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Pittsburgh Public Theater's The Chief
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 4 months ago
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While it's true I'm not what you'd call much of a sports fan, it's pierced even my consciousness that the Steelers didn't perform up to expectations this year. (I follow the team's success by the amount of black-and-gold cupcakes available at Giant
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Pittsburgh Public Theater's Good People
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 6 months ago
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The history of Boston is a tale of two cities: On one side, there's Harvard, the Green Monster and the Liberty Trail. On the other, there's Whitey Bulger, the busing crisis and the Big Dig...Every city has its class struggle, but Boston's is old,
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Sigmund Freud, C.S. Lewis debate existence of God in Pittsburgh Public Theater production 'Freud's Last Session'
Oxford :: MA :: USA | 1 year ago
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In the play "Freud's Last Session," the father of psychoanalysis debates author C.S...The imagined meeting takes place as Great Britain is plunged into World War II and hard-line atheist Sigmund Freud is homebound, dying of cancer. He is visited in
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Public Theater plans all-American lineup for 2012-13
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The all-American season wasn't the mission, but a product of programming that has "1776," a Tony-winning musical about the birth of the nation, and the first regional production of "Thurgood," the one-man show about the first African-American Supreme
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Playwright confronts age issues with 'Elder Hostages' trilogy
California City :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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For its run in Pittsburgh Playwrights' new Downtown home at 937 Liberty Ave., the Ray Werner play is bonded with "Work in Progress," an exhibition by former Post-Gazette photographer Annie O'Neill showing portraits of people who have worked at one
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Public Theater extends Ted Pappas' contract
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Ted Pappas and Pittsburgh Public Theater have solidified their future together, with the producing artistic director agreeing to stay on through 2018 and an eye toward new artistic endeavors for the company...Ginsberg, president of the Public's board
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barebones productions launches 2012 with prison drama 'Jesus Hopped the A Train'
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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In a busy January of new and new-to-Pittsburgh shows, barebones productions is first out of the gate with "Jesus Hopped the A Train," a gritty prison-set drama that fits the mold artistic director Patrick Jordan has set for the company. "It's
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Public's 'Electra' electrifies
Athens :: PA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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They really know how to tell a tragic tale of passion and blood, those ancient Greeks: start in the middle and plunge toward the finish line, with only a few pauses for lyric lament. That's the case with Sophocles' "Electra" now given a sure-handed
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The Next Page / The Library: a garden for growing minds
Oakland :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Malehorn looks back, and forward, to the immense value of a library as a factory for self-improvement...Malehorn, dave_malehorn@msn.com Bob Donaldson/Post-Gazette August Wilson at the Carnegie Library's Hill District branch on March 18, 1999, when he
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Fall Arts Preview: Stage
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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City Theatre has just announced casting that will have hearts of TV fans fluttering. Luke Macfarlane, who played Scotty Wandell on ABC's "Brothers & Sisters" and has been on Broadway this year in "The Normal Heart," will take on the title role in the
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