Neeson plea to save theatre
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Hollywood star Liam Neeson has pleaded with politicians in Belfast to save one of the city's oldest theatres.
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Director Roman Polanski asks the House of Lords to overturn a decision forcing him to give evidence in the UK.
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The outcry from London theater professionals has been growing in response to proposals by Arts Council England, the government arts-development agency, to cut or eliminate financing for nearly 200 arts organizations.
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The author told The Telegraph that ministers should have stepped in to prevent the closure of Behzti, which had been staged at Birmingham&#39;s Repertory Theatre, and accused them of helping to endanger Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, the play&#39;s author.
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Since the cancellation of a contentious play in the face of violent religious protests, British theater has been grappling with questions about censorship, freedom and faith.
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Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre has been saved from virtual disintegration by massive renovation works and is now racing against time to reopen in autumn 2008, the theatre's head said on Tuesday.
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It opened in 1916 as a vaudeville theater called the Ideal and closed a few weeks ago as the Playpen, a seedy porno emporium on the ragged rim of Times Square. It now faces the wrecking ball despite a last-minute attempt to rescue it.
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London's Royal Court is considering staging a play which outraged Sikhs in Birmingham.
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Dame Helen Mirren and Dame Judi Dench are among the stars urging the UK government not to cut arts funding.
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Hollywood stars George Clooney, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep are urging the Screen Actors Guild to start talks for a new labor contract as soon as possible in order to avert a strike.
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"Kinsey," which stars Liam Neeson as the pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, is set to close the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb. 10-20), sources said.
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West Wing actor Richard Schiff calls on theatregoers to support straight plays in London's West End.
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Victims of previous financial collapses call on government to extend Northern Rock pledge.
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Â· Series of cinema adverts aims to reach 1m people  Â· Labour MPs criticised for joining campaign
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Movie theater owners on Tuesday urged  Hollywood to &quot;revitalize&quot; the NC-17 ratings and to stop  marketing DVDs as &quot;uncensored,&quot; saying presidential hopefuls  might try to challenge the voluntary film ratings system if it  was ignored.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Kinsey," which stars  Liam Neeson as the pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, is  set to close the Berlin International Film Festival (Feb.  10-20), sources said.
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Arts Council England, the government-financed body that provides subsidies to the arts, announced a 9.5 percent budget increase over the next three years and maintained financing of 17 recipients that had been scheduled for cuts, Bloomberg News reported. Those cuts had caused an uproar, drawing hundreds of actors to a protest at the Young Vic Theater last month. Christopher Frayling, chairman of the council, said that 888 arts groups would share Â£1.3 billion ($2.6 billion) between now and 2011. Another 185 groups, though, will no longer get financing, including the London Mozart Players and the City of London Sinfonia.