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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Poetry slam competition Louder Than a Bomb nears the finals

The event is called Louder Than a Bomb, and some schools around Massachusetts have been leery of letting students wear the T-shirts to class since the Boston Marathon attack.  &nbs…

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Weekend Recap: A Very Long Blog PostIt's been super sunny and warm here in the Bay Area. I spent all last weekend running around and loving the weather. FridayFriday my good friend Ange…

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PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: MAY 21 by David Gewirtzman and Anne Bradley and Robert Viagas

1929 Some of the highlights of A Night in Venice are Ted Healy wrestling bears and the choreography of Busby Berkeley. This revue will run at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway for 22 weeks.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Hottest Articles on BWW from Monday, May. 20

Hottest Articles on BroadwayWorld.com from Monday, May 20, 2013.

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TT: Almanac

"I saw a tall man, evidently an Englishman, come in with a young rough. He had the long, washed-out face...

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TT: Lookback

From 2005: Somewhere along the way, I muttered the all-too-familiar mantra of the busy New Yorker returned from a brief...

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‘Company of Men’ hauntingly disturbing, yet irresistible

HEDY WEISS: Neil LaBute’s revision of his 1997 movie stars an ideal cast at Profiles Theatre.

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'Master Builder' review: John Turturro an uneasy match

The last time John Turturro came to play in Brooklyn, he was at his most diabolically bratty and most oddly majestic in Samuel Beckett's hilariously miserable masterwork "Endgame." The 2008 …

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Review: Spirited, sexy version of 'Master Builder'

NEW YORK (AP) — If you didn't think Henrik Ibsen's work was sexy and racy, you'll be pleasantly surprised by BAM's production of "The Master Builder," which embraces a whole new interpreta…

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Improv Everywhere Transform a Subway Car Into a Late Night Talk Show

For their latest stunt, Improv Everywhere (they of the 'No Pants Subway Ride' and the boardroom meeting inside the Staples office chair department) hopped on a New York subway car at Court S…

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12th Avenue Arts, Makah Tribe win ArtPlace grants

ArtPlace America, which distributes grants that “accelerate creative placemaking across the country,” has announced the 54 recipients for grants in 2013-14. Washington recipients are: …

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Lease to Broadway's biggest theater sold

NEW YORK (AP) — Britain's biggest theater group has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought the lease to Broadway's largest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 millio…

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Penumbra Theatre announces full 2013-14 season

As it gets back on the fiscal track, theater seeks “deeper engagement,” with plays, related programs and films.

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At L.A.'s UnCabaret, 25 Years Of Letting It All Hang Out

Launched as an alternative to the stale stylings of the '80s stand-up circuit, Beth Lapides' event bills itself as a venue for "idiosyncratic, conversational comedy." It's helped establish c…

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Directors Lab West Diaries: Opening Weekend by Cindy Marie Jenkins, Megan Kosmoski and John R. Lacey

Several participants in Directors Lab West write impressions of the event's opening weekend.

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How Alice became opera's answer to the Sex Pistols

Amonth of ups and downs with difficulties throughout the production stable. Classic FM turned us into the operatic version of the Sex Pistols by banning us from the station; well, not so muc…

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MIT, Pilobolus dance in the rain, sort of, for ‘Umbrella Project’

CAMBRIDGE — It was part college dance, part video game, part Simon Says, part high-tech experiment. Happening — coincidentally — in the rain Sunday night, on darkened Jack Barry Field …

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Opera Theatre of St. Louis announces 2014 season

Mizrahi and Brewer return to OTSL; Stephanie Blythe debuts.

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This Week's New Classifieds on BWW - 5/20/2013

This Week's New Classified Listings on BroadwayWorld.com for 5202013.

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Broadway's biggest theater sold to British group

NEW YORK (AP) — Britain's biggest theater group has reached across the Atlantic Ocean and bought Broadway's biggest theater from Live Nation Entertainment for about $60 million.  …

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Bach Society closes season with rich Rachmaninoff

St. Stan's provides a fine setting for Polish and Russian music.

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St. Louis Symphony Orchestra announces four new hires

Now filled: principal timpani, principal harp, piccolo and a section violin.

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/19/13

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 5192013.

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Contest: Win breakfast for your office

Here are a few of last week's responses in our #goodmorningstl contest, where we asked what you love about mornings in St. Louis.

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Audra McDonald, A Broadway Star Gone Roaming, Comes Home

After extended jaunts in TV and on the road, McDonald's first new album in seven years marks a return to her roots in musical theater.

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Broadway Slates More 'Sundays' for Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal is bringing his hit one-man show "700 Sundays" back to Broadway next season, its producers said Tuesday. The limited nine-week run at the Imperial Theatre is set to begin in No…

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Man falls from NYC theater window onto marquee

Officials in New York City say a man suffered minor injuries after falling out of a window onto the marquee of a Broadway theater.

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Retold fairy tales charm in Princeton production

PRINCETON - "Is this professional or volunteer?" asked one of the younger audience members at Into the Woods, now playing at the McCarter Theatre Center in a production by the Fias…

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Radio: Podcast: Ed Seckerson meets actress & singer Lucy Schaufer

Lucy Schaufer has always been one to confound our expectations. As she puts it herself, she's "an American in London, conceived within the American Dream and living in the Old World." As a…

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'Unconstitutional': theater review

Sooner or later, any show commenting on — okay, railing about — what’s wrong with America will get around to the Kardashians.

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