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'Cursed Child:' J.K. Rowling reveals Harry Potter play - CNN.com
"Harry Potter" will spend a spell treading the boards in London's theater land in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," J.K. Rowling announces.
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Andrew Lippa Says Sondheim's "Into the Woods" Inspired Him to Rewrite "A Lot" of Wild Party for Encores!
As Andrew Lippa prepares for the revival of The Wild Party starring Sutton Foster and Joshua Henry as part of the New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center series, he told Playbill.com how seeing the "Into the Woods" film inspired him to make rewrites to his own work.
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The Fourth Wall
A Rare View of Famous European Theater Auditoriums Photographed from the Stage
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Machiavelli, Comedian
Most familiar today as the godfather of Realpolitik and as the eponym for all things cunning and devious, the Renaissance thinker Niccolò Machiavelli also had a lighter side, writing as he did a number of comedies. Christopher S. Celenza looks at perhaps the best known of these plays, Mandragola, and explores what it can teach us about the man and his world.
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UK theatre director Jonathan Church joins Sydney Theatre
The man who led one of the biggest turnarounds in UK theatre has taken on one of the top jobs in Australian theatre.
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History-Making Jean Valjean Kyle Jean-Baptiste Dies at 21
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the promising young actor who made history July 23 when he went on as Jean Valjean in the Broadway revival of Les Misérables at just 21 years old, died Aug. 28.
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Les Miserables star Kyle Jean-Baptiste dies in US fire escape fall
The first African-American and youngest person ever to play the lead role in Les Miserables on Broadway has died in a fall, a show spokesman has said. Kyle Jean-Baptiste, 21, fell from a fire escape after Friday evening's performance at the Imperial Theatre, said representative Marc Thibodeau.
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Eight of the world’s most breathtaking theatres
To mark the second #LoveTheatreDay, BBC Culture rounds up spectacular venues from around the globe.
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If Frida Kahlo Smoked a Blunt with Sylvia Plath
[What if] Sylvia Plath once got blazed with Frida Kahlo. This is the setting of Musas, which invites us to be a fly on the wall and listen in on these women’s conversations as they smoke, eat, play, and work… By Daniel Larkin. (Aug. ’15)
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Italian actor in coma after hanging scene misfires
An Italian actor is in a coma after he was choked when the hanging scene he was performing went wrong, according to Italian police. Raphael Schumacher, 27, was performing in an experimental production when a member of the audience noticed that the rope around his neck was so tight it was actually killing him.
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Designing Stages for Shakespeare and Kanye
By creating spaces that are as psychological as they are physical, Es Devlin has become set design’s biggest star. By Andrew O’Hagan.
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‘Shuffle Along’ and the Painful History of Black Performance in America
Minstrelsy. Blackface. Mugging. Out of this twisted past came one of the first successful all-black Broadway musicals. Now an ambitious revival is bringing it back. By John Jeremiah Sullivan.
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How Shakespeare Lives Now
We speak of Shakespeare’s works as if they were stable reflections of his original intentions, but they continue to circulate precisely because they are so amenable to metamorphosis. They have left his world, passed into ours, and become part of us. And when we in turn have vanished, they will continue to exist, tinged perhaps in small ways by our own lives and fates, and will become part of others whom he could not have foreseen and whom we can barely imagine. By Stephen Greenblatt.
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Shakespeare - Shakespeare on BBC World Service - BBC World Service
Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death
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Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber.
Shakespeare biography has long circled a set of tantalizing mysteries: Was he Protestant or secretly Catholic? Gay or straight? Loving toward his wife, or coldly dismissive?
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You Should Be Terrified That People Who Like “Hamilton” Run Our Country
The American elite can’t get enough of a musical that flatters their political sensibilities and avoids discomforting truths. By Alex Nichols
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Vote, Sing, Breathe
The art of protest. By Alison Kinney.
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The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1966-1989 review – a ‘long farewelling’
The fourth and final volume of these impeccably edited letters covers the years in which Beckett was lionised and won the Nobel prize, but became ‘weary with words.’ By Chris Power.
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What An 81-Year-Old Book Taught Berkeley About Donald Trump and Their Country
It has been a bewildering campaign season for many Americans, but perhaps for none so much as Tony Taccone. Since February, an eerie question has haunted the veteran theatrical writer and director: Is his art imitating life? Or is it the other way around? By Kathy Kiely.
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A lynching in Georgia: the living memorial to America’s history of racist violence
There are still no national monuments to the thousands of black Americans killed during a century of lynchings. But for 12 years, activists in Georgia have been re-enacting the infamous 1946 murders of two black men and their wives.
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