... Julie Myerson ; Lucy Brown (" Primeval ") reading " Up at the Villa " by Helen Simpson, and John Schwab ("The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ") reading "Stories" by John Edgar Wideman. Proceeds benefit Fairbridge, a charity for inner-city...

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Glenn Cannon's excellent direction and a talented cast take this Harold Pinter drama and create must-see theater POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 19, 2009 In the earliest episodes of " Dallas ," Bobby and his father were tough and ruthless...

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...the winners have included Michael Tippett , Dame Ninette de Valois , David Lean , Paul Scofield , Harold Pinter , Alfred Brendel , Judi Dench , Tom Stoppard , Mike Leigh , Helen Mirren and Peter Brook. Bennett had emphatically earned his place in...

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Nighy turns 60 next month ("I'm going to even forget you said that") and jokes he will no longer do plays without gags and avoids Shakespeare because it requires baggy pantaloons. "The absence of classical work in my repertoire is due to...

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...compared with many Hollywood movies, the violence is minimal, there is little sex, and the swearing is rarely more gratuitous than in a Harold Pinter play. 1 Day is as dangerous as a modern British take on West Side Story , a film more...

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...decorated with photographs from 1998, listening to students and guests from all over Europe. Tom Stoppard was here to warn us about what he saw as a society of non-responsiveness in Britain , sleepwalking its way to authoritarianism.

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...Theater's Central Park production of the '60s rock musical comes indoors. Al Hirschfeld. Telecharge. " Hamlet." Jude Law stars as Shakespeare 's melancholy Danish prince in a production from London 's Donmar Warehouse. Broadhurst.

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... Mark Ravenhill 's Mother Clap 's Molly House about a gay brothel and Di Trevis's extraordinary bid to make a theatrical event of Harold Pinter's superb screen distillation of Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Both began life at Lamda and...

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...turn up within half an hour. After Smith presented a performance for Yale faculty and students, she couldn't stay away from the topic. Smith estimates that she 's interviewed more than 300 people on three different continents to come up with...

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... Hawaii stage debut tonight as Ruth in the Kennedy Theatre Main Stage production of "The Homecoming." Ruth is the only woman in Harold Pinter's classic tale of sex and violence in a dysfunctional family, and she operates in ways that...

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November 12th, 2009 by Rebecca Harper Editor For years, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin have had a friendly rivalry as members of the Platinum Club , an exclusive group of Saturday Night Live regulars who have held hosting duties on NBC 's...

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Ernest in Love , the 1960 musical version of Oscar Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest , boasting a frisky comic score beloved by cast album collectors, will return to Off-Broadway in December. Advertisement Irish Repertory Theatre...

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" Nurse Jackie " Starring Falco, Best and Smith , Returns to Showtime March 22 Dominic Fumusa with Edie Falco ; Eve Best ; and Anna Deavere Smith Broadway star Edie Falco will return to television screens March 22, 2010, in the second season...

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...NIU SILA and KING AND COUNTRY has emerged as one New Zealand 's most original and popular satirists. In March the Company presents Oscar Wilde's witty and irreverent THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Set in the 1960s and starring Elizabeth...

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British theatre is wrong about Joe Orton | James Martin Charlton British theatre is wrong about Joe Orton The playwright and his lover Kenneth Halliwell led exceptionally brave and radical lives - something that plays about them fail to...

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...to other main sections from here For some years now fans of that magnificently deranged comic Steve Martin have been wondering whether he will ever recapture the insanity of his earliest films ( Woody Allen's admirers know that feeling). Or...

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...personal essays on Westminster Abbey. This fact reminds me of the shrewd remark made by a descendant of Oscar Wilde who averred that it was fitting that Oscar had been honoured by a window rather than a monument because a window was "neither...

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