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Roman Polanski’s Carnage
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around
There’s always a danger adapting a stage play for film, particularly when the 2009 Broadway version was lauded for its terrific cast, won the Tony
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
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
The Fartiste: An Entertainer with an Unusual Talent
Friday, November 4th, 2011
by Alex DiBlasi on Playing Around
There are a lot of reasons to appreciate and enjoy certain Off-Broadway productions, with the quirkier presentations, more intimate venues, and bawdier humor. The Fartiste,
Newseum’s Pictures of the Year Exhibit: Moments Immortalized in the Camera Lens
Monday, October 10th, 2011
by Winnefred Ann Frolik on Playing Around
You just have to live and life will give you pictures.—Henri Cartier-Bresson Among the many attractions at the Newseum on Pennsylvania and 6th Avenue is
The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
by Eleanor Foa Dienstag on Playing Around
Last year, Elevator Repair Service (ERS) stunned New York theatergoers with a six-hour production, Gatz, a word-for-word dramatization of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
Cirque de Legume: A Piquant Salad
Sunday, September 11th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
Cirque de Legume (Circus of Vegetables) is just plain silly. Which is a compliment. What IS silly? Merriam Webster defines it as: humble…foolish…exhibiting a lack
Coming Home
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
by Stacey Walz on Living Around
It is the afternoon of June 29, 2011 and I’m standing in my vacant German flat. The movers left just minutes earlier with our countless
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