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'Grinch': It's a stretch for this seasonal favorite
So what maketh an excellent Grinch? Well, take one part Harvey Fierstein, add one part Christopher Walken, shake the whole with just a macabre splash of Richard Nixon and you've got a verdant critter capable of evoking nightmares, the intensity of which...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Luxury Vehicles, Entertainment, Palace Theater
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Holiday Guide 2012: Chris Jones' Top 10 shows for the season
Chicago has a plethora of holiday shows each and every year — and I’ll be reviewing enough of them over the next couple of weeks to put Rudolph in rehab. But based on many years of seasonal theater-going, here are 10 of our potential favorites...
Tags: Broadway Theater, Customs and Tradition, Music, Theater, Christmas
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The Old Globe's 2011-2012 season to include to four world premieres
Culture MonsterThe Old Globe in San Diego announced it will produce the world premieres of four new plays and musicals the Old Globe's upcoming 2011-2012 season. The winter season will feature the world premiere musicals "Some Lovers," by Burt Bacharach and Steven... -
Christopher Lloyd withdraws from 'Grinch' at the Pantages
Culture MonsterThe upcoming production of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical" at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre has just lost its Grinch. Actor Christopher Lloyd -- best known for playing Doc in the "Back to the Future" movies -- has...... -
Theater review: 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' at the Pantages Theatre
Culture MonsterAww, the Grinch is just an old softy. OK, yeah, you know that already because as a child you, with someone you loved, flipped through the wild rhymes and even wilder illustrations of the original Dr. Seuss book "How the...... -
Two Neil Simon plays and a hip-hop drama will open 2010-11 season at San Diego's Old Globe
Culture MonsterThe 2010-11 winter season at the Old Globe in San Diego will feature plays that explore what Executive Producer Lou Spisto calls "the dynamics of family life--but not in the way that term is often used." "These are stories about...... -
Old Globe's 2013-14 season to include extra helpings of the Bard
The Old Globe’s new artistic director, Barry Edelstein, is a noted Shakespearean, and its 2013-14 season, the first he’s picked, will give extra emphasis to the Bard, beyond the separate summer series that typically offers at least two...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Theater, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Music Theater
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L.A. area theaters hope to strike holiday gold
"What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?" — Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol." At the box office there is no "Bah! Humbug!" The recompense that two big Southern California theaters...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Music, Kirk Douglas, Theater, Christmas
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Kandy Kane Ball toy drive breaks records
Special to Tribune NewspapersFor the 10th annual Kandy Kane Ball on Dec. 8, a semitrailer was parked outside Joe's Bar waiting to be filled with toys from the party, described by event organizers as the largest private toy drive in the city. More than 1,000 patrons, many clad in...Tags: Holidays, Services and Shopping, Event Planning, Toy Industry, Dr. Seuss
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Old Globe's autism-friendly 'Grinch' performance to be SoCal first
The Old Globe in San Diego will hold a special autism-friendly performance of its annual holiday production of "Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" The performance at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 15, which is geared toward individuals on the...
Tags: Autism, Politics, Arts and Culture, Dr. Seuss, Lobbying
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Memories that bind
When we think about the year-end holidays, books often are at the center of our memories. Maybe we received a special book as a gift, and it became a cherished memento. Or maybe we read a book about the holidays each year, as a treasured part of our...Tags: Poetry, Hanukkah, Robert Frost, Customs and Tradition, Mary Schmich
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