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1 hr ago | The Day

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center to receive $3 million state grant

A $3 million state grant would mean that the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford could begin a major expansion that would accommodate the establishment of a new musical theater program for undergraduates.

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Related Topix: Arts, Musical Theater

5 hrs ago | Anchorage Daily News

Second City co-founder brought intellect to comedy

This 2001 photo provided by The Second City shows Bernard Sahlins, the co-founder of Chicago's Second City theater.

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Related Topix: Brian Doyle-Murray, Arts, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Saturday Night Live, Chicago, Mad About You

7 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Tony Awards spur box offices on Broadway

There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the biggest winners being "Pippin," "Matilda the Musical" and "Motown the Musical."

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Related Topix: Arts, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Entertainment

7 hrs ago | News Times

Tony Awards spur box offices on Broadway

This June 9, 2013 file photo shows Patina Miller accepting her Tony Award for best actress in a musical for her role in "Pippin" at the 67th Annual Tony Awards in New York.

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Related Topix: Arts, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Entertainment

7 hrs ago | Northern Michigan News

Tony Awards spur box offices on Broadway

There were smiles at many Broadway box offices last week as a big financial bounce followed the Tony Awards, with the biggest winners being "Pippin," ''Matilda the Musical" and "Motown the Musical."

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Related Topix: Arts, Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism)

11 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Helen Mirren in 'The Audience' sets NT Live record

National Theatre Live, which broadcasts stage shows from England to movie screens worldwide, said Monday that its June 13 live broadcast of Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in the play "The Audience" has captured its largest audience to date.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Helen Mirren, Elizabeth Ii, Europe, United Kingdom, World News, Princess Diana, Arts, Entertainment

15 hrs ago | The Summit Daily News

Local professional theater gets new status

Daily file photo/Mark Fox The Lake Dillon Theatre Company has been appointed Colorado's newest Actors' Equity union theatre.

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Related Topix: Arts, Dillon, CO, Colorado, Recreational Vehicle, Aspen, Summit County, CO

20 hrs ago | Portsmouth Daily Times

Hard rock band Drowning Pool headlines Columbia Theater

Hot off the release of their fifth studio album "Resilience," out now on Eleven Seven Music, hard rock band Drowning Pool will make a stop in Portsmouth on as part of their "Resilience Tour".

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Drowning Pool, Arts, Portsmouth, OH

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Playbill

Paul Rudd and Julianna Margulies Star in MCC Theater Benefit Reading...

MCC Theater presents a one-night-only reading of Playwright-in-Residence Neil LaBute 's The Mercy Seat June 17 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street.

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Related Topix: Arts, Julianna Margulies

Westport Now

Playhouse Production 'Captures Golden Era in Theater'

The Westport Country Playhouse Sunday symposium series, an interview following the opening week Sunday matinee, today focused on the art of theater comedy from the perspective of Murray Biggs , Yale University associate prrofessor of English and theater.

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Related Topix: Arts

Daily Record

'Present Laughter' a champagne nitecap to Two River season

Written bySir Noel Coward as a vehicle for his own multifaceted talents, the 1939 comedy "Present Laughter" has proven irresistible to many of the larger-then-life leading men of stage and screen, who find in its portrait of an aging matinee idol just the sort of send-up they can sink their teeth into.

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Related Topix: Noel Coward, Arts, Theater, End of the Rainbow

Courier-Post

Magnolia man brings Greased Lightnin' up to speed at the Walnut Street Theater

It's more than a play. It's an icon. "Grease" is part of the American culture and theatrical vocabulary in ways that most plays never are.

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Related Topix: Arts

The News-Messenger

Miss Ohio contestants strut their style at fashion show

Twenty-three contestants modeled outfits provided by Richland Mall merchants Saturday afternoon, from casual shorts and tops to sundresses and skinny jeans in front of a crowd of well-wishers.

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Related Topix: Ohio, Mansfield, OH, Columbus, OH, State Prisons, Ohio State Reformatory, Prison, Wapakoneta, OH, Arts

GPB.org

Burning Down The House: Artistic Freedom Under Fire In Egypt

Egyptian employees of the Cairo Opera House and opponents of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi hold placards during a demonstration inside the opera's compound in Cairo on May 30, following the dismissal of the head of the opera house.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Egypt, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Mohamed Morsi, Arts, Opera, Muslim Brotherhood

Sat Jun 15, 2013

EDGE

Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks

"Gypsy." "Follies." "West Side Story." Did you know these three landmark shows did not win the Best Musical Tony Award? Peter Filichia does and he's fashioned a volume, "Stripper, Showgirls, and Sharks," that looks at these and other titles that were passed over for that award.

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Related Topix: Arts, Music!, Tony Awards

Herald Star Online

Celebration kicks off

A sellout crowd helped kick off the Dean Martin Day Hometown Celebration Friday at Froehlich's Classic Corner Restaurant.

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Related Topix: Arts, The Rat Pack, Vocal

The Gardner News and The Spring Hill ...

Local theater group brings "Dreamcoat" to life

At a recent rehearsal of the Gardner Community Theatre's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rich Enfield interacts with Joseph, played by Michael Fibelkorn, and Pharoah, played by Brian Fibelkorn.

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Related Topix: Arts, Edgerton, OH, Classical, Andrew Lloyd Webber

Patch.com

Movie Reviews: 'This Is The End' is Deadly Fun

Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill and Emma Watson play versions of themselves in this Hollywood satire.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Arts, Marietta, GA

Newms360.com

Boost for Baldwyn: Richey hopes theater can lead downtown resurgence

Clark Richey has nearly finished one of his projects to revitalize Main Street in downtown Baldwyn by opening up a community theater.

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Related Topix: Arts, Baldwyn, MS, Lee County, MS

Daily Journal

Richmond group seeks new home for trademark organ

A Richmond preservation group is looking for the perfect home for a cream-and-gold organ that was a trademark of a city theater's stage shows and feature films.

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Related Topix: Arts, Knoxville, TN