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THEATER REVIEW


 Sienna Miller 
 on Broadway: 
 Legs 10, 
 Acting 0 

She looks fantastic, but isn't cut out for After Miss Julie role

Oct 23, 09 10:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics agree on one thing when it comes to Sienna Miller’s Broadway debut: She looks hot. Her performance in After Miss Julie, however, wowed exactly no one:
  • Ben Brantley was rooting for Miller from the start, but ultimately she “registers as a healthy, sane young woman
... More »

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entertainment • theater • Broadway • celebrity • Sienna Miller • theater reviews • After Miss Julie

ARCHITECTURE REVIEW

 2 New Theaters 
 Make Dallas a Hotspot 

One traditional, one progressive, they reaffirm the Big D's vibrancy

Oct 15, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dallas has several museums and concert halls that would be the envy of any city, but until now they've seemed more like standalone monuments than elements of a city center. Two new venues opening this Sunday have transformed downtown, "giving the area the cultural stature Dallas has long been... More »

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theater • architecture • Texas • Dallas • opera • Norman Foster • Rem Koolhaas

 Get the Freaking 
 Phone! Jackman 
 Stops Play for 
 Fan's Cell 

Actor steps out of character to confront audience member

Sep 29, 09 1:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don't mess with the wolverine. Miffed Hugh Jackman stopped his Broadway play in its tracks to tell an audience member to turn off his cell phone. Jackman suddenly pulled out of character and asked the errant cell-phone user: "Do you want to get that?" while the the gadget rang.... More »

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theater • New York City • cell phones • Broadway • Daniel Craig • Wolverine • X-Men • Hugh Jackman • stage

FUNNYWOMAN PROFILE

Just Being Carrie Fisher Is Super-Weird

'You’re supposed to be unusual' in Hollywood: Wishful Drinking author

Sep 28, 09 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Carrie Fisher’s shrink told her, “If you worked in a supermarket they would’ve institutionalized you at 20,” she recalls. Not so in Hollywood, where the erstwhile Princess Leia suffered through drug addiction, manic depression, and failed relationships—her own and her parents’. But electroshock therapy helped... More »

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entertainment • Hollywood • theater • New York City • celebrity • play • People Magazine • Ashton Kutcher • Elizabeth Taylor • Carrie Fisher • Marcel Proust • Jon Gosselin • Kate Gosselin • Eddie Fisher • Debbie Reynolds

 Blanchett 
 Bloodied 
 in Stage 
 Accident 

In Streetcar performance, radio destined for window finds her head instead

Sep 2, 09 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cate Blanchett left the stage of a Sydney performance of A Streetcar Named Desire with a bloodied head after a prop mishap, the Telegraph reports. A co-star charged with throwing a radio out of window during a fight “sort of slipped and hit her in the head,... More »

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entertainment • theater • Australia • accident • Cate Blanchett • Sydney • head injury • Tennessee Williams • A Streetcar Named Desire

 Green Day's Rock  
 Opera Hits the Stage 

Multiplatinum American Idiot a coming-of-age story

Sep 2, 09 11:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Green Day’s multiplatinum album American Idiot is taking the stage as a 75-minute rock opera that will “challenge the very definitions of punk, theater, and musical,” writes David Downs in the East Bay Express. A 19-member cast will showcase a “Fight Club-esque story of self-discovery through... More »

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theater • musical theater • Berkeley • musical • rock opera • Jay-ZTV • Green Day • Billie Joe Armstrong

(Newser) - Jeremy Piven was on the level when he blamed mercury poisoning for his decision to bail on a Broadway production of Speed-the-Plow last December, an arbitrator has ruled. "While we respect the decision, we strongly disagree with it," the producers of the David Mamet play said in a... More »

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entertainment • theater • Broadway • mercury • sushi • mercury poisoning • David Mamet • Jeremy Piven • Speed-the-Plow

(Newser) - Actor Patrick Stewart reported seeing a "ghost" in the wings while performing Waiting for Godot in London, reports the Telegraph. The former Star Ship Enterprise captain was apparently not up to snuff during one scene. When co-star Ian McKelllan asked him what happened, Stewart replied: "I just saw... More »

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theater • London • Ian McKellen • Star Trek • ghosts • Ghost • acting • Patrick Stewart • Waiting for Godot

(Newser) - Nobody’s No. 1 on O, the Oprah Magazine’s inaugural “Power List.” Indeed, no one’s any other number either.  “Power can be so many things,” the editors reason, so they’re honoring women who are powerful in different ways. A sampling:... More »

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entertainment • theater • Al Gore • tennis • list • Oprah Winfrey • comedy • power • Venus Williams • Sarah Silverman • Donna Brazile • O, the Oprah Magazine • Anna Deavere Smith

 Destiny's 'Third' Child 
 Hits London's West End 

Michelle Williams plays Roxie in Chicago

Jul 13, 09 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Often labeled “the third one” in Destiny’s Child, Michelle Williams is swinging the spotlight her way, the Independent reports, playing Roxy in a production of Chicago in London’s West End. “People just think I’m the quiet one. Or not talented,” Williams says of comparisons... More »

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theater • London • Chicago • pop music • musical theater • singer • Beyonce • Michelle Williams • West End theater • Kelly Rowland • Jay-ZTV

Appreciation

 Dance Legend 
 Pina Bausch 
 Dead at 68 


Jun 30, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Visionary choreographer Pina Bausch died today at age 68, five days after being diagnosed with cancer, Germany’s Wuppertal Dance Theater announced today. The theater didn’t reveal the cause of death, except to call it “unexpectedly fast.” Bausch’s strange modern style of dance couldn’t be... More »

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theater • obituary • dance • choreography • Pina Bausch

 Law's Hamlet 
 to Go From 
 London to 
 Broadway 

Show to arrive from London in September

Jun 30, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jude Law is Broadway-bound as the prince of Denmark in a production of Hamlet exported from London, the New York Times reports. The show is set for a 12-week run on the Great White Way, with previews starting Sept. 12 and the official opening Oct. 6. Before it arrives Stateside,... More »

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theater • London • Broadway • Denmark • Jude Law • William Shakespeare • Hamlet • Elsinore Castle

THEATER REVIEW

 Hathaway Stuns 
 in Twelfth Night 
 Under the Stars 

Rave reviews for Shakespeare in the Park debut

Jun 26, 09 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York theater critics are giving raves to this summer's free outdoor production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, starring Anne Hathaway. For Charles Isherwood of the New York Times, Hathaway has "the unmistakable glow of a natural star" and invests the shipwrecked Viola with "a bright humor that feel... More »

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theater • New York • William Shakespeare • Public Theater • Anne Hathaway • theater reviews

obituary

 Farrah 
 Fawcett 
 Dead at 62 

'Charlie's Angels' star diagnosed with cancer in 2006

Jun 25, 09 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Farrah Fawcett died this morning in Los Angeles after the battle with cancer that followed her 2006 diagnosis, Entertainment Tonight reports. The Charlie’s Angels star, 62, was a 1970s fashion idol who began her career in commercials and shot to fame after posing in an iconic portrait wearing a... More »

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cancer • television • theater • film • Farrah Fawcett • Charlie's Angels • Ryan O'Neal • Redmond O'Neal • actress • Lee Majors

 Cobain Play 
 Hits London 


Jun 9, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Teen spirit has hit a London stage in a play that involves the troubled life of rocker Kurt Cobain, reports the Independent. The production, Nevermind, features a struggling music critic, John, visited by Cobain's ghost. "Cobain appears as his alter ego: a success who couldn't deal with... More »

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suicide • theater • Kurt Cobain • London • Nirvana • rock and roll • Nevermind • Smells Like Teen Spirit • celebrity suicide

(AP) - Billy Elliot, the British musical about a coal miner's son who burns to dance, won 10 Tony Awards tonight in New York, including best musical and a unique best actor prize for the three young performers who share the title role. David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish shyly thanked... More »

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entertainment • theater • Tony Awards • Broadway • award show • musical theater • Marcia Gay Harden • Radio City Music Hall • Billy Elliot • Geoffrey Rush • David Alvarez • Trent Kowalik • Kiril Kulish • Yasmina Reza • Angela Lansbury

(Newser) - Neil Patrick Harris will host the Tony Awards tomorrow night, and the New York Times caught up with the actor to talk about him and the show:
  • How involved is Harris? "I have a lot of say in what comes out of my mouth. There
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entertainment • theater • New York City • Tony Awards • Broadway • actor • Neil Patrick Harris

 Broadway Audiences 
 Berated for Bad Acting 

Veteran theatergoers say manners are vanishing faster than ever

Jun 6, 09 3:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Boorish audience members have been around for longer than Shakespeare's plays but veteran theatergoers say bad behavior is definitely on the rise, the Wall Street Journal reports. Audience members have been spotted passing around buckets of chicken, putting their smelly bare feet on the seats in front of them, and... More »

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theater • Broadway • audiences • Hair

THEATER REVIEW

 Jude Law's 
 Hamlet Slays 
 Critics 

Movie star's Shakespeare turn gets strong notices

Jun 4, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jude Law took to the stage last night for the opening performance of Hamlet in London, and newspapers were largely impressed by the actor's take on the melancholy Dane. In the Telegraph, Charles Spencer writes that Law showed "rare vulnerability and emotional openness" in Shakespeare's toughest role. Dressed in... More »

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theater • London • Jude Law • William Shakespeare • West End theater • Hamlet • theater reviews

(Newser) - Billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg added to a growing store of off-the-cuff comments yesterday when he defended the Obamas’ theater outing to his Big Apple by saying the president “lives on a budget,” the Times reports. Obama, who makes $400,000 a year, “does not... More »

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theater • New York City • Michelle Obama • Broadway • Michael Bloomberg • mayor • billionaire • gaffe • President Obama

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