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

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
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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 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
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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
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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
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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 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
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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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Infinite Jest—Caricatures at the Met

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
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“I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest.” Hamlet Down through history, artists have often looked to the lighter side of life when seeking

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