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...public had been stunned when the suspects' identities were revealed. "When you actually see who did it," said the Rev. Jim Parker, whose church was destroyed, "it's like pulling the curtain back on the Wizard of Oz." Moseley, a student at Birmingham-Southern College, had formerly participated in missions where churches were built. He had been Student Government President and Vice President of the Honor Society in high school. Cloyd was studying to be a physician?s assistant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. DeBusk was a theater major on scholarship at Birmingham-Southern College. Said Connie Lawley...
...eight, before that midnight, before that nine. And my roommates will ask me why I did it. They definitely don’t get it. Sometimes I don’t understand it when things are behind or problems come up, as they always do. But when the curtain opens–that’s when it’s all worth it." Even though people may not applaud her specifically at the show’s premiere, what matters to Thompson is the personal satisfaction of practicing her art as well as she can. "That?...
...1970s, Western dance began to catch up. Rising companies like the American Ballet Theater, the San Francisco Ballet and the Royal Ballet of Winnipeg began producing challenging new works. The Bolshoi, meanwhile, under the longtime leadership of artistic director Yuri Grigorovich and ideologically locked behind the Iron Curtain, simply stopped updating its repertoire. By the time the cold war's walls started to fall...
...Finally, a sheer curtain with clever lighting suggested a liminal effect at the end of every scene, leaving the audience questioning whether they were still watching the performance or were back to the reality of the Wang Auditorium—just as Shakespeare’s characters question the reality of their own experience in the play...
...evening last week a few moments before curtain call, Mahdi and the other actors lounged backstage while an actress with platinum blonde hair and a heavy application of kohl-eyeliner berated a stagehand in the timeless manner of prima donnas the world over. But any sense of show business as usual ended when one of the theater managers came by to collect passports and identity documents. The Syrian government is in the process of tightening its generous residency laws for Iraqi refugees, and the fear of deportation looms larger over the cast than a newspaper critic with a grudge...