Calls for action on Highland Park Theater

City-owned theater closed a year agoIt's been a year since the city-owned Highland Park Theater was closed for safety concerns, and now there's a growing outcry to spend enough money to reopen it as the City Council continues a process to locate a developer for the site.    

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Congress Theater can sell liquor while appealing license revocation

City officials revoked the liquor license of the Congress Theater on Friday, but the Logan Square concert venue will remain open and continue selling liquor for the time being.    

chicagotribune.com (1 hour ago)

Weekend Activities Filled With Movies, Festivals

This weekend unofficially marks the start of summer in Colorado. You'll find plenty of options both inside a movie theater and outside at an arts festival.

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Meet a Veteran: Victor Lippiello, of Putnam

Putnam resident Victor Lippiello signed up for the U.S. Army in April 1941, thinking he’d serve a year and be discharged. Instead, he spent more than four years manning artillery in New London and parachuting into the Pacific Theater during World War II.

norwichbulletin.com (4 hours ago)

Sara Mearns: WHAT IS YOUR BEAUTY?

Welcome to Barre None, my new video blog exclusively on Huffington Post. I'm Sara Mearns and I hope to be your tour guide into the world of classical ballet. You might ask yourself, "Why a video blog that goes behind the scenes of a classical ballet dancer's daily life?" Because what you see on the stage does not...

huffingtonpost.com (5 hours ago)

James Holmes' attorneys again challenge law on insanity pleas

The defense in the Colorado theater shooting has argued that state law violates a defendant's rights in a death penalty case.CENTENNIAL, Colo. - With the stakes for their client literally life or death, defense attorneys for James E. Holmes on Thursday again challenged the constitutionality of Colorado's law...

latimes.com (6 hours ago)

Pak theatre groups not invited

For the first time in eight years, Pakistan’s budding theater artists will miss a training workshop in India after an Amritsar-based theater group has refused to invite them to attend its month-long theater workshop beginning on June 5 in protest against the murder of Sarabjit Singh in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.    

indiatimes.com (7 hours ago)

Top 10 live music venues in Seattle

Located just across the street from the picture-perfect Pike Place Market, the Showbox at the Market is a Seattle legend. It opened in 1939 and everyone from Muddy Waters to Pearl Jam has played beneath its stately chandeliers. With a capacity of just over 1,100, the Showbox mostly hosts national and international...

guardian.co.uk (7 hours ago)

Top 10 live music venues in Portland, Oregon

Mississippi Studios used to be a Baptist church, and if you have ears, or very recently had ears, the expertly designed acoustics at this venue are just for you. It's a smaller, balcony-above-bar type place, the bonus being that the next- door bar (called BarBar) is nearby in case the in-studio bartender gets backed...

guardian.co.uk (7 hours ago)

Top 10 cultural hotspots in Portland, Oregon

Laurelhurst Theater is a piece of Portland's history, and unmatched in its wide selection of contemporary, indie and art house cinema. Its glowing neon sign has lit up the city's south-east quadrant for nearly a century (no, it's not a bathhouse – wait, it might have been at one time, Portland has a downright filthy...

guardian.co.uk (7 hours ago)

Dying City: Theater Review

The Pulitzer Prize finalist about an Iraq War widow finally gets a premiere at L.A.’s Rogue Machine Theater.

hollywoodreporter.com (7 hours ago)

Upscale cinema could become part of Southgate reboot

Westfield is working to turn Saks' soon-to-be vacant space into a movie theater, industry sources say.

heraldtribune.com (8 hours ago)

DeSoto's African American Repertory Theater scores a home run with 'Fences'

dallasnews.com (8 hours ago)

Plainville whiz receives warm welcome at school after winning National Geographic Bee

After a whirlwind week in which he won the National Geographic Bee in Washington, D.C., and then flew to New York City for a round of media interviews, Sathwik Karnik came back down to earth today, returning to his middle school in Norfolk. Sathwik answered the most questions correctly at Wednesday’s bee, which was...

boston.com (9 hours ago)

Theater Review: ‘Henri Shnuffle,’ From the Sprat Theater Company

An old man takes a look at his life, and so do members of the audience experiencing “One Day in the Life of Henri Shnuffle,” presented by the Sprat Theater Company.    

nytimes.com (9 hours ago)

Civil War soldier funeral reenactment

Bangor High School Students reenacted the funeral of Civil War soldier Sgt. William P. Holden at the Bangor City Hall Friday. About 20 students participated in the reenactment from the theater class and members of the ROTC program performed the flag folding. Sgt. Holden was shot in the head and ...

bangordailynews.com (9 hours ago)

Mohammed Fairouz: Pierrot Lunaire

It's hard to imagine Arnold Schoenberg's monumental musical piece, Pierrot Lunaire, receiving a first performance anywhere other than in the drunk expressionist landscape of 1912 Berlin. My latest major vocal/stage work, a theatrical song cycle also called Pierrot Lunaire, is receiving its first public presentations...

huffingtonpost.com (9 hours ago)

PHOTOS: A-Rod's Miami Beach Home Sold For How Much??

Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees third baseman, has sold his Miami Beach home for $30 million, the highest sale price ever on posh North Bay Road, according to ONE Sotheby’s International Realty. It's $8 million less than his original asking price, but hey the Yankee slugger still made a $15 million profit on...

huffingtonpost.com (10 hours ago)

Michael Giltz: Theater: The Weir Still Haunts

THE WEIR *** 1/2 out of ****IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE What better way for the Irish Repertory Theatre to celebrate its 25th anniversary season than this pitch-perfect revival of Conor McPherson's brilliant play The Weir? I saw the show in London when it was first produced, but it's only on a second viewing that I've...

huffingtonpost.com (10 hours ago)

Jerry Lewis: Le Nutty Professor Takes Cannes

A half-century ago, French film critics proclaimed Jerry Lewis a master auteur for the raucous comedies he wrote, directed and starred in. At the time, it was hard to say which side took more derisive heat from mainstream America: Lewis or France. But time heals all wounds, or wounds all heels; and nostalgia is a...

time.com (11 hours ago)

A season of thrills, chills

Whether you prefer classic rock in the park or classical chamber music in a concert hall, whether you love wacky festivals or serious theater, whether you like being inside or outside, or both, you’ll find a summer full of fun in the South Sound. We’ve compiled entertainment and arts offerings both familiar and new...

theolympian.com (13 hours ago)

Warren Theater working to rebuild

Warren Theater working to rebuild

palmbeachpost.com (13 hours ago)

Night at the Theater: 8 Dramatic Spring Looks

From Valentino's embellished coat and shorts, to Céline's strange (but oddly wearable) fur heels, and Alexander Wang's futuristic use of guipure-laced fish line, the spring runways were full of electric, unpredictable evening looks that invoked a flair for seasonally uncharacteristic drama. The Cut gathered eight of...

nymag.com (13 hours ago)

Friday Fun Fact: The First Movie On TV Was In Theaters At The Time

Only about half a dozen people in the Los Angeles area owned a TV in 1933. But those handful of early adopting TV geeks were in for a special treat on March 10th of that year when the movie The Crooked Circle was broadcast in its entirety. That day the campy detective flick became the first feature film ever...

gizmodo.com (14 hours ago)

Two D.C. theaters test new models for putting new plays onstage

Theaters keep rolling out new ways to premiere plays, and two fresh Washington initiatives are in full flower - or in full beast mode - right now. Theater J’s initiative, called Locally Grown, puts the company’s muscle behind Washington-based writers, while Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s Free the Beast program is...

washingtonpost.com (14 hours ago)

To do: Jazz Night 2013

The Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra will host Jazz Night 2013, its largest fundraiser of the year, at 7:30 p.m. today at Theater @1800, 1800 Northpoint Drive. This year's event will feature Randy Sabien and The Fiddlehead Band.

stevenspointjournal.com (15 hours ago)

Tim Curry Recovering After Suffering Major Stroke

Tim Curry is recovering after suffering a major stroke on Thursday night, reports The Daily Mail. The 67-year-old actorsuffered the stroke at his Los Angeles home and while there were few details available, sources close to the actor denied that the stroke has impaired his ability to speak and his longtime agent,...

huffingtonpost.com (15 hours ago)

Where FIlm Geeks Get Fed

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- At the Nitehawk Cinema in New York's Williamsburg neighborhood, all the meals are served and eaten in the dark, lit only by the flickering images on the screen. Menu items like mussels, owner Matthew Viragh learned, don’t go over so well in the dim lighting. But finger foods? A huge hit. The...

huffingtonpost.com (15 hours ago)

'Theater Is My First Love'

NEW YORK — One clue to understanding how David Rockwell's mind works is by finding out what he collects. It turns out to be kaleidoscopes. The award-winning architect and theatrical designer has amassed about 50 of the cylinders, some of which rest on a mantel in his comfy Manhattan office. A few are whimsical, some...

huffingtonpost.com (15 hours ago)

Gay Mormon Characters Step Out

By Kellie Kotraba Religion News Service (RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.” Pitt lived in New York with a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to...

huffingtonpost.com (15 hours ago)