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Hearing is believing

DATE: Dec 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

The AP picks its Top 10 theater of 2013

NEW YORK – This year’s best-in-theater list is overstuffed: There are revolting children, classic plays and circus acrobats. There are two knights playing two clowns and plenty of cross-dres...

DATE: Dec 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

‘Falstaff’ is Verdi’s only comedic opera

The irrepressible Sir John Falstaff has been variously described as a braggart and swaggart, the prince of rascals and by Giuseppe Verdi himself, “an amusing rogue.” No wonder the...

DATE: Dec 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

‘A Wonderful Life’ on air, on stage

Holiday classic to have 2 casts and 2 weekends

DATE: Dec 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Glamorous Victory Belles revive World War II era

NEW ORLEANS – Decked out in 1940s throwback tailored dresses and perfectly coiffed curls, The Victory Belles seem delightfully out of place in the age of hip-hop. They sing big-ba...

DATE: Dec 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Broadway theaters gobble up Thanksgiving records

NEW YORK – Thanksgiving was rough on turkeys but pretty good for Broadway theaters – several shows broke records during the holiday weekend, from new kid on the block “Kinky Boots” to the ol...

DATE: Dec 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Baxter Black tells stories with style

Show will benefit La Plata Open Space Conservancy

DATE: Nov 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Germany starts ID’ing Munich art found online

BERLIN – Bowing to pressure from Jewish groups and art experts, the German government made public details of paintings in a recovered trove of some 1,400 pieces of art, many of which may hav...

DATE: Nov 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World