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NEWS - Crime Pays L.A. Visit Chicago Company Causes "Accidental Death" in Culver City

Is True Crime Chicago's answer to L.A.'s Actors' Gang? In a sense, explained co-founder Steve Pink in a recent interview, the two theatre companies are inseparable in their genealogy: True Crime was founded in 1988 by a group of Windy City actors--which included Pink, John and Billy ...

The Last Five Years

"The Last Five Years" is Jason Robert Brown's show: He wrote the words, the music, and the orchestrations, and presides unseen as conductor

CASTING NOTICE POLICY

Casting deadlines are Tuesdays at 12noon for the issue which is on the newsstand on Thursday, but we strongly urge you to bring your notices to us by 4PM

Tackling Sophie Tucker

More than a bit hearty in manner—indeed, at times evoking the director of a backstage tech crew instead of the show's star—actress-singer Sharon McNight states it outright: She chose Sophie Tucker as the basis for her solo theatre piece, "Red Hot Mama," because, quite frankly, Mae West ...

How to Learn Lines: 30 Tricks of the Trade

1.) Say lines aloud, and to yourself. Each places them in different parts of the brain.

FILMMAKER PROFILE : Jordan Land - Neil Jordan conjures a world alternately luminous and ominous, whether with vampires, nationalists, or lost boys.

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Livent Aquires Fosse Rights, Plans Musical

The Canadian production company Livent, Inc. has acquired the worldwide rights to all of Bob Fosse's choreography and plans to create a "new" musical based on the late choreographer-director's

West Coast Newswire

3/27/02