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Public Enemies Press Conference

2 July 2009 11:51 PM, PDT | From FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news

Earlier this week I headed on down to The Berkeley Hotel in London for the UK press conference for Public Enemies. Attending the press conference were Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard, director Michael Mann and John Dillinger himself - Johnny Depp. The three all interviewed separately, presumably ensuring they all get adequate time to answer any questions.

For those who haven’t yet read the reviews, John Dillinger was a legendary Chicago bank robber from Depression-era America. The man remains a folk hero to the people, and at the time was a thorn in the side of the fledgling Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Marion opened the press conference by telling us what attracted her to working with Michael Mann:

Q: After La Vie En Rose, you must have been inundated with offers for other films. So why did you choose to go with Public Enemies?

Marion: Because I’m

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Actress Hiob Dies

25 June 2009 9:11 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

German actress Hanne Hiob has died, aged 86.

Hiob - daughter of director/playwright Bertolt Brecht and opera singer Marianne Zoff - died on Tuesday in Munich. No cause of death was given.

After studying dance at the Vienna opera house in Austria, Hiob began working as a dancer and actress, and went on to perform at theatres in West and East Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

She played title roles in her father's plays Saint Joan of the Stockyards and Senora Carrar's Rifles, among other parts. After retiring from the theatre in 1976, Hiob went on to star in a handful of films, including 1981 movie Regentropfen (Rain Drop), 1983's Die Letzte Runde (The Last Round), and 1997's Hundert Jahre Brecht (A Hundred Years of Brecht).

No further information on Hiob's death was available as WENN went to press.

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Hamletmachine By Heiner Müller Opens At Castillo June 12 - 28

11 June 2009 4:55 PM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

Hamletmachine explores late 20th century Western culture, in a richly poetic and layered text. Heiner Müller's masterpiece borrows from Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot and Jean-Luc Godard, among others. (He was "sampling" before there was such a thing!). Müller was a protégé of Bertold Brecht. Castillo has become one of the foremost producers of his work here in the U.S.

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Hamletmachine Explores Western Culture, Plays The Castillo Theatre 6/12-28

28 May 2009 3:37 PM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

Hamletmachine explores late 20th century Western culture, in a richly poetic and layered text. Heiner Müller's masterpiece borrows from Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot and Jean-Luc Godard, among others. (He was "sampling" before there was such a thing!). Müller was a protégé of Bertold Brecht. Castillo has become one of the foremost producers of his work here in the U.S.

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Strawdog Theatre Co. Presents 'Why We Fight' Themed 22nd Season

24 May 2009 4:03 PM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

Strawdog Theatre Company of Chicago announces their 22nd anniversary season of presenting "the whole wide world in a little black box," with the three mainstage plays focusing on the theme of "why we fight": the Midwest premiere of Matt Pepper's "St. Crispin's Day," David Harrower's translation of Bertolt Brecht's "Good Soul of Szechuan," and Curt Columbus' translation of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya." The shows run Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 7 p.m.

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Actress Bea Arthur

26 April 2009 9:14 AM, PDT | From The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news

By Wrap Staff

Beatrice Arthur, the tall, husky voiced actress who made a career out of playing acerbic, strong-willed women died Saturday of cancer in her Los Angeles home. She was 86.

 

During her long career, she played everything from Lucy Brown in the U.S. premiere of the U.S. premiere of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" to Dorothy Zbornak on TV’s long-running “The Golden Girls, ” for which she won two Emmys.

 

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Lew Harris

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Pulitzer for Brooklyn writer

21 April 2009 4:02 AM, PDT | From Celeb9.com | See recent Celeb9 news

Brooklyn writer Lynn Nottage has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama for her play ¨Ruined¨, a haunting tale of the unspeakable plight of African women caused by the brutal civil war in Congo.

Nottage was at home in Boerum Hill when she heard the news Monday afternoon that she had won the Pulitzer. She said "I'm orbiting the Earth,¨ and added "I hope it will raise awareness about the issues that the play raises. The war ended in 2002, but the conflict and violence against women continues."

The title of Nottage´s play, which is inspired by Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children," refers to an African woman who is r....

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Peter Lorre: The Lost One Is Found - An Interview With Stephen D. Youngkin, Author Of "The Lost One - A Life Of Peter Lorre"

4 April 2009 5:48 PM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news

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By Herbert Shadrak

Let’s face it. Many Hollywood biographies are cut-and-paste jobs, recycling (if not actually cribbing) material from other sources – yellowing issues of Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, vintage tabloids or previously published biographies – and retelling the same old anecdotes. Happily, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is no such hack job. It is one of the finest biographies of an actor ever written, on a par with Patricia Bosworth’s Montgomery Clift and Charles Winecoff’s Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins. However, the time it took to research and write the Lorre tome may well be unprecedented. Author Stephen D. Youngkin started working on The Lost One in the early 1970s and the book was finally published in 2005, so there are many first-hand accounts by Lorre’s friends and colleagues (most of whom have died over

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Columbia Stages Presents Brecht's The Threepenny Opera April 1-4

22 March 2009 11:39 AM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

Columbia Stages presents The Threepenny Opera, a play with music after John Gay?s The Beggar?s Opera, in Three Acts, music by Kurt Weill, German translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann, adaptation and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht, English translation by Michael Feingold, and directed by Henning A. Hegland, running April 1st - 4th, 2009, at The Riverside Theatre, located in the historic Riverside Church at 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets.

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The Life Of Galileo Runs 4/10-5/17 At Central Square Theater

9 March 2009 4:04 PM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the year Galileo first turned his telescope upward and changed the way human beings thought of their place in the cosmos, Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT and Underground Railway Theater present Bertolt Brecht's The Life of Galileo! Playing Friday, April 10 through Sunday, May 17 at Central Square Theater, this production of The Life of Galileo, Brecht's widely acclaimed masterpiece of science theater, is translated by David Hare, directed by David Wheeler, and stars Boston area favorite Richard McElvain in the title role. Press night is set for Thursday, April 16 at 7:30 Pm.

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The Life Of Galileo Plays At The Gremlin Theater 4/4-4/19

6 March 2009 2:22 PM, PST | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht: an intimate version by David Hare, directed by Carin Bratlie With No? Tallen as Galileo April 4 - 19, 2009 Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 P.M., Sundays at 2:00 P.M. The scientist must choose between his life's work and his life when confronted by the Inquisition. Brecht's masterpiece is the story of how one man moved the earth and showed us the universe, and in return the Church showed him the rack.

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MacBeth Comes To The Hipgnosis Theater 4/3-4/19

5 March 2009 6:07 PM, PST | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

The Hipgnosis Theatre Company proudly presents William Shakespeare's Macbeth, one of his best-known and darkest works, directed by John Castro. Macbeth runs from April 3 to 19, 2009 in a limited engagement at the Clemente Soto Velez Center (Flamboyan Theater), located at 107 Suffolk Street, between Rivington & Delancey, in NYC. Official opening is April 3. The play follows on the heels of the company's acclaimed 2008 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, which received a 2008 NY Innovative Theater Award nomination for Outstanding Production Of A Play.

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LuPone: 'Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda' at Carolina Performing Arts 3/18

5 February 2009 12:23 PM, PST | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

Tony Award-winning Broadway star Patti LuPone (the original Evita) takes us on a high-spirited tour of songs and roles that she "could have played, should have played, did play and will play," with selections from Hair, Bye Bye Birdie, Funny Girl, West Side Story, Peter Pan, Evita, Anything Goes and more! Earning an Olivier Award for her performances in the West End productions of Les Mis?rables and The Cradle Will Rock, she also has appeared in Sunset Boulevard, Oliver!, Master Class and Pal Joey. She has headlined solo Broadway concerts, and received a Tony nomination for her role in the recent smash hit revival of Sweeney Todd. LuPone joined Audra McDonald for Los Angeles Opera's production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and most recently appeared on the New York stage in City Center's rapturously received production of Gypsy. "Few

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Gates Of Gold Has Its American Premiere At 59E59 2/19

26 January 2009 2:16 PM, PST | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

Gates Of Gold, a new comedic drama by Frank McGuinness will hold its American Premiere at 59E59 Theaters. Previews begin Thursday, February 19, 2009. The official opening will be on Sunday, March 1, 2009. Produced by Artists Theatre Group, Inc., Warren Baker and Sally Jacobs, the production is directed by Kent Paul. Written by acclaimed Irish author Frank McGuinness, who earned a Tony Award nomination for Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, and received a Tony Award for best revival in 1997 for A Doll's House, Gates Of Gold is an acerbic duel between Hilton Edwards and Miche?l MacLiamm?ir, fashionable and eloquent theatrical trailblazers who founded Dublin's Gate Theatre. Gates Of Gold is funny, witty, deeply moving and a vibrant celebration of art, love, and, finally, life itself. This production marks the American premiere of Gates Of Gold, which starred Alan Howard in Dublin and William Gaunt in the West End. Frank McGuinness was born in Buncrana,

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The Public Theater Announces Casting For Upcoming Shows

21 January 2009 11:36 AM, PST | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Andrew D. Hamingson) announced initial casting for Christopher Durang's Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them and Craig Lucas's The Singing Forest. Nicholas Martin will direct Why Torture Is Wrong... with a cast of seven that includes Amir Arison, David Aaron Baker, Kristine Nielsen and John Pankow. Mark Wing-Davey will direct a cast of nine that includes Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis in The Singing Forest. The cast for Why Torture Is Wrong..., which runs March 24 to April 26, will include Amir Arison (Queens Boulevard at Signature), David Aaron Baker (Dead Man's Cell Phone at Playwrights Horizons), Kristine Nielsen (Crazy Mary at Playwrights Horizons), and John Pankow (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at The New Group). Early casting for The Singing Forest, running April 7 to May 17, will feature Olympia Dukakis (Academy Award winner for Moonstruck) as Loe Reiman.

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The Threepenny Opera Opens At International City Theater

20 January 2009 4:37 PM, PST | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

Filled with colorful criminals, biting social satire and a brilliant score, The Threepenny Opera opens International City Theatre's 2009 Season at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center. Jules Aaron directs Michael Feingold's translation of the trailblazing musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill that became one of the most influential plays of the 20th Century. Darryl Archibald is musical director and Kay Cole choreographs the five-week run February 20 through March 22; low-priced previews begin February 17. First performed in 1928, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera was a revolutionary musical theater masterpiece that mocked the bourgeois political movement of pre-Hitler Germany. Brecht's brittle, sardonic tale of beggars, thieves and prostitutes, adapted from the 1728 play The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, was a fierce social and political critique, and Weill's innovative score that fused American jazz with German cabaret captured the ironic tone of the lyrics. Part acid social criticism, part bittersweet romance, the

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Interview: John Walter on "Theater of War"

5 January 2009 1:03 PM, PST | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Stephen Saito

At the end of our interview at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, John Walter joked that I should link to Balzac's short story "The Unknown Masterpiece" when writing about his documentary, not because he felt the title was a direct reference to its quality, but rather because he had finished the film only 20 minutes before he had to hand it over to the festival. Pondering some last minute tinkering, Walter conjured up the image of Balzac's protagonist, the eternally disappointed artist Frenhofer who works on a single painting for years, until he remembered a film editor friend that passed along George Lucas' advice, "A movie's never finished, it's only abandoned."

All this talk about an artist's process is no surprise coming from Walter, who has followed up his unconventional biopic of "chop artist" Ray Johnson, "How to Draw a Bunny," with the equally intriguing "Theater of War,

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Stephen Saito

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17 articles from 2009

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