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Ted Chapin steps down as the head of the organization that makes sure you revisit “Oklahoma!” and keep hearing “The Sound of Music.”

Credit U.P. Summer Theater Institute Facebook Page The U.P. Summer Theater Institute is a summer program “for the next generation of theater-makers, movers and shakers.” The program is for current 6th-11th graders, where they are immersed in a three week program of learning by doing, from a team of artists, designers and technicians from the stages of Broadway, Off-Broadway and nationally renowned regional theaters.  Kurt Hauswirth spoke with founder and artistic director Erin Thompson via...

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The New York Times recently announced it is hiring a weddings editor to cover topics related to “how we meet, date, marry and separate.” In addition to other requirements, the job description says that the editor needs to be “highly skilled at hard fact editing.” That might sound a bit odd, but Vows, the much-loved and much-hated Times column about “How couples got from dating to ‘I do,’ ” has had to issue some notorious corrections over the years. Many times, the corrections ar...

The Exonerated tells the true stories of six former inmates who were wrongfully convicted of murder and placed on death row but were later exonerated after serving years in prison.

SHORT INDIE FILM ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE BEING FILMED IN... - Fair Lawn-Saddle Brook, NJ - SHORT INDIE FILM ABOUT ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE BEING FILMED IN SADDLE BROOK, NJ Film Launches First Project for Giant Moose Productions May 25, 2021 – SADDLE BROOK, NJ – Giant Moose Productions LLC announces the production of it’s first project entitled “Strawberries”, a film abou...

Disney’s iconic “Winnie the Pooh” will travel from the forest to find a home off-Broadway this fall

Submitting... His puppetry skills were also called on by Jim Henson to lend his highly skilled hands to characters in the movie Labyrinth and in The Muppet Christmas Carol. When it comes to puppets, Plaskitt has always been a man in demand. Which is why when the controversial puppet musical Avenue Q came to the UK, Plaskitt got a call. The show began in the minds of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx who thought the idea of a collection of down at heel puppets, in the mould of Sesame Street characters ...

Charles Grodin, Midnight Run, Heartbreak Kid, star, dies JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer May 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6FILE - Actor Charles Grodin appears during the grand finale of the "Night of 100 Stars" benefit gala in New Yorks Radio City Music Hall on Feb. 15, 1982. Grodin, the offbeat actor and writer who scored as a newlywed cad in “The Heartbreak Kid” and the father in the “Beethoven” comedies, died Tuesday at his home in Wilton, Conn. from bone marrow cancer...