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On Theater: 'The Crucible' smolders in Costa Mesa
Substitute the word "Communists" for the word "witches" in Arthur Miller's searing drama "The Crucible" and you'll have an accurate idea of what motivated the playwright to write this searing drama in 1953, the height of a scourge known as McCarthyism....Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Concerts, Entertainment
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Bookmark: Inscriptions tell their own stories
The first house I owned was quite small, but it came with a wonderfully mysterious basement. Among the treasures housed therein was a wringer washer, a green metal cabinet that opened with a deliciously coffin-like squeal and a collection of textbooks...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Engineering, Railway Transportation, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Estancia students tackle 'The Crucible'
COSTA MESA — Estancia High School's drama department is taking on an American theater classic about the Salem witch trials that uses allegory to connect the colonial-era story to McCarthyism. Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" made its 1953 stage debut...Tags: Education, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Arts and Culture, Drama (genre)
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On Theater: 'Plaid,' 'Sons,' 'Godot' top local theater
Local stage productions on both the community theater and collegiate levels proved impressive during 2011, with an imaginative musical and a pair of modern classic dramas leading the way. At the Costa Mesa Playhouse, the 1950s flavored musical "Forever...Tags: Neil Simon, Samuel Beckett, Netherlands, Music Theater, Entertainment Events
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On Theater: Playhouse musical a precursor to new season
The new season doesn't start for another month, but the Costa Mesa Playhouse is getting a head start this weekend. Friday night through Sunday only, the playhouse will stage its annual musical fundraiser, this one entitled "That Was Then ... This is Now!...Tags: Netherlands, Stephen Trask, John Cameron Mitchell, Music Theater, Theater
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On Theater: Starting year with Miller dramas
With the arrival of the new year comes another batch of local stage productions. A pair of Arthur Miller dramas will help get 2011 off and running. The first of these, "The Crucible," bows in Friday at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor Theater. Directed by...Tags: Arts, Culture, Amy Sedaris, Comedy (genre), Music Theater
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On Theater: A marvelously manic 'Midsummer' at SCR
Shakespeare still packs 'em in. There wasn't a vacant seat in sight at the opening of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at South Coast Repertory — and after word gets out, there'll likely be few throughout the run.
The Bard's most visually attractive,...Tags: Elijah Alexander, Culture, Comedy (genre), Missing in Action, Human Interest
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On Theater: Newport theater maps 32nd season
NEWPORT BEACH — Time does fly. It seems only like yesterday when the city of Newport Beach was converting an abandoned church overlooking the harbor into a city-assisted community theater dubbed the Newport Theatre Arts Center. That was in 1980,...Tags: Robin Hood (movie, 2010), Music Theater, Entertainment, Newport Beach, Children
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HCC students to perform 'The Crucible'
Students in the “Elements of Dramatic Production” class at Hagerstown Community College will perform a free showing of “The Crucible,” from April 4 to 6 at Kepler Center at HCC. Written by American playwright Arthur Miller,... -
Plenty of flaws in Modell's Hall of Fame case
Art Modell has again arrived, this time posthumously, at the doorstep of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He rose to fame and fortune as the owner of the Cleveland Browns, later relocated for no good reason except Modell's poor business sense, to...
Tags: Pete Rozelle, Sports, Culture, Cleveland Browns, Super Bowl
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No sparkle in Broadway's 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'
NEW YORK — Early in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," the new Richard Greenberg adaptation of the 1958 Truman Capote novella, Emilia Clarke's Holly Golightly climbs into bed with Fred, our narrator, played here by Cory Michael Smith. She passes out fast....
Tags: George Wendt, Manhattan (New York City), Truman Capote, Game of Thrones (tv program), Audrey Hepburn
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Calculations on the edge of sanity in this eye-opening 'Proof'
You may well think you have seen David Auburn's "Proof," the story of a single, 25-year-old Hyde Park woman grieving for the mathematically brilliant father who has left her bereft. The Broadway national tour came through Chicago. There was a very solid...
Tags: Goodman Theatre, Hyde Park, Arts and Culture, Anthony Hopkins, University of Chicago
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