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Ashland musings

Winding down this summer’s theatrical marathon in Ashland. One show remains: Mary Zimmerman’s “White Snake.” Yet I find myself almost reluctant to see anything after that ravishing “Seagull,” so...

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Bardathon

Shakespeare is in the air, indeed, just ask the gold-lame Bard raising donations to erect a statue of old Will. The post Bardathon appeared first on A+E Interactive.

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Farewell Ashland

Clouds hang over the town as if to bid this visitor farewell. Opening weekend always goes far too quickly. Yesterday was my best day, a sublime matinee of Seagull, and a lovely, if slight, White Snake....

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Final curtain on Ashland

So many delights this trip from the warmth of the locals to the quaintness and coziness of the town. Indeed, I think I just spotted Paul Vincent O’Connor, an Ashland vet who was also stunning on tour...

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“Peter and the Starcatcher” flies

In the age of “Spider-Man” extravagance on Broadway, “Peter and the Star Catcher”  is very minimal, very smart, very funny, totally charming and ingenious. I saw it last night at the Brooks Atkinson...

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Pandora’s box and exceptional “Clybourne Park”

In playwright Bruce Norris’s “Clybourne Park,” there’s a well-meaning ’50s housewife named Bev — tall, blond, sunny and always nervously gesticulating — who suggests that the lethal bickering in her...

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“The Hobbit”: Our favorite 5 lines from “Lord of the Rings”

Wizards and Orcs and trolls — oh, my! “The Hobbit” is on its way to movie theaters and “One Man Lord of the Rings” just made its regional premiere at San Jose Rep, so we thought it was a good time to...

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Broadway-bound Diner musical to be postponed?

The hottest dish out of the New York press this afternoon is the gossip that the “Diner” musical, based on the ’80s cult classic, may not be having an out of town tryout in San Francisco this fall...

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Review: Tennessee Williams’ “The Two-Character Play”

“The Two-Character Play” is Tennessee Williams to the hilt — a world turned in on itself, a closed-circuit system of madness and memories. Williams once called it his “most beautiful play” since “A...

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NY Review: “Monkey: Journey to the West”

There’s everything but synchronized swimming in “Monkey: Journey to the West.” With its acrobats, martial artists and contortionists, its death-defying slack-rope walkers, warriors on rollerblades,...

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