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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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Michael Brunner, 'South Pacific' Lincoln Center Stage Manager, Fired For Making Video Of Star Undressing

nypost.com | Jamie Schram | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

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A married Lincoln Center stage manager busted for making a spy video of an actress changing had wanted to go out with her even though he had been rebu...

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American Samoa Governor: "I Don't Think Anybody Is Going To Be Spared In This Disaster"

AP | ROD McGUIRK and AUDREY McAVOY | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: Samoa, Samoa Tsunami, Survivor Samoa, Natural Disasters, Disaster Relief, South Pacific, Earthquake Flattened Villages Samoa, World News

APIA, Samoa — Police searched a ghastly landscape of mud-swept streets, pulverized homes and bodies scattered in a swamp Wednesday as dazed surv...

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Climate Change: Whole Lot of Shaking Going On ...

Wade Norris | Posted 11.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Magma, Ice Sheets, Global Warming, Earthquakes, Sea Level Rise, Climate Change, South Pacific, Sumatra, Indonesia, Greenland, Samoa Tsunami, Volcanos, Denver News
Wade Norris

Some geologists say glacial melting due to climate change will unleash pressures in the Earth's crust, causing extreme geological events like earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.

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If This is Monday and Opera in Central Park, Why the Microphones?

David Finkle | Posted 08.14.2009 | New York

Read More: The Metropolitan Opera, Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, Lisette Oroposa, South Pacific, Carmen, My Fair Lady, Les Pecheurs Des Perles, Don Pasquale, Opera, Summer Recital Series, Paolo Szot, Camelot, West Side Story, Entertainment, Don Giovanni, La Fille Du Regiment, Alek Shrader, Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail, Rigoletto, New York News
David Finkle

My question, then, is: Whom are the presenters doing a favor by offering these recitals? Opera lovers will know they aren't hearing singing done under the proper conditions.

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Theater: "Joe Turner's Come..." To Broadway And Will Stay For A While

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Theater, Revival, Broadway, South Pacific, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Opera, August Wilson, Bartlett Sher, New York-New York, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Director Bartlett Sher's revival of August Wilson's magnificent play Joe Turner's Come and Gone has just opened on Broadway to rave reviews.

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Tolerance Is Not For Rent

Jason Mannino | Posted 03.23.2009 | Living

Read More: West Side Story, Racism, South Pacific, Proposition 8, Tolerance, Rent, Living News
Jason Mannino

This week, for the first time in Oscar history, a political protest is being staged (in the past they have only been health related for breast cancer ...

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Admiring Continents

Pablo Ganguli | Posted 03.01.2009 | Style

Read More: India, Michel Foucault, South Pacific, Morocco, New Delhi, Mumbai, Travel, Film, Mothers, Paris, Papua New Guinea, Jacques Derrida, Calcutta, North Africa, Quentin Crisp, Sagittarius, Marrakesh, Traveling, Africa, Moms, Europe, Style News
Pablo Ganguli

I still do not know what possessing Indian nationality signifies. I have always felt so very un-Indian with only rare flashbacks of nostalgia for things from the sub-continent.

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Where Climate Change Catastrophe is NOT a Hypothetical

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 01.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, South Pacific, Australia, Climate Crisis, New Zealand, Global Warming, Green News
Joel B. Schwartzberg

Just this month, a top UN official predicted that by the middle of this century, the world should expect six million people a year to be displaced by ...

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The Oracle at Delphi

Michael Jones | Posted 10.30.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Melanesian, Ganges River, South Pacific, Oracle at Delphi, World War II, Melanesia, Chicago News
Michael Jones

He told us that nobody was ever wounded in the movies. He would drink his Irish whiskey neat and tell us about the effect of high explosives on human beings.

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Confessions of a South Pacific groupie?

Abigail Pogrebin | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: South Pacific Paul Szot, South Pacific, South Pacific Revival, South Pacific Reviews, Lincoln Center, Theater, Some Enchanted Evening, Love, Paul Szot, Lincoln Center Theater, Entertainment News
Abigail Pogrebin

Beneath my New York armor, I'm as corny as Kansas; The recent revival of South Pacific reminded me of all the lovers kept apart by this endless war and how atypical it is to love blatantly, putting devotion ahead of all else.

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