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Sunday, July 8, 2018

Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival Still Celebrates its Namesake by Pia Catton

The beloved summer event now runs five weeks—July 12–August 12.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

What Do Ballet Dancers Really Think of Ballet Movies? by Pia Catton

Dancers from the American Ballet Theatre offer their views on everything from The Red Shoes to Red Sparrow.

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Friday, April 20, 2018

Pia Catton: Theatre boards need to involve artists to help battle harassment by Pia Catton

From London to Texas, non-profit theatres are cleaning up the fallout from sexual misconduct allegations. After the revelations and resignations, leadership searches

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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Backstage Buzz: Stage Greats on Page by Pia Catton

Books about Neil Simon and Eugene O'Neill are hitting the shelves, and more theater news: Bookish theater fans will have many pages to turn this fall, as two books about great American playw…

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Monday, May 25, 2015

New Regards for Broadway by Pia Catton

It may seem inconceivable that the theater industry is fretting over its audience. Even so, the question of how to get new people into theater seats looms large.

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Getting Naked on the Airwaves by PIA CATTON

A group of 15 theater types in their late 20s meets every week at the Naked Angels offices to write and rehearse weekly theatrical offerings in the style of short radio plays.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

How Do You Get to Broadway? by Pia Catton

Practice, practice, practice"especially at the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University, two major feeders to the world of professional theater.

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Monday, December 10, 2012

Wrap a New Present In Fables of the Past by Pia Catton

Jackie Hoffman at a dress rehearsal for her one-woman show, 'A Chanukah Charol,' at New World Stages

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Monday, April 25, 2011

Dancer's Dramatic Turn at City Ballet by Pia Catton

Wendy Whelan & Patty Lupone in Seven deadly Sins, choreographed by Lynne Taylor Corbett

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