Read&#39;s Wilde play panned, closes
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Critics trashed the play after it opened Tuesday, describing it as excruciating, bilge and a musical of exquisite awfulness, Sky News reported Friday.
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TENS of thousands of books flew off the shelves last week when the Birmingham Mail linked up with Disney to offer a fabulous collection of encyclopaedias.
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Connecticut students find themselves in the national spotlight when their principal shuts down their play.
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By Elizabeth Langton, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 11--The past is set to come tumbling down Tuesday, but developers have high hopes for the area that was once the Arcadia theater.
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Citing ongoing financial problems, a black theater in Philadelphia has canceled all but one of the four plays it planned to stage this season.
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A musical of The Ten Commandments cancels three performances per week after bad reviews. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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The Broadway show will stage its last performance on January 1.
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Hollywood's version of life in hell  closes on Halloween, ending one of the most popular plays in  town -- a show where stars vied to play Satan and theatergoers  reeled from graphic scenes of rape, abortion, suicide,  cannibalism and loud heavy metal music.
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The author of a play that triggered violent protests by Sikhs in Birmingham has gone into hiding amid threats against her life, friends were quoted as saying.
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The author of a controversial play which had its run ended after violent protests by Sikhs has said she does not want it to be re-staged because of death threats.
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Arts & entertainment: At a time when West End theatre is at its lowest artistic ebb in years, an attempt is being made to restore quality drama to the commercial sector.
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FORMER Radio 1 DJ Mike Read&#39;s show Oscar Wilde the Musical has closed after one night with critics branding it &quot;bilge&quot;.
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Vote of no confidence after nearly 200 groups lose funding in biggest shakeup of arts in years
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4pm update: The first home of literature's most celebrated siblings lived up to its reputation as cursed when it failed to make its reserve price at auction.
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Playbill - The Off-Broadway production of Francine Volpe's Late  Fragment, which was to have been the latest attraction at Studio Dante, has been postponed.
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A play which led to violent protests among the UK Sikh community has its run cancelled by a city's theatre.
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WordsWorth Books, a fixture in Harvard Square for nearly three decades, will be closing its doors Saturday after its owners failed to find an investor to help them refinance their bankrupt company.