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Jackie Maxwell Talks About Directing Arena Stage’s Good People
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
Jackie Maxwell, artistic director of Canada’s Shaw Festival, was sitting in the Toronto Airport waiting to board a flight for Ireland to visit her mother.
Before Downton Abbey – Where the Stars Shone
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around
Downton Abbey’s Season 3 will begin January 6, 2013, on PBS and excitement is growing. First Lady Michelle Obama, a big fan of the show,
Adventures in Wonderland
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
by Patricia Norris on Playing Around
I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir…because I’m not myself, you see. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll A simple tale of a young man uprooted
YA Literature – Beyond Harry Potter
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
by Jocelyn Lucas Rosenberg on Reading Around
Young-adult fiction or young adult literature (often abbreviated as YA) is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages
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They’ll All Delight In Wonderland
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around
Wonderland has the potential to be this season’s Wicked. In fact, it’s really an amalgam of both Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz.
New York Childhood in the Olden Days: Nostalgic Look Back
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
by Aimee Garn on Living Around
“The Olden Days,” a phrase that my daughters used when they were young, amalgamates wildly different times in the past. In New York City’s Olden
Who Took the Wonder Out of Wonderland?
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
by Debra Toppeta on Playing Around
When Abraham Lincoln said over 150 years ago, “What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself,” he could have easily been talking today
Alice in Wonderland—Timeless as the White Rabbit’s Watch
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Living Around
“It’s still new. It’s still fresh. If it were written yesterday and released on shelves today, people would still be as amazed by it as
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