http://www.curtainx.com Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:21:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The Producers" became the toast of Broadway upon its 2001 opening thanks largely to Mel Brooks' approach of offend-everyone humor. In this case, the yucks were drawn from over-the-top accents, exaggerated caricatures of show-biz types, neo-Nazis and homosexuals, and a sendup (albeit loving one) of the theater world itself. It's quite ... http://www.curtainx.com/shower-curtain/curtain-calls-ode-to-broadway.html A Russian court has decided not to ban reporters from the trial of three men accused in the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya - paving the way for an open trial where details of the much-criticised investigation will be made public. Politkovskaya, who was slain in her Moscow apartment building in ... http://www.curtainx.com/kitchen-curtain/iron-curtain-parted-for-high-profile-murder-trial.html THEATRE bosses are preparing a multi-million pound plan to give Liverpool’s historic Royal Court a new lease of life. They hope to upgrade, conserve and restore the 70-year-old art deco landmark to create an improved “cultural resource” in the heart of the city as a legacy of Capital of Culture year. Fifty ... http://www.curtainx.com/curtain-rods/curtain-rises-on-a-royal-court-dream.html Exeter, New Hampshire is home to one of New England's oldest movie houses. The Ioka Theater has been a downtown fixture for nine decades, but is set to close on Christmas Eve the victim of updated building codes and increased costs. "There were people dressed up as Klansmen, riding through the ... http://www.curtainx.com/country-curtain/final-curtain-call-for-beloved-nh-theater.html Brownsboro High School's theater department is ready to showcase a high-energy musical number for the Brownsboro Independent School District community. The musical is called Once Upon a Mattress, a comic and offbeat retelling of The Princess and the Pea. Theater Director David Young said the musical is about a prince, the ... http://www.curtainx.com/shower-curtain/final-curtain-players-to-open-with-a-musical.html The taps have run dry at the Westside Concert Theatre, whose two owners say city zoning and municipal red tape may cost them their business. Loren Lieberman and his partner, Colin Lapsley, bought 434 King St. W. in the fall of 2005 and turned it into an entertainment centre. But a zoning ... http://www.curtainx.com/curtain-rods/curtain-may-fall-on-dry-theatre.html Here's a story for our time. A wayward prairie kid from a small Canadian town learns everything there is to know about a rare and difficult art form -- and then he makes it truly his own. No one in the world does what the Canadian does. The world finds ... http://www.curtainx.com/country-curtain/conservative-cuts-bring-curtain-down-on-artists.html Ormsby was joined by countrymen Matthew Millar and Michael Curtain among the 32 players who clinched cards after the final six-round examination at PGA Golf de Catalunya in Girona, Spain. Ormsby, a tour regular, shot a final round 68 to finish at 17-under 413, four strokes behind Swedish winner Oskar Henningson ... http://www.curtainx.com/curtain-rods/wade-ormsby-gets-his-european-card.html For 28 Milton seniors it was a night they would like to forget, but it was part of a season many won’t. In their season finale Thursday, Milton fell to the Pine Forest Eagles 48-0. But while the game was one sided, the Panthers had a hard time holding onto the football. “They ... http://www.curtainx.com/kitchen-curtain/curtain-falls-on-panthers.html There are nine works in the Curtain Up 2008 dance celebration, all by local independent choreographers, some making their debuts at Curtain Up, some returning. This is the event's 19th year, and "in retrospect," says Arts and Culture Authority dance department head Nili Cohen, "the aim of Curtain Up has been ... http://www.curtainx.com/shower-curtain/curtain-up-offering-9-works-this-year.html