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Arena Stage Presents Stick Fly 1/1-2/7/2010
9 December 2009 5:36 PM, PST
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Arena Stage presents Stick Fly, a thought-provoking comedy that explores the role of race and privilege in the African-American social aristocracy. Director of the 2004 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, Kenny Leon returns to Arena Stage to direct this witty and insightful comedy. Stick Fly is written by playwright Lydia R. Diamond, whose plays include The Bluest Eye and The Gift Horse, among others. Stick Fly is being produced in collaboration with the Huntington Theatre Company. Stick Fly runs January 1 - February 7, 2010 at Arena Stage in Crystal City. The press opening performance is Thursday, January 7, 2010.
"I love Lydia's play, and to have Kenny direct it is a dream," said Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith. "Lydia is a great storyteller who has an uncanny ear for dialogue. She says what she thinks, feels and wants through her plays. Kenny is a renaissance man. He understands the psychology of human beings.
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Jack Lemmon, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier on TCM
11 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST
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Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award winners Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas will be celebrated by Turner Classic Movies with a four-film presentation beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, the night before TCM’s sister networks TNT and TBS present a live simulcast of the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Of the four films — the short Tit for Tat, and the features The Out-of-Towners, A Raisin in the Sun, and Last Train from Gun Hill — I’ve only seen the moderately entertaining John Sturges Western Last Train from Gun Hill, whose most memorable feature is Carolyn Jones as the female lead [...]
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- Andre Soares
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Turner Classic Movies Honors Achievement Award Recipients With Marathon
11 November 2009 5:22 AM, PST
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Turner Classic Movies is honoring five of its Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award recipients with a primetime movie marathon on the eve of the next "Screen Actors Guild Awards" presentation.
On January 22nd, TCM will air four films which feature five award recipients, Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas. The network airs Laurel's 1935 comedy short "Tit for Tat" at 8pm, followed by "The Out-of-Towners" with Lemmon and Sandy Dennis.
The 1961 adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," starring Dee and Poitier, airs at 10:15pm. The marathon closes with the Kirk Douglas western "Last Train from Gun Hill" at 12:30am.
It all leads to the airing of the "16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards" telecast, set to air simultaneously on TCM and TBS. Television and film star Betty White will be the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Live
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Turner Classic Movies Honors Achievement Award Recipients With Marathon
11 November 2009 5:22 AM, PST
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Turner Classic Movies is honoring five of its Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award recipients with a primetime movie marathon on the eve of the next "Screen Actors Guild Awards" presentation.
On January 22nd, TCM will air four films which feature five award recipients, Stan Laurel, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Kirk Douglas. The network airs Laurel's 1935 comedy short "Tit for Tat" at 8pm, followed by "The Out-of-Towners" with Lemmon and Sandy Dennis.
The 1961 adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," starring Dee and Poitier, airs at 10:15pm. The marathon closes with the Kirk Douglas western "Last Train from Gun Hill" at 12:30am.
It all leads to the airing of the "16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards" telecast, set to air simultaneously on TCM and TBS. Television and film star Betty White will be the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Live
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Vsc's Multimedia Presentation //romeo&juliet/ Plays Thru 11/8
8 November 2009 2:30 AM, PST
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Virginia Stage Company (Vsc) presents the second play in its 2009-2010 season, a new modern adaptation of Shakespeare's timeless Romeo and Juliet in //romeo&juliet/ running October 20 through November 8 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk.
Vsc's presentation of //romeo&juliet/ is unique as it integrates Shakespeare's original dialogue with on-stage 21st century digital multimedia including audio, video, internet techology and social networking communications.
Director and Vsc Associate Artistic Director Patrick Mullins takes this timeless story of young lovers and places it into today's teenage and 20-something world filled with cell phones, laptops, email, text messages and Facebook friends. A classic play that is often considered a museum piece in the theater world now becomes a fresh new canvas in which multimedia is used to energize the passion within Shakespeare's poetic words.
As the text flashes across large video screens on stage and strategically mounted within the theater, it provides
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Vsc's Multimedia Presentation //romeo&juliet/ Plays Thru 11/8
8 November 2009 2:00 AM, PST
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Virginia Stage Company (Vsc) presents the second play in its 2009-2010 season, a new modern adaptation of Shakespeare's timeless Romeo and Juliet in //romeo&juliet/ running October 20 through November 8 at the Wells Theatre in downtown Norfolk.
Vsc's presentation of //romeo&juliet/ is unique as it integrates Shakespeare's original dialogue with on-stage 21st century digital multimedia including audio, video, internet techology and social networking communications.
Director and Vsc Associate Artistic Director Patrick Mullins takes this timeless story of young lovers and places it into today's teenage and 20-something world filled with cell phones, laptops, email, text messages and Facebook friends. A classic play that is often considered a museum piece in the theater world now becomes a fresh new canvas in which multimedia is used to energize the passion within Shakespeare's poetic words.
As the text flashes across large video screens on stage and strategically mounted within the theater, it provides
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Broadway Manager's 'Peeping' Charge
18 October 2009 7:11 AM, PDT
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The stage manager for Broadway's South Pacific has been charged with secretly filming an actress undressing backstage.
Michael Brunner turned himself in for police questioning earlier this week (ends18Oct09) after the actress, whose identity has been withheld, discovered a recording of her changing in her dressing room.
The 54 year old, critically acclaimed for his work on the World War II musical, was arraigned on Friday on a charge of unlawful surveillance.
Brunner has also had a hand in managing Broadway plays A Raisin in the Sun and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
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'The Domestic Crusaders': Making History With Muslim American Theater
4 September 2009 12:57 PM, PDT
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"Ali, write me 20 pages about a family - a Muslim American family. You ever read Long Day's Journey into Night or Death of a Salesman? Yeah, something like that. I'm tired of seeing Muslims pummeled by the media as caricatures and stereotypes. I want to hear their story. Ok? Great. Give me 20 pages and you can pass my class," ordered my Uc Berkeley Short Story Professor, Ishmael Reed, in 2001.
A play that originally started as a student assignment premieres on 9-11 in New York, Off-Broadway, at the landmark Nuyorican Poets Café for a historic 5 week run. "The Domestic Crusaders" has been hailed as "one of the first major Muslim American plays" and compared to "A Raisin in the Sun" and works by Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill.
Such praise is humbling, gratifying and utterly terrifying. It
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- Wajahat Ali
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Ask AfterEllen.com (September 1, 2009)
1 September 2009 9:41 PM, PDT
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Want to know the status of a particular movie, TV show, or band? Wondering what a certain actress is up to these days? Send your entertainment-related questions to askafterellen@gmail.com — with your first name, city and country — and we'll try to answer as many as we can.
Question:
I just caught the tail end of Kissing Jessica Stein on TV today and I was wondering if you could tell me what writers/co-stars Heather Juergensen and Jennifer Westfeldt are up to these days? I love that movie and thought they both did brilliant jobs both writing and acting in it!
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Helen Juergensen and Jennifer Westfeldt in Kissing Jessica Stein
Answer: Jennifer Westfeldt has worked steadily following the success of Kissing Jessica Stein. Just last year she had a multi-episode arc as a patient on Grey's Anatomy, and this fall she'll join the cast of 24 as journalist Meredith Reed.
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The Guthrie Presents A Raisin In The Sun 3/13-4/11
20 January 2009 5:09 PM, PST
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The Guthrie is proud to present Penumbra Theatre's production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Lou Bellamy. A co-production with Arizona Theatre Company and The Cleveland Play House, this presentation marks the 50th anniversary of the show's groundbreaking Broadway opening, and arrives at the Guthrie on the heels of two highly-lauded regional runs in Ohio and Arizona. A Raisin in the Sun previews March 12, opens March 13 and plays through April 11, 2009 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage. Single tickets are priced from $24 to $60, with opening night prices ranging from $49 to $70. Tickets are now on sale through the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224, toll-free 877.44.Stage, 612.225.6244 (Group Sales) and online at www.guthrietheater.org.
A recent widow, Lena Younger (Franchelle Stewart Dorn) wants to use her husband's insurance money to buy a home for her family, freeing them from the cramped tenement in which she, her two children, daughter-in-law and grandson live.
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