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    Mare Winningham & Dennis Christopher

    Sometimes hit plays start or stay in L.A., but quite often they come from elsewhere—from London or New York or Chicago, or all the above. When they do make it here, awards and acclaim in tow, it's not unheard of for original or previous producers, cast, star ...

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    Still Growing

    I had a feeling Matthew Broderick would be a little tired of any discussion remotely involving his 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. But it's impossible, I think, to not make some mention of Ferris when speaking of his career.

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    Voice of Your Generation

    When late voice pioneer Alfred Wolfsohn was on the battlefields of World War I, he heard the multioctave death cries of a wounded soldier. This led him to think about the full-throttled squall of the newborn infant. He came to believe that, in between those two existential roars, we live ...

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    Filmmaker Jim Mickle Offers a New Take on Vampires

    Jim Mickle's "Stake Land" may ostensibly be yet another vampire movie, but it offers a refreshing approach to the increasingly worked-over genre.

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    Stuart Gordon 'Re-Animator: The Musical' Interview

    The good people over at Zurvived have an interview with Stuart Gordon, who wrote and directed the musical, based on his 1985 cult film of the same name (minus "The Musical" part, of course.)

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    Jim Sturgess: 'I Hope That People are Able to Accept me as Dexter' (Video)

    "One Day" chronicles the relationship between Emma and Dexter on the same day, July 15, over 20 years. Sturgess was also nervous about taking on such a beloved literary character.

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    For Hope Davis, Stage Fright Feeds Her Performances

    Theater is Hope Davis' first love. That may be surprising for someone who claims that she once had stage fright so bad, she considered quitting acting.

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    VIDEO: 'Porgy and Bess' Cast Discusses Reviving the Gershwin Classic

    The cast and creative team of the revival of "Porgy and Bess," which lands on Broadway in January, spoke with Back Stage about bringing the Gershwin classic to life.

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    School Days

    "I really like bold films. For me it's like, when you watch a movie, I want to see it, I want to feel it," says director Will Canon, whose first feature, "Brotherhood," is definitely bold.

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    The Master Builder

    Jim Broadbent creates characters across acting's broadest spectrum. In roles large and small, in theater and onscreen, Broadbent is a masterful actor.