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Saint Joan—Theatrical Miracle

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
by Patricia Norris on Playing Around

George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan premiered in London in 1924, four years after Joan of Arc’s canonization as a saint. It is a story that

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Woman Around Town: Loni Ackerman—
Theater Down to Her Toes

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town

Cabaret Show Next to Abnormal Debuts February 24, 2012 Up a steep and very narrow stairway/To the voice like a metronome…* Loni Ackerman trained with

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Love, Loss, and What I Wore Calls It a Wrap

Friday, February 17th, 2012
by Woman Around Town on Playing Around

One hundred and twenty actresses—from Jenny Allen to Kim Zimmer—have appeared in the Off Broadway hit, Love, Loss and What I Wore, which opened at

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War Horse Jumps from the Page,
To the Stage, to the Screen

Sunday, December 25th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

War Horse, written by Michael Morpurgo, has been produced for the stage in Britain and the U.S., and now Steven Spielberg brings the story to

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Fire And Ice: Kim Cattrall Lights Up Private Lives

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around

Kim Cattrall knows how to make an entrance. Dressed only in a big white towel and diamond earrings, platinum hair impeccably coiffed, she’s divinely luminescent

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The Homeschool Theatre Troupe’s
The Count of Monte Cristo

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
by Inger Berit Hagen on Playing Around

Alexandre Dumas would have been in high spirits recently as one of his most famous stories was performed by the Homeschool Theatre Troupe at the

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Le Petit Coq: Pierre-Henri Guerard—Outsider Artist

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Living Around

Pierre-Henri’s extremely original, whimsical outsider art will be carried, exhibited, and sold by Peoria Emporium 25 East 20th Street  (212-777-3140) starting with a convivial, wine

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Woman Around Town: Gully’ s Travels

Monday, November 14th, 2011
by Robin Weaver on Woman Around Town

Gully Wells, features editor for Conde Nast Traveler, knows a thing or two about travel. But the place she knows best is her late mother’s

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