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musical
Writer Kaufman Brings Offbeat to Stage
During the period he lived in New York and worked odd jobs, Charlie Kaufman once had a conversation with a colleague about Jews and height.
Get ‘Wicked’ in the Windy City
More than 2.77 million Chicagoans work, live and play in nearly 100 distinctive neighborhoods, divided by ethnicity, class and geography.
Vilanch: A Divine ‘Hair’ Apparent
Two minutes into the interview, Bruce Vilanch kvetches about pantyhose. The hefty actor dons them eight times a week to play Edna Turnblad, the plus-size Baltimore hausfrau in the hit musical "Hairspray," now at the Pantages Theatre.
7 Days In Arts
Make a play date today or tomorrow. The Celebrity Staged Play Reading Series performance of \”Talley\’s Folley\” presents husband-and-wife team Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James reprising their roles in last month\’s Pasadena Playhouse production.
Manilow Finds ‘Harmony’ on the Stage
A funny thing happened to Barry Manilow on the way to Broadway: He wound up a pop star instead.
Rebel, Rebel
Rabbi Jonathan Aaron of Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills knows as much about show business as shul business.\n\nThe 39-year-old rabbi, a former actor and managing director of the Open Forum Theatre in Connecticut, is the author of a new musical, \”Hyrcanus,\” an intergenerational production of the temple\’s Emanuel Arts Center.
Here Comesthe Bride
It was the first time in U.S. history that the cast and producers of a play were hauled down to police headquarters and convicted on obscenity charges.\n
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