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2 hrs ago | Hollywood Reporter

CBS to Air Tony Awards Through 2018

The deal comes as live events continue to be a top priority in the era of time-shifted DVR viewing.

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Music!, Tony Awards, Arts, How I Met Your Mother, Comedy

6 hrs ago | Common Dreams

Farmworkers Fight Wendy's, the 'Last Holdout' on Fair Food

An oversized puppet of the Wendy's mascot, provided by the People's Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, took part in silent street theater to convince the fast food giant to sign onto the Fast Food campaign.

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Related Topix: Occupy Wall Street, Arts, Life, Food, Fast Food, Greenwich Village (New York, NY), Agriculture, Science, US News, Liberal Political News

10 hrs ago | POP City

5 Pittsburgh theater troupes that continue to surprise

Pittsburgh is packed with theaters - large and small, amateur and Equity, and each is a little bit different from all the others.

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Related Topix: Arts, South Park, PA, Carnegie, PA, Washington, PA

10 hrs ago | Back Stage

L.A.'s REDCAT Lands $244K Grant To Fund Theater Festival, Residencies

The REDCAT has received a major grant that will help it expand Radar L.A., an international contemporary theater festival set for late September.

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Related Topix: Arts

12 hrs ago | Star Tribune

Off-Leash Area theater is lining up shows for garages or barns

The Off-Leash Area theater company is again lining up shows for garages or barns, its venues for a late-summer Twin Cities tour.

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Related Topix: Arts

Tue May 21, 2013

The Pitch

Streetside: Surviving the Mystery Train's murder-mystery dinner theater

There was a time, and it was not that long ago, when the promise of a free meal was enough to persuade people to accompany me to just about any event, no matter how stupid.

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Related Topix: Arts

BroadwayWorld.com

Great Small Works to Bring 10th International Toy Theater Festival to ...

St. Ann's Warehouse will present a colossal celebration of tiny art, Great Small Works ' Tenth International Toy Theater Festival , June 14-23. As it has with great success in 2005, 2008 and 2010, Great Small Works will transform the vast and versatile St.

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Related Topix: Arts, Queens, NY, New York, NY, Brooklyn, NY

The Village Voice

Theater Summer Guide: In Mr. Burns, A Post-apocalyptic World Is Held Together Only by The Simpsons

A few years ago, a playwright, a director, and seven actors sheltered together in a disused bank vault far below Wall Street.

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Related Topix: Animated TV, The Simpsons, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Arts, Inventions, Science / Technology

BroadwayWorld.com

The Adobe Theater to Stage Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, Beg. 6/28

Yonkers, NY is city just north of the Bronx, where playwright Neil Simon was born on the 4th of July, 85 years ago.

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Related Topix: Yonkers, NY, Arts

EDGE

Spring Is In the Air... Along With Classical Music

During the winter months, when tourists and snow birds flock to South Florida, the arts calendar is filled with theater, music and dance performances; but once Passover and Easter pass, a little culture can be scarce.

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Related Topix: Classical, Arts, Coral Gables, FL, University of Miami, Symphony, Broward County, FL

CBS 47

Seth MacFarlane won't return as 2014 Oscar host

Seth MacFarlane announces the nominees at the 85th Academy Awards Nominations Announcement at the AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on January 10, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Related Topix: Arts, Beverly Hills, CA, Entertainment

The Village Voice

Announcing the Winners of the 2013 Village Voice Obie Awards

The 58th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards , celebrating achievement in the Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theater, were given out at a ceremony tonight at Webster Hall.

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Related Topix: Arts

Mon May 20, 2013

TheDay.Com

Norwich students prepare for creative turn as storytellers

Children at a storytelling workshop wear what they imagine would be the expression on their characters' faces during the most exciting moment of their story, for a picture being taken by Ann Shapiro, director of the Connecticut Storytelling Center at Connecticut College.

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Related Topix: Norwich, CT, Connecticut College, Education Etc., Mystic, CT, Arts

The Miami Herald

Review: Spirited, sexy version of 'Master Builder'

If you didn't think Henrik Ibsen's work was sexy and racy, you'll be pleasantly surprised by BAM's production of "The Master Builder," which embraces a whole new interpretation of that classic 1892 tragedy.

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Related Topix: Arts, Wedding

Bellingham Herald

'Chuck' and 'Smash' stars head to Broadway

Producers said Monday that Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez will headline the new romantic musical comedy "First Date" by "Gossip Girl" writer Austin Winsberg.

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Related Topix: Zachary Levi, Arts

Patch.com

Oswego Playhouse Performing Dinner Theater Show 'Death By Chocolate'

The following was provided by the Village of Oswego : Oswego Playhouse's next production is a dinner theatre show "Death By Chocolate" by Paul Freed.

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Related Topix: Arts, Oswego, IL, Yorkville, IL, Carol Stream, IL

The Miami Herald

'Fast & Furious 6' includes scene long dreamed by Justin Lin

The idea came screeching into director Justin Lin's fuel-injected imagination in 2009: a fiery escape scene featuring a muscle car that crashes out of an airplane during takeoff.

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Related Topix: Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious 6, Fast Five, Crime Movies, The Fast and the Furious, Action Movies, Thriller, Mystery Movies, Celebrities, Vin Diesel, Arts

New York Daily News

The Liza show must go on: concerts, theater, awards

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Related Topix: Arts, Comedy, Hip-Hop, Arrested Development, Entertainment, Television, Drama Movies, Cabaret, Musical Movies, Liza Minnelli, Pop/Rock

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

See how some theater veterans have fared on TV

NEW YORK The slow, lingering demise of 'Smash' has felt more like a punch to the gut to the folks on Broadway.

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Related Topix: Arts, New York, Smash, Entertainment, Television, Celebrities, Debra Messing, Anjelica Huston, Drama

Sun May 19, 2013

Noozhawk

Speaking of Stories, Charles de L'Arbre and Kristina Kulchin to Get a Read on T.C. Boyle

Gathering in a group and listening to a well-trained voice tell a story is probably the mellowest, not to mention most ancient, of our social pleasures.

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Related Topix: Arts, Montecito, CA