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...bedrooms, kitchens, showrooms and highways. The actors sleep in vertical beds and, when one stands up, he is horizontal to the stage. Characters split into identical versions of themselves, some carrying on with life while one of them comments wryly. It is, no doubt, a physically grueling play to perform, and the Japanese actors are overdue for home leave. For now, no performances are scheduled after the Ann Arbor run, but Complicite officials say the show will definitely appear again. Considering the difficulty of making Murakami make sense onstage and McBurney's dazzling success at it, this Elephant is unlikely...
...permanently adding soldiers. They are breaking the Army into smaller, more potent units, pulling calcified forces out of cold-war strongholds like Western Europe and South Korea, and shifting military policing and other nation-building skills from the reserves to the active-duty force. They're hiring contractors to perform many of the noncombat missions now being done by soldiers, so that those troops can put their fingers on triggers instead of keyboards. The goal is to streamline the military's cumbersome, costly bureaucracy. In Friday's debate, Bush summed up the rationale for his reform push...
...time Foxx won a piano scholarship to United States International University in San Diego, he had figured out how to convert his confidence and pain into fearlessness and ambition. At a Los Angeles comedy club in 1989, his then girlfriend urged him to grab the open mic and perform (though it's hard to imagine he needed much persuading). "I went on as Cosby, Cosby the gangster," Foxx recalls, slipping instantly into long, uncoiled Bill Cosby sentences punctuated with profanity. "I did Tyson. I did Reagan. When I got on that stage I felt like all the elements were finally...
Nissinen and his company perform a mix of classical, neoclassical and contemporary works in order to appeal to and simultaneously challenge a broader audience. This season’s slate of performances clearly manifests that goal: neoclassical programs make up the fall, followed by an updated version of The Nutcracker, August Bournonville’s romantic La Sylphide, an all-contemporary program in March, and finally The Sleeping Beauty...
Technical difficulties delayed the show’s opening night, but no one seemed to mind, probably because the audience consisted mainly of friends of the far-flung performers. Students of Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, and a number of other colleges traveled for hours to perform in the show...