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Actor Ben Gazzara Dies at 81
KTLA NewsNEW YORK -- Veteran actor Ben Gazzara died Friday of pancreatic cancer, according to the New York Times. The star of award winning films and plays such as "Anatomy of a Murder" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was 81 years old. Among his other notable film...Tags: AIDS, The Big Lebowski (movie), HBO (tv network), Todd Solondz, The New York Times
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Veteran Actor Karl Malden Dies at 97
KTLA NewsBRENTWOOD -- Academy Award and Emmy winning actor Karl Malden died today. He was 97. Malden, who starred in the 1970s TV series "The Streets of San Francisco" and was the longtime American Express traveler's check spokesman, warning travelers to not...Tags: Clifford Odets, Screen Actors Guild, Entertainment, San Francisco, Unions
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A Tribute to the 'Despicable' Mark Kriski
Theatre Asylum is putting on "Tennessee Williams Unscripted". Improv actors retaliate against Mark Kriski's assertion that they should use a script. ---- Theatre Asylum 6320 Santa Monica Blvd. HolywoodTags: Politics, Migration
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Actor Blair Underwood On Starring In Broadway's 'A Street Car Named Desire'
PIX11.comActor Blair Underwood is the first African-American man to star in a Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." He stopped by live to talk about this Tennessee Williams classic which has has extended its Broadway run to Aug. 19. This season,...Tags: Golden Globe Awards, Nicole Ari Parker, James Earl Jones, Blair Underwood, Daphne Rubin-Vega
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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: Steve Jobs, Martin Amis, Lone (music group), Italo Calvino, Fine Artists
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Judith Ivey To Star In Sam Shepard Play At Long Wharf
Hartford CourantMultiple Tony Award-winner Judith Ivey will star in Sam Shepard's "Cirse of the Starving Class" in early 2013 at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre. The announmcement will be made Monday night, along with the other shows slated for the 2012-13 season for the...Tags: Entertainment, Arts and Culture, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Broadway Theater, Judith Ivey
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Satchmo Play, Judith Ivey, World Premieres Highlight Long Wharf Theatre Season
Hartford CourantThe return of Judith Ivey, a "world premiere" work about Louis Armstrong and the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" are among the shows for the 2012-13 season at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. The 48th season opens with the new one-person...Tags: Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Concerts, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Great Old Broad Series: Estelle Parsons
Last Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I'll post a series of these...
Tags: Entertainment, Concerts, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Michael Wilson, Ethel Merman
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'Playhouse 90': Now that's quality TV
Fun with television history: In honor of the recent succession of wonderful cable TV shows ("Mad Men," "True Blood," "Nurse Jackie,""Justified,""Homeland,""Dexter,""The Walking Dead,""Breaking Bad," "Magic City" and so on), we're going to time-travel to...
Tags: Entertainment, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Johnny Carson, The New York Times, NAACP
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Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner may play married pair on Broadway
Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner could be the latest A-listers hitting the boards. The pair, who co-star as superheroes in the expected blockbuster "The Avengers" opening Friday, could be Broadway bound as husband and wife in a revival of Tennessee...
Tags: Tim Rice, Entertainment, Drew Barrymore, Evita (musical), Jeff Goldblum
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Emily Mann a natural to direct 'Streetcar' and 'The Convert'
NEW YORK — New Yorker drama critic John Lahr set off a social media firestorm in December with a blog comment that called for a moratorium on those "infernal all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays unless we can have their equal in folly:...
Tags: Nicole Ari Parker, Kirk Douglas, Blair Underwood, Arts and Culture, Edward Albee
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Stephen King, John Mellencamp unveil 'Ghost Brothers' in Atlanta
Culture Monster"Ghost Brothers of Darkland County," a musical by Stephen King and John Mellencamp, opens in Atlanta....
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