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Whispers Offstage? Could Be Actor's Next LineAlthough line prompters once played a part in theater, audiences are no longer accustomed to them and expect at a minimum that actors will know their parts.
New York Times Thursday, October 29, 2009Theater Review | 'Balaton': Family Drama in Hungary and the AfterlifeA fairly standard family drama lies at the heart of Ashlin Halfnight's frustrating new play, "Balaton," at the Theater at 30th Street.
New York Times Thursday, October 29, 2009Circus Review: The Big Top Arrives With Thrills but No (Unplanned) SpillsThe Big Apple Circus has presented so many first-class productions over its 32 seasons that all the usual praise - thrilling, brilliant, joyful - starts to sound repetitious.
New York Times Thursday, October 29, 2009Group: Blind Or Deaf Actress Should Get B'way Miracle RoleThe advocacy group Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts says a blind or deaf child actress should have been cast in the "Miracle Worker" role that went to Abigail Breslin, while the
broadway show's lead producer argues that it would be "financially irresponsible to approach a major revival without making a serious effort to get a star."...
Arts Journal Thursday, October 29, 2009What Fatima Did..., Hampstead Theatre, LondonThough far from perfect, this promising first play by Atiha Sen Gupta grapples intelligently and often wittily with one of the most vexed issues of our age - the wearing of the Muslim hijab, writes Sarah Hemming
FT Thursday, October 29, 2009Garth Fagan Dance, Joyce Theater, New YorkThis work moved like wind chimes on a mercurial day, writes Apollinaire Scherr
FT Thursday, October 29, 2009The Sleeping Beauty, Royal Opera House, LondonThe company's Prologue, one of the marvels of ballet, was profoundly satisfying, writes Clement Crisp
FT Thursday, October 29, 2009UN Official's Play About Gaza War Draws Brickbats In IsraelThe spokesperson for the UN Relief and Works Agency is performing "a remarkable 20-minute, one-man play intended for Israeli audiences but so far unwelcome in Israeli theatres. It tells the story of the main UN warehouse in Gaza, a storage point for food and aid for a million Palestinians, and how it was hit repeatedly by Israeli artillery shells."...
Arts Journal Thursday, October 29, 2009Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini (Hardcover) newly tagged ''theater''Sphinx: The Life and Art of Leonor Fini (Hardcover)By Peter Webb Buy new: $59.85 Customer Rating: First tagged "theater" by Neil P. Zukerman Customer tags: france(2), henri cartier-bresson(2), max ernst(2), sphinx(2), costumes, fini, cats, french painters, leonor fini, ballet, andre breton, enigma
Amazon Thursday, October 29, 2009A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) (Paperback) newly tagged ''theater''A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) (Paperback)By William Shakespeare Buy new: $9.9563 used and new from $1.67 Customer Rating: First tagged "theater" by Cesar Alberto Hernandez Meraz "César" Customer tags: shakespeare(7), in the mediterranean, folger shakespeare, greece, elizabethan and jacobean drama, school eng 107, great romances, a midsummer nights dream, bards and minstrels, school, magic carpet ride, masterclass theater
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