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Greek tragedy goes punk, German opera gets massive
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Why is Santa Clause raping that poor young girl? Doesn't that Greek god look like Mick Jagger? Is it us, or is the entire audience moving? These are just a few questions you'd ask yourself at the new productions of the...Tags: Music Theater, Lincoln Center, Theater, Alan Cumming, Mick Jagger
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Neeson, Fienes and Cumming at Lincoln Center Festival
No one told the Lincoln Center Festival that the arts are supposed to get sleepy in Manhattan in the summer. Weekend highlights of the adventurous fest, which runs through July 27, include: 1 THE BACCHAE. Alan Cumming, the polysexual Emcee in "Cabaret,...Tags: Music Theater, Lincoln Center, Samuel Beckett, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson
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'Books: A Memoir' by Larry McMurtry
Books
A Memoir
Larry McMurtry
Simon & Schuster: 260 pp., $24
"The older the violin, the sweeter the music," Gus McCrae remarks in "Lonesome Dove," Larry McMurtry's magisterial western about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana and the havoc wreaked in...Tags: Book, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Values, Montana, Texas
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HOT STUFF
MOVIES HANCOCK. Will Smith stars as a cranky, booze-swigging superhero who tries to turn over a new leaf. With Jason Bateman as the PR man trying to boost his image. Opens Wednesday. See story on page C8. THE WACKNESS. A teenage pot dealer (Josh Peck)...Tags: Music Theater, Joey Fatone, Battery Park, Sean Hayes, Jimmy Carter
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'Inspector Lewis' fights crime, snobbery
New York Times News ServiceIn an effort to rejuvenate the "Masterpiece" (8 p.m., Sunday, WTTW-Ch. 11) franchise, PBS has brought in a new host for its "Mystery!" series, the impish actor Alan Cumming, who arrived Sunday with a bright red pocket square, contorting his eyebrows to...Tags: Alan Cumming
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11 Shows To See
linda.winer@newsday.comHamlet (May 27-June 29) and Hair (July 22-Aug. 17, Public Theater free in Central Park, 212-539-8500). What a piece of work is man? New York Shakespeare Festival devotes the summer at the Delacorte Theatre to two very different classics about the passions...Tags: Angela Bassett, Music Theater, Battery Park, Sean Hayes, Samuel Beckett
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9 Events To Savor
Special to NewsdayBeethoven Festival (June 1). The leafy glades of the Planting Fields Arboretum are where Friends of the Arts' Beethoven Festival welcomes the season. This year, the Knights Ensemble is joined by the Children's Orchestra Society, for performances scattered...Tags: Theater, Aaron Copland, Children, Festive Event, C.W. Post Campus
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The political play's the thing
It's not the political season. It's the political-theater season. And standing in the bright lights at center stage, the male and female leads keep flubbing their lines. What do you mean "sniper fire," Hillary? What's with the "bitter," Barack? The...Tags: Theater, Family, Donald Trump, Glenda Jackson, John Clifford
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'9 Parts of Desire' gives women of Iraq many voices
Tribune criticIn the most arresting section of Heather Raffo's compelling solo docudrama "9 Parts of Desire," an Iraqi expatriate details the horrors of Saddam Hussein's former re- gime. "One summer, he beheaded 70 women for being prostitutes," says the woman with...Tags: Michigan, David Hare, Wars and Interventions, New York, Evanston
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David Greenspan talks about 'Frogs'
In actor and playwright David Greenspan's latest project, he has adapted Aristophanes classic comedy "The Frogs" into a modern political play titled "Old Comedy From Aristophanes' The Frogs." What inspired you to tackle "The Frogs"? I was presenting my...Tags: David Greenspan
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