Theatre defends actions over play
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A Birmingham theatre at the centre of a demonstration by hundreds of Sikhs said it did all it could to prevent trouble.
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A writer forced into hiding after her play prompted rioting by Sikh protesters and led to the cancellation of her play has broken her silence and defended her work.
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IN A RECENT interview, Michael Caine was reported to have expressed serious reservations about contemporary theatre. He was only interested in it, he said, if there was a guarantee of tap-dancing.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - The Supreme Court has quashed charges of obscene exposure levied last year against avant-garde theater director Gerald Thomas, who mooned an audience after an opera performance.    After an August 2003 performance of "Tristan and Isolde" at Rio de Janeiro's municipal theater, Thomas shocked audience members and much of the cast by pulling down his pants and displaying his buttocks in response to jeers at the curtain call...
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Media & professional: Evening Standard review that suggested an opera made suicide bombers appear heroic was fair comment, court of appeal says.
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In London this summer there have been two notable efforts to reclaim the past. The ever-venturesome Shakespeare's Globe, whose very architecture is an act of historicism, staged three performances in late June ...
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The BBC went ahead with a British television screening of a controversial musical, despite reported death threats and a record 45,000 complaints about its foul-mouthed script and perceived blasphemy.
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The publicity for the play âA Hard Heartâ calls Kathleen Chalfant an âactor and activistâ:  she had come to the rehearsal from an antiwar demonstration at the United Nations.
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A Berlin opera house condemned for   canceling performances of a Mozart work because of concern it   could provoke violence by Muslims said on Thursday it might   consider staging the production if it had security assurances.
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LONDON  - Hundreds of Sikh demonstrators caused thousands of dollars worth of damage when they stormed a theatre in central England to protest a play depicting sexual abuse and murder in a Sikh temple, a spokeswoman for the theatre said Sunday.
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A writer forced into hiding after her play prompted rioting by Sikh protesters defends her work.
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A Sikh author, who went into hiding after her play sparked violent protests, defended her work as one that explored how people can enter a "prison of hypocrisy" and hoped it could still be staged.
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Lord Lloyd-Webber hits back at critics who have called a TV talent search to find his latest musical lead a con.
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The German Opera's controversial production of Mozart's Idomeneo goes ahead despite protest fears.
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Cricket Australia defends Ricky Ponting and his team in the face of mounting criticism of their on-field behaviour.
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In the best of circumstances silence during a good performance becomes something palpable, not just an absence of noise. Involved audiences can shout approval without making a sound.
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The bard, or not the bard, that is the question.