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Lots of drama, a bit of frivolity
Tribune criticIn a lot of American cities, recession-challenged arts organizations are canceling major projects, reducing risk, and trotting out proven box-office hits. But not Chicago. The winter theater season that kicks off in Chicagoland this week is notable for...Tags: Literature, Broadway, Navy Pier, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Festive Event
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HOT STUFF
MOVIES BRIDE WARS. Rival brides Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson vie to have their dream weddings at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Opens Friday. NOT EASILY BROKEN. A marital drama based on the book by pastor T.D. Jakes. With Morris Chestnut and Taraji P. Henson...Tags: Morris Chestnut, Chuck Berry, Anne Hathaway, America Ferrera, Ethan Hawke
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Critics Choice: "Dying City" at Hartford Stage, "Prince Valiant" Comic Strip
THEATER It's going to be quite a week for the Hartford-born, Wethersfield-raised Christopher Shinn, below. His play "Dying City" begins performances Thursday at Hartford Stage, 50 Church St. (the run continues through Feb. 8). And his adaptation of the...Tags: Theater, Cartoons, American Airlines, Inc., Imperial and Royal Matters, Mary-Louise Parker
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Jackman claws his way to top
Hugh Jackman has achieved legendary success on stages in his native Australia as well as America and England, playing everyone from Curly the singing cowboy in Oklahoma! togay entertainer Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. On screen, he's taken a shot at...Tags: Hugh Jackman, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (movie), Billy Wilder, Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood
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'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'
rafer.guzman@newsday.com.Another year, another minor masterpiece from writer-director Woody Allen, who's been turning out a movie or more annually since completing his heavyweight New York trilogy ("Annie Hall," " Manhattan" and "Stardust Memories") in the early 1980s. Allen once...Tags: Penelope Cruz, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen, Javier Bardem
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Alice Ripley plays Mrs. Walker her way (not Ann-Margret's) in 'The Who's Tommy'
Times Staff WriterTONY-nominated actress and pop musician Alice Ripley is about to become a mother for the third time. Sort of. When "The Who's Tommy" pop musician is unveiled this weekend at Hollywood's Ricardo Montalbán Theatre, it will mark Ripley's third appearance as...Tags: Broadway, Music, Mental Illness, Music Industry, Illnesses
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Court's Newell will be busy on the boards
TRIBUNE CRITICCharles Newell had better get some rest. Come fall, the artistic director of the Court Theatre in Hyde Park will be spending a lot of time in rehearsal. Not only is Newell slated to direct two of the three just-announced shows in Court's 2008-09 season,...Tags: Theater, Goodman Theatre, Court Administration, Music Theater, Hyde Park
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New on DVD
Metromix StaffPICK OF THE WEEK: THE HOST (Magnolia) Any movie with a mutant sea creature terrorizing a South Korean riverfront is going to have geek-appeal to spare, but this well-crafted international horror hit has the goods to captivate a broader audience. Mixing...Tags: Doris Day, John Grisham, Frank Sinatra, Book, Movies
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'Dollhouse' hits the heights
Special to the Tribune"I'm always leery of stunt casting," says Mark Povinelli, the 4-foot-tall actor who stars in "Mabou Mines Dollhouse," a post-modern twist on Henrik Ibsen's 1879 proto-feminist classic. Questions about casting are likely to be part of any conversation...Tags: Theater, Medical Conditions, Oregon, Arts
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'Nora': 'Doll's House' redux
The problem with 'Nora' is that it makes the superior, natural 'A Doll's House' into a technical, surreal production. It ís Ingmar Bergman literally doing Henrik Ibsen, and is about what you'd expect. However, 'Nora' works just as well as zippy drama....Tags: Theater, Ingmar Bergman
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For Mamet, 'Inheritance' isn't business as usual
Newsday Staff WriterEvery so often, David Mamet abandons his own dazzling foul-mouth poetic satires and close-to-the-bone dramas to explore the moral quandaries of other men's times. He has adapted three Chekhov plays and, in 1999, filmed his own version of "The Winslow Boy,...Tags: Literature, David Mamet, David Warren, Theater, Fraud
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Movie review: 'The Architect'
Tribune movie critic2˝ stars (out of four) "The Architect" is a Chicago story, an intricate social-psychological drama about a now-wealthy architect (played by Anthony LaPaglia) whose youthful design for a minority public housing project gets him into current trouble....Tags: Tennessee Williams, John Bailey, Isabella Rossellini, Arthur Miller, Architecture
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