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Broadway sings blues over synthesizer invasion - 2010-07-29
NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets...
Russian theatre appoints Spanish ballet director - 2010-07-28
SAINT PETERSBURG- In a first for modern Russia, a leading Russian theatre on Wednesday appointed a celebrated Spanish choreographer as its ballet director.
The Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint...
The lion died, but Iranian circus still delights Iraqis - 2010-07-22
HILLA, Jacques Clement- The hapless lion and snake both died in an Iraqi heatwave, but for the jugglers, clowns, fire-eater and other circus performers, the show in ancient Babylon had to go on....
Egypt play seeks to smash social taboos - 2010-07-20
CAIRO, Ines Bel Aiba- He wants to have phone sex, she wants to leave her house without a headscarf: a Cairo play seeks to confront Egypt's social taboos by laying bare the sexual frustrations and...
'MacKillop the Musical' for Aussie saint-to-be - 2010-07-07
SYDNEY- Australia's saint-to-be Mary MacKillop is to be immortalised in an all-singing, all-dancing musical stage spectacular featuring dancers, acrobats and a massive chorus, the composer said...
Hollywood stars in spotlight at US theater's Tony awards - 2010-06-14
NEW YORK- Hollywood stars scooped up US theater's top honors as 2010 Tony awards went to the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones, Scarlett Johansson and Denzel Washington.
At a Sunday noght ceremony...
Leading kabuki troupe to perform in Rome - 2010-06-07
ROME- Shochiku Grand Kabuki, a world-famous traditional Japanese theatre troupe, will feature their star Ebizo Ichikawa XI in two performances in Rome later this month, organisers said Monday.
It...
Vienna Opera buzzing with rooftop stars - 2010-05-25
VIENNA- Vienna's famed Opera House is buzzing with a star new attraction this season: a beehive on its roof to celebrate the international year of biodiversity.
Some 60,000 bees have taken up...
German village follows 377-year-old tradition - 2010-05-17
OBERAMMERGAU, Simon Sturdee- In 1633, a German village vowed to put on a play about Jesus every 10 years if God rid them of the plague. This weekend, the inhabitants of Oberammergau made good on that...
Curtain call for Japan's premier kabuki theatre - 2010-05-01
TOKYO, Shigemi Sato- Hundreds of people swarmed Tokyo's Kabukiza, the celebrated home of Japan's traditional kabuki drama, as it closed its doors Friday to be demolished and rebuilt into a high rise...
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