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Arts | Westchester: Getting Into Shakespeare, No Memorizing Required

POINTERS Katie Hartke, left, performs with Ryan Quinn in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and also instructed students at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry. THE floor is strewn with backpacks. A dozen or so high school students in jeans and ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

Theater Review | New Jersey: Sailors and Mates, at Liberty

Were the women in “On the Town” always so brazen? Two are voraciously man-hungry, and the third is a cooch dancer but only to pay for her singing lessons. Female lasciviousness hasn’t been this entertaining since “Sex and the City” went off the air. In ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  20 Nov 2009

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Theater Review | 'Twelfth Night (or What You Will)': Gender Switch in Illyria, With Players 8 Inches Tall

Orsino emerges from a giant silver ice bucket. Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek straddle huge liquor bottles. Olivia makes an entrance in a loving cup big enough to hold her and a friend. Luckily, all the characters are played by eight-inch-tall ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

John J. O’Connor, a Times TV Critic in Years of Industry Upheaval, Dies at 76

John J. O’Connor, who as a television critic for The New York Times for more than 25 years covered the medium as it expanded from a business dominated by three networks to a universe of hundreds of diverse cable and broadcast channels, died on Friday ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  HBO,  David Frost,  Michael Jackson,  Walter Goodman

Theater Review | New Jersey: Dysfunctional Delights

David Lee White’s “Blood: A Comedy” couldn’t be cleverer as it deals with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, a soap-opera-style family shocker and reflections on the existence of God. The Passage Theater Company’s satisfyingly sassy production, a world ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Lee,  Matthew Fisher

Theater Review | New Jersey: Grieving, and Asking When the Pain Will End

Life looks normal at Becca’s house in Larchmont. She’s standing at the kitchen table, folding freshly laundered children’s clothes and listening to her single sister’s latest crazy anecdote. BLEAK SITUATION In “Rabbit Hole,” Tony Carlini and Susannah ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dan Foster (politician),  Aristotle Onassis

Arts New Jersey: So Much Hardship to Convey

WESTWARD, HO! The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey is presenting “The Grapes of Wrath,” with Wendy Barrie-Wilson, above left, as Ma Joad, and Christian Conn as Tom Joad. So why does the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey’s new production sometimes ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Little

In War-Torn Liberia, Women Making Do

IF you walked into a room full of sex slaves, you might not expect to find role models. Unless you’ve already seen Danai Gurira’s new drama, “Eclipsed.” “Eclipsed,” now at the Yale Repertory Theater, is set in Liberia near the end of that country’s ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Danai Gurira,  Yale Repertory Theater,  Liesl Tommy,  New York University,  Ricky Gervais

Theater Review | 'Pantaleón y las Visitadoras': Officer Gets an Order He Can’t Refuse

Soldiers and prostitutes? Nothing new. But when Capt. Pantaleón Pantoja of the Peruvian Army gets involved, he approaches the project with military efficiency. Pantoja is the protagonist in Repertorio Español’s rousing, sexy and surprisingly sweet ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Mario Vargas Llosa,  Barack Obama

Lou Jacobi, Critically Acclaimed Actor of Film and Stage, Dies at 95

Lou Jacobi, the mustachioed, scene-stealing Canadian-born actor and comedian who made a film and stage career playing comic ethnic characters but was lauded for serious dramatic roles as well, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 95. Lou ...

From ANITA GATES, The New York Times,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Anne Frank,  Shelley Winters,  New York Times Company,  Dudley Moore,  Barry Levinson

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