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PW's 'Mousetrap' captures audience's attention

There's a near-palpable air of murder in our midst, and Production Workshop's downstairs space is smelling guiltier by the second, but only in the smartest, most elegantly wicked way. For its playful restaging of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap," the theatre has tweeded overcoats and polished accents ...

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Brown cellist joins turntables in Carnegie Hall

To the disappointment of many, the traditional wood-and-brass-based sound of classical music has been remarkably inhospitable to new technology in recent years. With electronic instruments finding little place in the concert hall and orchestral conductors apprehensive about all things digital, it's ...

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History of 'New Age' art journal on display at Carriage House

It may lack the aromatherapy, quartz crystals and Enya music that its title suggests, but the John Nicholas Brown Center's latest exhibition, a thorough retrospective of prints from Edwardian art journal "The New Age," seems to have tapped all the right chakras. Unveiled Thursday at the Center's Carriage ...

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RISD alum Rockman brings eco-disaster close to home

Drawing on a rising tide of disturbing ecological statistics, including glacial melting points and rising global temperatures, environmentalists now estimate that global warming, if left unchecked, could lead to grand-scale disaster in as soon as 500 years. With a significant percentage of its natural ...

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Rambling "bobrauschenbergamerica" mirrors art which inspired it

If anything, "bobrauschenbergamerica" - which opened last Thursday at Leeds Theatre with select performances earmarked for next weekend - will be received by the skeptics among us as prime evidence that, given a chance to traverse Brown's main stage in even the most tacky, alienating and derivative ...

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'Karaoke Kid' not just the same old song

Oakie Pokie is a small city on the brink of ecological ruin. It's slowly sinking into the surrounding marshland, its buildings are falling apart - and worse still, its inhabitants are in serious danger of becoming the resident alligators' next blue-plate special.

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Elizabethan gender bender is a potent production

There is a moment, about halfway through the first act of "Compleat Female Stage Beauty," when the lead character, an actor who has made a career out of cross-dressing on the London stage, begins to sense that his celebrity might be snatched away from him - and this time by a real woman. Fearing he ...

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'Measure' innovative but flawed

It feels like cruel and unusual punishment that "Measure for Measure," perhaps the most compelling of William Shakespeare's late comedies, is also one of his most snubbed. Underappreciated and generally eclipsed by the Bard's flashier scripts, the play, when performed, is often an awakening to those ...

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