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Jackman claws his way to top
Hugh Jackman has achieved legendary success on stages in his native Australia as well as America and England, playing everyone from Curly the singing cowboy in Oklahoma! togay entertainer Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. On screen, he's taken a shot at...Tags: Theater, Laurence Olivier, Paul Newman, Australia (movie), Clint Eastwood
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Comic contestants bring their 'A' game to 'Apes'
Special to the Chicago TribuneThe strangely addictive, merrily bizarre talent show/improv combo platter known as "Impress These Apes" is back for round three, tearing up the Lakeshore Theater Monday nights like nobody's business. An ingenious idea that works every time I've seen it,...Tags: Theater, Television, Defense, Firearms, Television Industry
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'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'
rafer.guzman@newsday.com.Another year, another minor masterpiece from writer-director Woody Allen, who's been turning out a movie or more annually since completing his heavyweight New York trilogy ("Annie Hall," " Manhattan" and "Stardust Memories") in the early 1980s. Allen once...Tags: Ingmar Bergman, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Manhattan (New York City), Wine, Beer, and Spirits
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Alice Ripley plays Mrs. Walker her way (not Ann-Margret's) in 'The Who's Tommy'
Times Staff WriterTONY-nominated actress and pop musician Alice Ripley is about to become a mother for the third time. Sort of. When "The Who's Tommy" pop musician is unveiled this weekend at Hollywood's Ricardo Montalbán Theatre, it will mark Ripley's third appearance as...Tags: Theater, Broadway, Music Theater, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Mental Illness
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Court's Newell will be busy on the boards
TRIBUNE CRITICCharles Newell had better get some rest. Come fall, the artistic director of the Court Theatre in Hyde Park will be spending a lot of time in rehearsal. Not only is Newell slated to direct two of the three just-announced shows in Court's 2008-09 season,...Tags: Theater, Music Theater, Tom Stoppard, Goodman Theatre, Justice System
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Non-profit, commercial divisions melt
Tribune theater criticIn theatrical lore, the commercial producer and the non-profit theater company are worlds apart. The former is synonymous with mercurial, cigar-chewing entrepreneurship; the latter is fulfilling a sacred social mission to serve and protect the arts....Tags: Theater, Emmett Till, Broadway, Music Theater, Manhattan (New York City)
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New on DVD
Metromix StaffPICK OF THE WEEK: THE HOST (Magnolia) Any movie with a mutant sea creature terrorizing a South Korean riverfront is going to have geek-appeal to spare, but this well-crafted international horror hit has the goods to captivate a broader audience. Mixing...Tags: Rock Hudson, John Grisham, Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Movies
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Movie review: 'The Architect'
Tribune movie critic2˝ stars (out of four) "The Architect" is a Chicago story, an intricate social-psychological drama about a now-wealthy architect (played by Anthony LaPaglia) whose youthful design for a minority public housing project gets him into current trouble....Tags: Arthur Miller, John Bailey, Isabella Rossellini, Architecture, Movies
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For Mamet, 'Inheritance' isn't business as usual
Newsday Staff WriterEvery so often, David Mamet abandons his own dazzling foul-mouth poetic satires and close-to-the-bone dramas to explore the moral quandaries of other men's times. He has adapted three Chekhov plays and, in 1999, filmed his own version of "The Winslow Boy,...Tags: Theater, David Warren, Theft, Manhattan (New York City), Literature
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Fall Arts: New York Theater calendar
Critic's Picks
A Chorus Line, opening Oct. 5 at the Schoenfeld Theatre. All together now: "five, six, seven, eight!" The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning monument to Broadway gypsy dancers is back where its fans believe it has always belonged....Tags: Dylan McDermott, Blythe Danner, Kieran Culkin, Assault, Eartha Kitt
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'Nora': 'Doll's House' redux
The problem with 'Nora' is that it makes the superior, natural 'A Doll's House' into a technical, surreal production. It ís Ingmar Bergman literally doing Henrik Ibsen, and is about what you'd expect. However, 'Nora' works just as well as zippy drama....Tags: Ingmar Bergman, Theater
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Norway's grand prize
Times Staff WriterALL in all, these are good times in this Scandinavian capital. "The Scream," Norway's best-known painting — stolen in 2004 — is back home in the Munch Museum. In two weeks, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony will take place at City Hall. And...Tags: State Budgets, Air France-KLM, Roald Amundsen, Theft, Sculpture
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