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More than 750,000 people visit Ford?s Theatre annually to ponder Abraham Lincoln?s assassination ? Booth?s single shot and histrionic leap to the stage, the mortally wounded president?s death across the street at a boarding house, where Lincoln was carried after the shooting. Read full article >>"The Theatre Bizarre" will screen in Los Angeles at the Nuart Theatre on Friday at midnight in addition to other limited engagements across the country.Call it ? The Twilight Zone ? or ?The Theatre Bizarre,? but there?s always a place where scare-seekers can visit to get creeped out. Of course, the horror-show ante has been raised considerably since Rod Serling?s tame little 1959-64 television show. Most of the six tales in the seven-director ?Theatre Bizarre? include graphic violence and extreme sexuality, both seemingly inspired by terror of ...Rudin's fierce reputation as a boss who brooks no dissent is well known. But somehow the memo never got to playwright Bruce Norris .At Ford?s Theatre Museum, decorous glass-cased displays and solemn recorded voices chronicle the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Whiffs of the exhibits? earnest, tidily instructive aura also cling to ?Necessary Sacrifices,? the drama about Lincoln and Frederick Douglass that is making its world premiere on the stage that?s one floor up from the museum. Recalling two documented meetings between ...LONDON (Reuters) - Theatre-goers in London and film fans across Britain shrugged off economic worries in 2011 and spent more on movies and plays than in 2010, official figures published on Tuesday showed. The British Film Institute reported that UK cinema admissions last year rose 1.4 percent to 171.6 million, and box office earnings increased by five percent to 1.04 billion pounds ($1.6 billion ...Jean Banks, the senior director of jazz and musical theatre at BMI and an unseen but influential figure in the theatre world, died on Feb. 2 in her Lower East Side home. The cause was lung cancer. She was 77.?Live from the Fatburger Theatre, it?s the 85th annual Academy Awards!? Okay, so nothing has been set in stone, butWhen Signature Theatre?s ?Really Really? begins, it is early in the morning and it?s impossible to tell just what happened the night before. It?s clear there was a party in the boys? off-campus apartment, stage left, a classic kegger whose remains are the upturned Solo cups resting on the table and crushed Pabst Blue Ribbon cans scattered across the floor. Read full article >>The curtain is set to fall on a $41 million theatre project on the waterfront unless the Auckland Theatre Company can raise $23 million in three months.Auckland councillors yesterday gave the theatre company a lifeline to raise...Theatre - Yahoo! News Search Results
