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Lynn Redgrave Archive at the Folger Shakespeare Library

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
by Woman Around Town on Playing Around

Lynn Redgrave, the original Georgy Girl, died nearly two years ago. A member of a storied Shakespearean family, she let behind a theatrical archive, a collection

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Cabaret Honors Its Own

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

In a year when the cabaret community has taken some major hits (the passing of Donald Smith, founder of The Mabel Mercer Foundation and its

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Once Floats On A Moonbeam

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around

What a pleasure it is to experience a musical that doesn’t make your ears bleed with blasted sound. Once is a rare Broadway musical gem,

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The Hunger Games—The Whole World is Watching

Monday, March 26th, 2012
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around

“May the odds be ever in your favor!” This is the traditional address Effie gives the residents of District 12 before the annual Reaping ceremony,

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The Hunger Games—Fight for Survival in a Brutal Future

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
by Jocelyn Lucas Rosenberg on Reading Around

The film, Hunger Games, starring Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence, opens in theaters and IMAX on March 23, 2012. This is Jocelyn Lucas Rosenberg’s review of

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Detachment—Tony Kaye’s Take
On the Public School System

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around

“You know what the worst thing about this job is? Nobody ever says thank you.” It’s taken a long time for Detachment (opening in select

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Ellen Kaye Sings Ice Wine: Songs for Dark Winter Nights

Friday, March 2nd, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around

Ice Wine is purportedly about getting through the long. “tough” winter to hopeful spring. “Sort of from (Woody Allen’s) Love and Death to (Ingmar Bergman’s)

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close:
Seeking to Explain the Unfathomable

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

No matter how much time has gone by, it’s never easy to watch images from 9/11. Many New Yorkers still avoid the media every anniversary

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