Theater: A Coen Brother Scales Down to the Stage
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Laughing in the face of the apocalypse and other pesky glitches is key to the three plays in Ethan Coenâs âAlmost an Evening.â
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If one Clint Eastwood picture does not capture audiences' fancy, another one is never far behind.
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The approach of having a speaking cast and a signing cast on the stage simultaneously may not be best for Nick Grossoâs absurdist British comedy.
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The playwriting debut of the filmmaker Ethan Coen sold out before its first preview on Wednesday night Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Companyâs Stage 2. Featuring F. Murray Abraham, Jonathan Cake, Mark Linn-Baker and Mary McCann, the three short plays, under the title âAlmost an Evening,â open officially on Jan. 22 for a run through Feb. 10. ... Kate Winslet will replace Nicole Kidman opposite Ralph Fiennes in âThe Reader,â Variety reported. Ms. Kidman, citing her pregnancy, dropped out on Monday. The film, directed by Stephen Daldry (âThe Hours,â âBilly Elliotâ), is based on a Bernhard Schlink novel about a German teenager who falls in love with a woman who once worked in Auschwitz.
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A versatile showmanÂs final local act is a disappearing one.
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Staged photographs produce some class acts
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A new performance of 'Dividing the Estate' finds the legendary playwright very much engaged in present-day issues.
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As a veteran actor, Fred Dalton Thompson knows something about entering a stage. It's all about the build up.
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A well-made absorbing tale of two brothers in a small town.
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Playing a living, universally known figure has to be one of the biggest challenges an actor can face.
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The Coen brothers are to adapt author Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union for the big screen.
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A profound and affecting old play about World War I offers a portrait of men in combat, without polemics
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&#39;Drama is easy, comedy is hard&quot; -- a paraphrase of a well-worn line -- has likely been uttered by nearly every actor who has forged a reputation by performing the former and then attempting the latter -- usually somewhere near mid-career.
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The first time Liam Coen went to Colgate with the University of Massachusetts football team, he was a gangly redshirt freshman with an impressive high school career and not a lick of college experience.
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Robert Altman is too busy to bask in the acclaim for his latest ensemble piece, "A Prairie Home
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The new Nathan Lane play is strong on politics, light on entertainment
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18 vignettes about Paris, from directors like the Coen Brothers ('Fargo') and Walter Salles ('Central Station').