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Once Upon a Time: Brownsville Bred

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

Elaine Del Valle begins her autobiographical solo show with Wikipedia’s definition of Brownsville which includes: wasteland, a footprint of one square mile, and, according to

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Theatre World Awards—Welcome to the Family

Thursday, June 9th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

The proliferation of entertainment awards makes it difficult to figure out which ones truly count. On June 7, the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of

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Woman Around Town: Isa Goldberg—
President of The Drama Desk

Monday, May 23rd, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town

Like many young women, Isa Goldberg had an idle fantasy about going into theater. The Broadway production of The Sound of Music made a deep

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Bring Your Kids And Bring Your Gran—
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.

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John Leguizamo: Bad Boy Makes Good Theater

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around

Remember how your mother warned you to stay away from the cute irresistible bad boy? She was talking about John Leguizamo; and if you played

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The Lincoln Lawyer—In Defense of the Defense Attorney

Saturday, March 26th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

My first journalism job out of college was covering the police beat for a mid-sized daily newspaper in Pennsylvania. Part of my routine was to

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Florencia Lozano—Stealing the Scene

Sunday, August 9th, 2009
by Charlene Giannetti on Woman Around Town

Perfect Stranger, the 2007 thriller starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, was not a box office hit. The director shot several different endings, apparently unsure

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