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PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: Tartuffe Is Teaching Students to ‘Go For It’
Education News PLAYBILLDER Spotlight: Tartuffe Is Teaching Students to ‘Go For It’ Students at this California prep school are learning about the art of comedy. The Arts Collective at PMA’s Tartuffe Welcome to PLAYBILLDER Spotlight, where Playbill highlights shows from educational institutions or regional theatres and special events around the country (who have used Playbill’s…
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Review: LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL at Music Theater Works At The North Shore Center For The Performing Arts
Existing user? Just click login. You must always have faith in yourself. LATEST NEWS Words spoken by the heroine in Legally Blonde: The Musical, the current production by Music Theater Works at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. It runs through December 29. It is based on the highly popular 2001 film…
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What to stream: ‘Squid Game’ returns, the movie ‘Bird’ and Mariah Carey teams up with the NFL
#inform-video-player-1 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } #inform-video-player-2 .inform-embed { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; } The long-awaited second season of “Squid Game” on Netflix and singing superstar Andrea Bocelli’s Christmas TV special are some of the new television, films and music headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your…
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Meet the Woman Bringing New and Classic Black Theater to Houston
Eileen J. Morris is a critical pillar of the local theater scene, having served as artistic director of the Ensemble Theatre since 1990. Community and the arts go hand and hand for Eileen J. Morris, who has served as artistic director of the Ensemble Theatre in Midtown since 1990, following the death of its founder…
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Arts Beat: 2024 Year in Review
I’ve been covering the arts in Western New England for three decades, and I’m consistently amazed at the bounty of performances, the creativity, and the talent that emerges from our area theatres and concert halls every year. Our region has a bustling creative economy, and we’ve become an incubator for performing arts that go on…
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Final Week To Vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards; Hawaii Performing Arts Festival Leads Favorite Local Theatre!
Existing user? Just click login. This is the final week to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards… Don’t miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve! The 2024 Regional Awards honor regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1,…
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11 Hyperlocal Works That Helped Me Find Common Ground
As pop culture continues to fracture, our critic was drawn to art and performances that explored universal themes by way of specific settings. The week of the presidential election, my 12-year-old daughter and I argued over when the next episode of “High Potential,” a crime drama we realized we’d each been avidly watching without the…
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Narrows Center for the Arts rocks in January with concerts, photo exhibit of music icons
With the start of the new year, there are lots of acts coming to the Narrows Center for the Arts, 16 Anawan St., Fall River, from nationally-acclaimed to locally-loved performers, as well as a continuing exhibition that’s sure to please both music and photography lovers. That’s right, the Narrows will continue to host “THEN &…
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Thunder River and SoL host end of the year benefits this weekend
A scene from “Jesus Christ Superstar,” performed by Stage of Life Theatre Company this summer at Thunder River Theatre. The play was part of the company’s new “summer stock” platform in which they involved adult actors for the first time in the company’s history. The summer stock program will be the beneficiary of Friday night’s…
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Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ Comes to London
Dave Malloy’s musical, which was a hit in New York, comes to London in an antirealist staging that loses the 1812 setting and some emotional punch. In a new London production of Dave Malloy’s Tolstoy-inspired pop opera, “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” the stage is featureless but for six huge, light-up letters…