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Broadway Looks at Racism in the Obama Era

David Finkle | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: E. Y. Harburg, Shrek, Broadway Plays and Musicals, South Pacific, Hamlet, Barack Obama Influence, Oscar Hammerstein, Finian's Rainbow, Memphis, Avenue Q, West Side Story, Jude Law, Race, After Miss Julie, August: Osage County, E.L. Doctorow, Burton Lane, Hair, Racism, In the Heights, Patrick Marber, Tracy Letts, David Mamet, Superior Donuts, Ragtime, New York News
David Finkle

Of the 35 productions running or opening shortly -- including Hamlet and Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie -- at least 10 offerings have a rainbow-coalition hue.

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August: Osage Country: Southern Gothic Soap Sitcom Theatre

Brad Schreiber | Posted 11.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: August: Osage County, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, Theatre, Broadway, Theater, Tracy Letts, Pulitzer Prize, Entertainment News
Brad Schreiber

One wonders if there is some theatre ordinance that requires every Southern-themed play in this country to deal with incest. It is as if the fear of boring the audience has been taken to the zenith of tawdry complication.

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CJ Meets Oprah and Doubts Her

Christian Nwachukwu, Jr. | Posted 07.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Phylicia Rashad, Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, August: Osage County, Barack Obama, Entertainment News
Christian Nwachukwu, Jr.

This year alone, Oprah Winfrey has poured millions into schools on the South Side of Chicago; in Atlanta; and in New Jersey. She's remained almost entirely mum about the money.

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"August: Osage County" Reaches Its Final Curtain

New York Times | Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF | Posted 07.19.2009 | Home

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The fictional Weston clan of Tracy Letts's Broadway play, "August: Osage County," may have survived three incarnations of its vicious matriarch, Viole...

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Tony Nominees Announced: From Xanadu To Passing Strange

AP | MICHAEL KUCHWARA | Posted 05.21.2008 | Entertainment

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NEW YORK — "In the Heights," the little barrio musical that brought a fresh salsa and hip-hop beat to Broadway, dominated the 2008 Tony Award no...

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Stage Door: Theater Reviews

Fern Siegel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Aaron Sorkin, New Jerusalem, The Farnsworth Invention, Hank Azaria, August: Osage County, Entertainment News
Fern Siegel

The first must-see, which may come to be regarded as a modern classic, is August: Osage County. Think Edward Albee meets Eugene O'Neill by way of black comedy.

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