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| Blank Theatre Presents Young Writer's Festival |
Professional actors and directors present 12 winning plays by young playwrights from across the nation during this prestigious four-week festival. Three different plays are presented each week.
WEEK ONE June 6 – 9
THE GATES By Margaret Abigail Flowers (age 17), Interlochen, MI
MOM, PUT YOUR FLASK AWAY By Eliana Pipes (age 16), Altadena, CA
DOWNSIZING By Nick Mecikalski (age 19), Madison, AL
WEEK TWO June 13 – 16
SOX By Spencer Emerson Opal-Levine (age 10), Sarasota, FL
EVE By Patric Verrone (age 17), Pacific Palisades, CA
SURVIVAL STRATEGY By Nicole Acton (age 19), Galesburg, IL
WEEK THREE June 20 – 23
SAM’S BIRTHDAY PARTY By Tanner Laguatan (age 17), Coto de Caza, CA
REVE D’AMOUR By May Treuhaft-Ali (age 17), Jackson Heights, NY
BLACK ICE By Max Friedlich (age 18), New York, NY
WEEK FOUR June 27 – 30
NOT A GOOD TIME By Hanel Baveja (age 16), Ann Arbor, MI
GAY MEANS HAPPY By Rachel Kaly (age 17), Forest Hills, NY
THE EMPTY MAN By Danny Rothschild (age 19), Interlochen, MI
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| Neil Patrick Harris Directs Nothing to Hide |
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Earlier this year, an unlikely series of events led two of the world’s most gifted sleight-of-hand artists, Derek DelGaudio (2011 Close-Up Magician of the Year) and Helder Guimarães (2011 Parlour Magician of the Year), to share a stage. Fresh from sold-out performances at the Magic Castle, DelGaudio and Guimarães have joined forces with director Neil Patrick Harris to present Nothing to Hide, a unique and unprecedented theatrical event. Abandoning the antiquated notions of a traditional magic show, Nothing to Hide takes the audience on an imaginary journey through a series of diverse and engaging vignettes brought to life solely from the words and hands of the two masterful magicians. |
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| Wonderettes Sequel Releases New Cast Album |
| Roger Bean’s The Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns, the eagerly awaited sequel to the popular off-Broadway jukebox musical The Marvelous Wonderettes, has a brand new cast album. The show opened July 7th at Laguna Playhouse to sparkling reviews. "You could tell immediately that the audience was enamored," wrote Paul Hodgins of the Orange County Register. Wonderettes creator Roger Bean has selected 32 songs for the new show and each one, from beloved classic to hidden treasure, has received the signature Wonderettes touch for the new album. |
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| HBO's "Ethel" |
Emmy Award-winning documentarian Rory Kennedy – Ms. Kennedy won Television’s top trophy of achievement for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special for her 2007 HBO film, “Ghost of Abu Ghraib” – has now created a most moving celluloid account of her mother, Ethel. Titled simply “Ethel,” the film is an account of Ethel Kennedy’s life and times. Married to Robert Kennedy in 1950, Ethel Skakel, unlike the Kennedys, comes from a self-made family. Her father |
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| Son of Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History |
First there was Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History. It was a thin but readable study of character actors from cinema’s Golden Age. Now, author Manny Pacheco gives us more of the same in his sequel treatise, Son of Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History. The names are (slightly) different but the premise is the same. Pacheco lets us in on the stories behind the familiar faces of actors and actresses we’ve seen on the silver screen over the years but may not have known their names – much less the lowdown on their lives.
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Anything Goes, now in production at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre, through January 6, has music and lyrics by the great Cole Porter. The musical’s initial book is by Guy Bolton and P.G. Woodhouse. Later, due to a real-life, headline grabbing, shipwreck – in which 134 people died – the nautically themed script, which happened to have a sinking vessel as part of its buoyant plot, was tastefully revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. 
