’?

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Marc Wolf, author and performer of Another American Asking and Telling: “I soon discovered that my worries about preaching to the choir were unfounded because, where gays in the military are concerned, there has never been a choir to preach to.”…
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A Guy Thing – Review

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Ignore the intermittent bouts of mindless laughter, which seem like a nervous tic for some twenty something youngsters in the audience these days, and this one hour ten minute production, fresh from t…
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Soundgarden to play Lollapalooza pre-show Aug. 5 in Chicago

July 28th, 2010 RSS FEED No comments

Soundgarden is headlining Lollapalooza Aug. 8 in Chicago, but true fans will want to be at the band’s private show at the intimate Vic Theater on Aug.
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Frank Sinatra musical ‘Come Fly Away’ to close

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In this theater publicity image originally released by The Hartman Group, Keith Roberts, left, and Karine Plantadit in a scene from Twyla Tharp’s “Come Fly Away,” in New York.
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Don’t waste the last lazy days inside — do something fun

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By Alyson Ward For many of us around here, the new school year starts Aug. 23. And that means we have just three more precious weeks of summer to enjoy before the kids get crammed into classrooms for another nine months.So get out there and make the most of them.
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Work set for Elvis’ Tupelo home

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A Memphis, Tenn., architecture company will design new attractions at the Elvis Presley Birthplace.
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Don’t Look Up

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By Ken Tasho Jul 28 The filmmakers of the Japanese horror remake Don’t Look Up should’ve realized that the once popular foreign genre from the late 90’s was dead and buried.
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It’s a honeymoon for young director of Wedding Singer

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ENCOURAGING WORDS: Davis Alianiello offers words of encouragement to his cast after the final dress rehearsal.
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