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Rep. Polis On SOPA: 'The Internet Is For Porn'

Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Jared Polis, Stop Online Piracy Act, Video, Politicians Against Sopa, Avenue Q, SOPA Bill, SOPA Criticism, The Internet Is for Porn, Sopa, Denver News

Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) knows a thing or two about the internet. After graduating from Princeton, Polis proceeded to make millions dabbling in...

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Little-known Muppet Takes Center Stage: Q&A With Murray Monster, Rising Star of Sesame Street

Joshua Kors | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Sesame Street, Jason Mraz, Caroll Spinney, The Closer, Murray Monster, Kermit the Frog, Avenue Q, Ricky Gervais, Scooter, Richard Hunt, Jim Henson, Military Families, Michelle Obama, Murray Has a Little Lamb, Gonzo, Black Hair, Puppetry, Word of the Day, Apple Sauce, Elmo, Katy Perry, Mad Men, Big Bird, Grover, Mark Ruffalo, Muppets, African American, True Blood, Fordham, Miss Piggy, Joey Mazzarino, PBS Funding, Statler, Ovejita, Talk Listen Connect, Video, Entertainment News
Joshua Kors

Murray Monster may not be as famous as his amphibious and porcine companions, but he is a key reason why his TV show, Sesame Street, is still thriving deep into its 42nd season.

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Tony-Winning 'Book Of Mormon' Is Chicago-Bound

Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Trey Parker, Book of Mormon Chicago, Matt Stone, Chicago Theatre, Avenue Q, Broadway in Chicago, Tony Awards, Broadway Musicals, Book of Mormon Bank of America Theatre, Book of Mormon, Musicals, Robert Lopez, South Park, Video, Chicago News

Chicago theatre fans received exciting news Wednesday as Broadway in Chicago announced that the Tony Award-winning, "South Park" creators-penned "The ...

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Oh, Naughty Muppets. What Would Jim Henson Think of You Now?W

Erika Milvy | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Avenue Q, Puppets, Sesame Street, Muppets, Theatre, Theater, Bert, Jim Henson, Ernie, Stuffed and Unstrung, San Francisco Around Town, San Francisco News
Erika Milvy

Stuffed and Unstrung would seem to be a born of the same zeitgeist that brought us Avenue Q; our desire to titter at the incongruity of naughty and innocent.

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Will the Tales of the City Musical Leave Behind a Legacy in San Francisco?

Greg Archer | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Costumes, Armistead Maupin, Avenue Q, Musical Theater, Tales of the City, Gay, Musicals, California Gay Marriage, California Gay Marriage Ban, San Francisco, Gay Issues, Scissor Sisters, San Francisco News
Greg Archer

These are certainly wonderful times for Armistead Maupin -- and imagine the tales he'll be telling a year from now.

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UPDATE: Trey Parker, Matt Stone On 'The Daily Show'

The Huffington Post/AP | Andrea Rael | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Mormon Church, Denver News, Book of Mormon Tony Awards, Avenue Q, Tony Awards, Broadway, Hiv, Mormons, Joseph Smith, The Scottsboro Boys, The Daily Show, The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker, Video, Book of Mormon Musical, Matt Stone, Jon Stewart, Rober Lopez, Comedy Central, Satire, Aids, Best Musical 2011, Catch Me if You Can, Book of Mormon, Uganda, The Book of Mormon Musical, Sister Act, South Park, Denver News

The Book of Mormon won nine Tony Awards earlier in the week including best musical, best director, and others. The satiric musical was a Broadway...

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Today's Pride and Prejudice: Racism All Around Us

George Heymont | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Avenue Q, David So, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, Josh Schell, Prince Gomolvilas, Cindy Im, Marissa Wolf, Berkeley Rep, Asian American Theater Company, Film, Crowded Fire Theater, Mina Morita, Alexis Papedo, Young Jean Lee, Duy Nguyen, Arts News
George Heymont

Gone are the days when old-fashioned epithets like "schwarzer," "spic," and "kike" were enough to get you thrown out of polite company. Now you really...

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Blasphemy in The Book of Mormon

Silpa Kovvali | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Religion, Trey Parker, Mormon Church, Matt Stone, Avenue Q, Missionary, Broadway, The Book of Mormon, Mormons, Mormonism, Uganda, Robert Lopez, South Park, Book of Mormon, Entertainment News
Silpa Kovvali

In a genre not known for its subtlety, this musical stayed away from stereotypes, portraying its two missionary heroes as deeply earnest, deeply flawed, and often deeply conflicted about their own beliefs.

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First Nighter: South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone Cheerfully Commit The Book of Mormon to Broadway

David Finkle | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: The Lion King, Star Wars, Lewis Cleale, Uganda, The King and I, Big Love, The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, Jerome Robbins, Josh Gad, Nikki M. James, Michael James Scott, Star Trek, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, Casey Nicholaw, Avenue Q, Hbo, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Comedy Central, Scott Pask, Andrew Rannells, Julie Taymor, Ann Roth, Robert Lopez, South Park, Entertainment News
David Finkle

The production is hardly a surprise attack by the nose-thumbing partners. It could be said they're going after Christianity as a whole with the appearance of a slang-spouting Jesus in a lustrous blond wig.

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'South Park' Creators Mock Mormons In New Broadway Musical

AP | By MARK KENNEDY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comedy Central, Avenue Q, Arts, Broadway, Theater, Mormons, George Clooney, Musicals, Robert Lopez, Comedy, South Park the Musical, South Park, Arts News

NEW YORK -- For years, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have lampooned everything, from Scientology to Tiger Woods, Prius drivers to Islam, Britney Spears t...

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First Nighter: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Turns Off the Past

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Lion King, Eiko Ishioka, Via Galactica, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Glen Berger, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Edge, Bono, Kelly, Las Vegas, Avenue Q, George Tsypin, Twyla Tharp, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Foxwoods Theatre, Edward Albee, Julie Taymor, The Times They Are a-Changin', NY Around Town, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Spider-Man exemplifies a larger story -- the transformation of the Great White Way from a collection of buildings dedicated to advancing the art of theater to nothing less than a Broadway theme park.

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PHOTOS: A Big Weekend Ahead For Denver Theatre

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boulder Weekend Events, Denver Weekend Events, Denver Around Town, Denver News, St. Patrick's Day, Avenue Q, The Wizard of Oz, Denver News

It's an exciting weekend in theatre. Avenue Q, the long-running and wildly popular Broadway musical, will be here this weekend only. Traces opens this...

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Puppets Take Manhattan

Pamela Newton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stuffed and Unstrung, Puppets, Bread and Puppet, Band of Puppets, Basil Twist, Puppet Playlist, Avenue Q, David Bowie, Labyrinth, Jim Henson, Here, St. Ann's Warehouse, The Bushwick Starr, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Tank, Southpark, La Mama, Entertainment News
Pamela Newton

What's the deal with the puppets? Puppets, like cartoons, used to be for kids. But these days, they're more often conduits for high-brow visual lyricism. Clearly, we in New York are having a puppet moment.

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Bringing Back Broadway Originals

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Broadway Originals!, Marilyn Mann, Lucie Arnaz, Christiane Noll, Michele Lee, Jo Sullivan Loesser, Tom Wopat, Broadway, Crista Moore, Town Hall, Maureen Silliman, Carole Demas, Loni Ackerman, Annie Get Your Gun, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q, Nancy Opel, John Tartaglia, A Catered Affair, Urinetown, New York News
Danny Groner

Broadway singers past and present gathered together on Sunday at the Broadway Cabaret Festival's Broadway Originals to belt out the songs that helped launch their careers.

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Raoul Abdul, Rodney Leonard and a Great House of New York, in Harlem!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, Langston Hughes, Entertrtain, Ken Robertson, The Mannes College of Mus, The Cleveland Institute of Music, James Baldwin, Avenue Q, Homosexual, The New School for Social Research, The Vienna Academy of Music, Gay, New York, Harvard, Leonard-Hanna, Raoul Abdul, Style, Astor, Cleveland, Party, Duplex, Vanderbilt, Nina Simone, Larry Bentley, New York College of Music, Rodney-Leonard, NY Times, Congressman Charles B. Rangel, Ny Amsterdam News, Muse, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Just who is Rodney Leonard, and how has he come to occupy one of handsomest and most comfortable duplex apartments in the city, decorated with a king's ransom worth of African art?

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Colorado Springs Bans Puppet Cleavage

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 'Avenue Q', Puppet Cleavage, Colorado Springs, Lamar Advertising, Denver News

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. � Puppet cleavage has been ruled out for advertising posters in Colorado Springs bus shelters. Lamar Advertising rejected...

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Broadway Looks at Racism in the Obama Era

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Ordinary Days: A New Yorker's Musical (and for $20)

Kathryn McGarr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adam Gwon, Roundabout Theatre Company, Musical Comedies, Roundabout Theatre, Roundabout Underground, Ordinary Days, Bye Bye Birdie, Avenue-Q, New York News
Kathryn McGarr

If you wish your life in New York were a musical comedy (whatever; I do), Ordinary Days -- an operetta-style show now playing -- allows you to experience that dream vicariously.

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