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  • Cancer drama stays ‘Wit’ you
    Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Wit” offers a lucky — and brave — actress a complex, finely detailed role that’s as demanding as it is rewarding. When the play first opened off-Broadway, in 1998, Kathleen Chalfant more than took on Vivian Bearing, an English-lit professor dying of ovarian cancer. She... […]
  • Aimless ‘Yosemite’ digs tunnel to nowhere
    Daniel Talbott’s new off-Broadway play, “Yosemite,” starts off great. We’re in the woods, among leafless trees coated with a dusting of snow. A young man — he could be in his late teens — is digging a hole. Moist soil piles up next to him. Wind howls in the background... […]
  • He’ll charm your pants off
    You can tell that George Bernard Shaw was still a young man when he wrote “The Philanderer.” This infrequently performed comedy has a breezy playfulness, unlike the playwright’s more heavy-going later efforts. Its silly fun is perfectly realized in the Pearl Theatre Company’s rollicking new revival. Written in... […]

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  • PST, A to Z: ‘The House That Sam Built,’ ‘In Words and Wood’
    Pacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. This is... […]
    Sharon Mizota
  • Vermeer's 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' coming to San Francisco
    Johannes Vermeer's `Girl With a Pearl Earring' will be one of 35 Dutch paintings seen next year in an exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. It's the first stop on a three-city American tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, the Hague, which will be closed for renovations during that time. […]
    Mike Boehm
  • 'American Idol' producer Nigel Lythgoe joins Music Center board
    Nigel Lythgoe, the uber reality-TV producer who was instrumental in launching Fox's "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," is joining the board of directors of the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles, the organization announced Friday. […]
    David Ng

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My Life With Men And Other Animals

The Break Up Notebook

Pal Joey Los Angeles

About: The Break Up Notebook

When Beth Malone first approached me about “The Break Up Notebook”, we were both in Atlanta, or ATL at the locals say, working on Sister Act.  We both wanted to work together again and “BUN” (as we call it) seemed a great opportunity and in the…

Photos: The Break Up Notebook

East Coast Premiere: The Break Up Notebook Thursday September 8th thru Sunday September 25th, 2011…

OFFBroadwayWorld Review: THE BREAK UP NOTEBOOK at Revision Theatre

Revision Theatre Presents: The Break Up Notebook By Erin Leigh Peck About an hour and…

OutINJersey Interview: Director Peter Schneider Chats with Entertainment Editor

ReVision Theatre’s “The Break Up Notebook” Written by Cookie Thursday, 15 September 2011 “The Break…

La mia vita con gli uomini…e altri animali

un progetto di Change Performing Arts, Teatro del Sale e Red Shoes Productions regia di Peter Schneider elaborazione drammaturgica di Maria Cassi e Patrick Pacheco. An amazing night in Borgo San Lorenzo.  Borgo San Lorenzo is in Tuscany located located about 20 km northeast of Firenze.…

Nothing Without Joy

The Reggio Emilia Philosophy A letting go of time, of hurriedness and unnecessary expectations as…

My Life…Continues in Reggio Emilia

“My Life With Men And Other Animals”, continues touring  on November 16th, 2011 in Reggio…

Historic Teatro Comunale Filodrammatic

“My Life” brought the house alive in the historic Teatro Comunale Filodrammatici, in Piacenza on…

Steve Jobs – - Making the Deal

About two years ago, I was walking down the path at the Kona Village Resort in Hawaii when I spotted a skeletal figure of a man coming from the opposite direction.  As he came abreast, I realized, “Omigod, that’s Steve Jobs.” “Steve?”  I said.  “Peter!” he replied. …

OFFBroadwayWorld Review: THE BREAK UP NOTEBOOK at Revision Theatre

Revision Theatre Presents: The Break Up Notebook By Erin Leigh Peck About an hour and…

OutINJersey Interview: Director Peter Schneider Chats with Entertainment Editor

ReVision Theatre’s “The Break Up Notebook” Written by Cookie Thursday, 15 September 2011 “The Break…

Star Ledger Review: ‘Breakup Notebook’: Musical resonates with the lonesome of all

FULL REVIEW:  The Star-Ledger Published: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 6:58 AM By Peter Filichia/For The…

Waking Sleeping Beauty at Athens Cultural Center, November 19th

The film’s writer, Patrick Pacheco, will introduce the film and host a Q&A following the screening. “Waking Sleeping Beauty” (2010, 86 minutes) is no fairy tale. It’s the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits—”The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty…

Trailer: Waking Sleeping Beauty

“A terrific Hollywood inside sensibility plus an unblinking candor that lets the chips fall where…

Waking Sleeping Beauty on DVD

An unprecedented look at Walt Disney and the Studio from yesteryears. Rare footage and interviews…

About: Waking Sleeping Beauty

For ten years after I left Disney, I had always wanted to tell what I…

Nothing Without Joy

The Reggio Emilia Philosophy A letting go of time, of hurriedness and unnecessary expectations as part of an attempt to get back to the joy of learning. “Nothing without joy,” as Loris Malaguzzi once said. Reggio Emilia Early Childhood Education It might be best to…

La Cena di Stasera

Part of the joy of being in Italy is not only the restaurants, but the…

Perspective Is All In Life

“We tried to go here our first of two nights in Florence after the recommendation…

“Can the creative process be defined?”

It is always surprising to talk to new group of people.  Some have come to…