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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Dragon Theatre gives a look ahead to 2016 by John Orrdaily News Arts and Entertainment Editor

The Dragon Productions Theatre continues to thrive since its move from Palo Alto to Redwood City in 2012.

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:42PM
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

'This system produces rebels': Russian theatre troupe honours jailed protestors by Reuters and John Freedman For The Moscow Times, Part Of The New East Network

Moscow’s ‘smallest but noisiest playhouse’ perseveres with latest documentary project in the face of legal threats and eviction by the authorities Peering at the audience from behind m…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11AM
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Steppenwolf Theatre partners with Paul Stuart by Johnny Oleksinski and Doug George

Here is an unlikely collaboration. Steppenwolf Theatre Company has partnered with Paul Stuart, a Manhattan-based purveyor of luxury clothes. This month, the Chicago store at 208 S. LaSalle S…

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:20PM

Nice shirt? Steppenwolf Theatre partners with Paul Stuart by Johnny Oleksinski and Doug George

Here is an unlikely collaboration. Steppenwolf Theatre Company has partnered with Paul Stuart, a Manhattan-based purveyor of luxury clothes. This month, the Chicago store at 208 S. LaSalle S…

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:44PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Another Spider-Man actor injured in fall by JOHN CARUCCI and TOM McELROY

Fourth time an actor has been hurt in connection with expensive production

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM

Another Spider-Man actor injured in fall by JOHN CARUCCI and TOM McELROY

Fourth time an actor has been hurt in connection with expensive production

SOURCE: The Globe and Mail at 05:58PM
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Post-Play Palaver: Robert Michael Oliver and John Stoltenberg Look at ‘Light Rises on Grace’ by Robert Michael Oliver and John Stoltenberg

Robert Michael Oliver and John Stoltenberg saw and wrote about the same opening night performance of Lights Rise on Grace at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, but they seem not to have seen th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:56AM

Teenage dancers' diaries: ‘Looking at the schedule makes your body hurt’ by Jahmarley Bachelor, Lydia Hiraide and John-William Watson

Three National Youth Dance Company students describe having their minds opened and their skills tested while working with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui ahead of a UK-wide tourA group of…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Pub Landlord Al Murray on his election strategy: ‘I could drink Nigel Farage and William Hague under the table’ by Joanthan Freedland, Peter Bradshaw, Ian Cobain, Imogen Fox, Richard Adams, Alexis Petridis, Amelia Gentleman, Susan Smillie, Jonathan Jones, Hugh Muir, Jay Rayner, Heather Stewart and John Crace

The comedian is to stand against Farage for South Thanet in the 2015 general election. But what are his guvnorment’s policies? Guardian experts question him on welfare, freedom, immigratio…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Love, loss and mixtapes: the Guardian and the Royal Court's music microplay by Bijan Sheibani and John Harris

Groove Is in the Heart celebrates the ritual of recording a compilation tape in the days before the infinite jukebox of the internet. Director Bijan Sheibani and the Guardian’s John Harris…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

"She Loves You" b/w "I'll Get You" by The Beatles, Swan S-4152 by [email protected], Intern, Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives Of Recorded Sound

In the summer of 1963, The Beatles were huge in Britain. But this was not the case in America. Two earlier singles that had done well in their home country—"Please Please Me"…

SOURCE: nypl.org at 11:07AM
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Katherine Ryan, Simon Evans and John Robins dissect their comedy by Katherine Ryan, Simon Evans and John Robins

Continuing our series on the art of standup, three comedians take apart their routines Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Directors Lab Diaries: Days 7 and 8 by John R. Lacey and Megan Kosmoski and Sara Fenton

Directors Lab West wrapped up its 2013 sessions with Velina Hasu Houston, Carefy Perloff, Sean Daniels, Anne Cattaneo and the Burglars of Hamm, among others.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:05PM
Monday, May 20, 2013

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.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:36PM
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Drama afoot as L.A. Opera feels heat of rival works by Reed Johnson and David Ng

The L.A. Opera is on challenging ground as local groups like the L.A. Phil, The Industry and Jacaranda stage inventive productions of opera and opera-like music theater.This spring, opera in…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM
Friday, November 18, 2011

Columbia Records Manufacturing Process: 1946 by John Coakley

The photographs that you see here were taken on a tour of the Bridgeport, CT Columbia Records factory in 1946. They provide a fascinating look at how music was reproduced in those days. The …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:24AM
Thursday, September 29, 2011

A New Patent Law by Kenneth Johnson, Science, Industry and Business Library

Those who take an interest in patents will have heard by now; the U.S. has a new patent law, the "Leahy-Smith America Invents Act." It's too early to tell whether the changes that …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:09AM
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Intellectual Property Day at SIBL by Kenneth Johnson, Science, Industry and Business Library

We're just starting to get the word out — November 8, 2011 will be a day to explore Intellectual Property protection when the Science, Industry and Business Library hosts a visit from …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:10AM
Thursday, January 30, 2003

Nureyev and me by John Ezard and Carolyn Soutar

As Rudolf Nureyev's lover and confidant for 14 years, Robert Tracy knows more about the dancer than anyone. For a decade he has kept silent, but now, for the first time, he tells John Ezard …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13AM