Canceled school play about Iraq brings out real drama
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Connecticut students find themselves in the national spotlight when their principal shuts down their play.
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The Mint Theater Company has proved that just because a script isnât known or produced doesnât mean itâs not good.
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Christopher Shinnâs crafty and unsettling new play is a quiet, transfixing tale of grief and violence, set in the shadow of the Iraq war.
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Two Hollywood films that take up the politics of the Iraq war grew out of the conviction that the American public was not getting the full picture of the violence.
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The uneven distribution of the burdens of the Iraq war among Americans is the worthy subject of âFlags,â a sadly clumsy new play by Jane Martin.
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It&#39;s a rare show in the  legitimate theater when the performance is not preceded by a  sepulchral voice reminding you to turn off your cell phone.
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'The History Boys,' a Tony Award-winning play, gets a literate treatment on screen.
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NAIK NAM, Afghanistan -- Saher Gul was chalking a long division lesson on the blackboard of his two-room village school. Twenty-five boys, ages 9 to 19, were sitting cross-legged on the dirt floor. Suddenly the earthen walls and ceiling exploded and collapsed, smothering the class in a mountain of rubble.
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The controversial Sikh play Bezhti (dishonour) which provoked violent protests in the UK city of Birmingham looks like it will not be re-staged elsewhere.
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Iraqi doctor turned film-maker Omer Salih Mahdi had the strange experience of seeing his life portrayed on stage this weekend at a preview performance of "Betrayed," a play about Iraqis who worked for Americans.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play, T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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Hype from the media, fans, players and coaches can make a college football game seem like a life-or-death situation. Not at the service academies.
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This beautifully performed, touching one-act play is not quite the personalized cry against genocide that the playwright intends it to be.
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Iraqi doctor turned filmmaker Omer  Salih Mahdi had the strange experience of seeing his life  portrayed on stage this weekend at a preview performance of  "Betrayed," a play about Iraqis who worked for Americans.
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Fifth-graders in California who adorned their mortarboards with tiny toy plastic soldiers this week to support troops in Iraq were forced to cut off their miniature weapons. A Utah boy was suspended for giving his cousin a cold pill prescribed to both students. In Rhode Island, a kindergartner was suspended for bringing a plastic knife to school so he could cut cookies.
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It seems apt that the last days of the US presidential campaign would feature an animated dispute over an unsettling Iraq development.
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Jonathan Holmesâs âFallujahâ is the latest entrant in the growing canon of documentary theater that concentrates on Iraq.