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updated: Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:46 am

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13 hrs ago | www.broadwayworld.com | DStreet

Summer In The Square Shows A Taste of Broadway 7/10

TheaterMania.com, along with the Union Square Partnership, are proud to present Summer in The Square 2008, a free weekly event offering superb entertainment every Thursday afternoon beginning July 3rd through ...

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13 hrs ago | www.ctnewsjunkie.com | DStreet

Plays in the Parks Focus on Health Care

July 7, 2008 10:06 AM Posted to Health Care HartBeat Ensemble will team up with the Universal Health Care Foundation this month to present a series of six outdoor plays highlighting the plight of the uninsured ...

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13 hrs ago | www.nj.com | DStreet

Learning Stages presents a Disney classic in Wenonah

The 18-years-running Learning Stages theater group will be presenting this year's play, Disney's Alice in Wonderland, at the end of July and beginning of August.

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Related Topix: Wenonah, NJ, Arts

13 hrs ago | marquee.blogs.cnn.com | DStreet

Your children and 'Wall-E'

The New York Times' Frank Rich had an interesting column yesterday about the film "Wall-E" and its depiction, in Rich's words, of "a world in peril." Wall-E ponders humanity's debris in "Wall-E." Indeed, the ...

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21 hrs ago | St. Tammany Art Association - NorthSh...

Playmakers Community Theater Announces 2008-2009 Season

Playmakers Community Theater announced its new 2008-2009 season, and auditions are being held for the first production, the Neil Simon comedy Lost in Yonkers.

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Related Topix: Music!, Tony Awards, Arts, Yonkers, NY

Sun Jul 06, 2008

Boston Globe

Owners hoping to put life in the theater

Inside the dusty old Everett Theater in Hyde Park, it's hard to see signs of grandeur: Pieces of the old ceiling lie in piles on the floor, the gold curtains are rotted, paint is peeling off the walls.

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Related Topix: Hyde-Park, MA, Arts, Boston, MA

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Author sets stage for Depression-era theater program

Author Sarah Quinn has chronicled the history and achievements of one of the least-known branches of the Works Progress Administration, the massive Depression-era government relief program.

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Related Topix: Arts, Shorewood, WI

SanLuisObispo.com

SLO Little Theater does a musical tribute to Tinseltown

The 'Best of Hollywood' show celebrates the history of movies. 'BEST OF HOLLYWOOD: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO TINSELTOWN' 8 p. m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p. m. Saturdays and Sundays through July 20 888 ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Ballet, San Luis Obispo, CA, San Luis Obispo Metro, Dance

Grand Haven Tribune

Fremont youth theater performs July 11-20

Dogwood Summer Youth Theatre will present "Love's Labour's Lost," an adaptation of Shakespeare's work, beginning July 11.

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Related Topix: Arts, Fremont, MI

The News-Record

Theater professor earns LU honor

A Lawrence University theater professor has earned one of the school's prestigious professorships.

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Ledger Dispatch

Display ties library to theater

THE GLASS CASE just inside the front door of the El Cerrito Library has one of its most colorful displays in recent memory.

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Related Topix: El Cerrito, CA, Arts, Richmond, CA

Sat Jul 05, 2008

Courier News Online

Plays in the Park draws fans from throughout Somerset County

For thousands of theater fans, the arrival of summer means it's time for free Plays in the Park in the township's Basking Ridge section.

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Related Topix: Somerset County, NJ, Basking Ridge, NJ, Arts, Millington, NJ, Opera

WNED.org

"Pink Panther" trailer ties in to hit cartoons

Last weekend, like a lot of other moviegoers, Steve Martin's Inspector Clouseau lined up to buy a ticket to "WALL-E." He struggled several times to pronounce "I would like a ticket for 'WALL-E"' only to learn ...

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cbs2chicago.com

'Ragtime' To Go Ahead In Wilmette After All

Officials in north suburban Wilmette say the musical "Ragtime" can now go ahead -- a week after they canceled its showing at an outdoor park theater.

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Related Topix: Wilmette, IL, Arts

KLFY-TV Lafayette

Color Purple actress at screening Sunday in Shreveport

Margaret Avery, in rehearsals for a local theater production, will attend a showing of the movie that won her an Oscar nomination and participate in an open question & answer session on Sunday.

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Related Topix: Margaret Avery, The Color Purple, Drama, Musical Movies, Arts, Shreveport, LA, Shreveport Metro

LongmontFYI

Theaters mull background checks after arrest of Longmont actor

California Actors Theatre doesn't conduct background checks on cast and crew members.

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Riverfront Times

Dennis Doesn't Write the Headlines: RFT theater critic sets the...

There seems to be a misapprehension circling around town that I have an agenda against Shakespeare Festival St.

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Related Topix: St. Louis, MO, Arts

Fri Jul 04, 2008

The Star Online

Colombia shows rescue video, Paris fetes Betancourt

Colombia showed a video on Friday of the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages where their anger turned to ecstasy as theater-trained military agents duped and overpowered leftist rebels.

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Related Topix: Arts, US Military, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Rock Island Arsenal, uS Army, Yuma Proving Ground, United States Military Academy, Fort Bliss

Black Hills Bandit

Workers at Milan's La Scala plan strike

Workers at Milan's famed La Scala opera house say they will stage a strike next week that will cancel the first three performances of Franco Zeffirelli's production of "La Boheme." Union representative ...

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WHP-TV Harrisburg

Holmes' play failing to sell?

The Fourth of July is celebrated at the magazine; Victor is angry with Adam about Heather; Victoria allows Sabrina to hold Reed; Amber and Adrian comfort each other; Cane and Chloe are stranded.

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