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Jean Painlevé's short documentary about vampires and bats is a creative milestone in vampire history, examining the creature's foundations in nature.

Away from theatreland, Arbroath West End star Norman Bowman is celebrating life in a meaningful way May 15 2021, 9.00am There isn’t a theatre in the world that means as much to Norman Bowman as the Webster Memorial in Arbroath. Tonight he’ll be standing on its virtual stage from his home in Buckinghamshire, performing for the Webster Memorial Theatre’s Big Night In. With theatres completely dark since March of last year, the opportunity to sing online for his alma mater will take him back to the place where he first stood in front of an audience. “With this concert being the first ev...

Filmed in Jersey Before Hollywood, New Jersey film studios and back lots reeled out silent pictures. Mary Pickford starred in The New York Hat, filmed on location in 1912 in Fort Lee, NJ. Photo courtesy of Barrymore Film Center by Vince Farinaccio World Film Producing Studios in Fort Lee, NJ, with Director T. Hayes Hunter on the back lot. Photos courtesy of Barrymore Film Center This year’s Oscar contender Trial of the Chicago 7 may have been shut out of any Academy Awards last month, but its cinematic sleight-of-hand is probably not lost on North Jerseyans. That porti...

This man was born across from Lew Wallace By Karen Zach, Around the County Thursday, April 22, 2021 4:00 AM • • • “A laugh, that’s all there is to life!” was the motto of our subject this week and his constant goal from his first job in the theater was to make people laugh. Wow and what an amazing job he did with that! Born in our fair city, right across from Lew Wallace’s home, he noted: “not that it affects either of us.” He was the oldest child of three born to Julia (Peck) and William Hartman...

Austin 360 Muffled medical masking might seem antithetical to the performance of a play by William Shakespeare, who created whole worlds with spoken words. Yet a staging of the playwright's "Twelfth Night" outdoors on the St. Edward's University campus proved that this romantic comedy loses none of its charm, clarity or cleverness, even masked. After all, ancient Greek actors wore full facial masks, some outfitted with little megaphones. Two thousand years later, Italian commedia players donned half masks that emphasized of the durability of the form's stock characters. And many other perfo...