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The Doors' Ray Manzarek has died
The music, sadly, is over for Ray Manzarek. The keyboardist and co-founder of the pioneering rock band The Doors died today, Monday, at a medical clinic in Rosenheim, Germany. He was 74 and had been battling bile duct cancer. Manzarek's most recent San D from San Diego Union-Tribune Read more »
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Shorties (A Short Story on a Stamp, Nina Hagen on Kabarett, and more)
Nina Hagen: I would educate them about the Berliner Ensemble, the Bertolt Brecht Theatre in East Berlin, where I grew up and started witnessing the theatre plays from age 12 onwards, until I left East Germany in 1976. All Brecht's theatre pieces are caba from largehearted boy Read more »
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In up-close 'The Mother,' subtlety is beside the point
Take heart, ye sons and daughters of the revolution — "The Mother" hears you, loud and clear. Director Max Truax's stark but soaring take on Bertolt Brecht's tale of awakening class consciousness in Mother Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution should be from Chicago Tribune Read more »
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Herbert Blau, 87; theater director staged early productions of work of existentialist playwrights
NEW YORK — Herbert Blau — a fiercely iconoclastic theater director, scholar, and theorist who staged some of the earliest productions of Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean Genet in the United States — died in Seattle on May 3, his 87th birthday. T from Boston.com Read more »
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French voters have had enough of François Hollande and his government| Philippe Marlière
On Sunday, an estimated 150,000 people marched in Paris and gathered in the Place de la Bastille to listen to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the Left Front. Afterwards , the Socialist Party officials were prompt to call the event highly divisive for t from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
