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...Hollywood’s Golden Age and its decline. In a culture where the public is inundated with the 24-hour news cycle, paparazzi pulp, and celebrity gossip, an author is going to be hard pressed to capture an audience already exhausted with the idea of the tell-all tale, even if he is trying to lampoon...
...Cracks,” a dark little tale directed by Jordan Scott (daughter of director Ridley Scott) and set in a girls’ boarding school in the English countryside, all is outwardly beautiful. And how! Lips in the film, which are usually pouting and receiving of loving close-ups, are deepest crimson; as sensuously undulate as the verdant hills in the background. The water in which the girls take their diving lessons is always sparkling, set in such a contrast to the gray stone of the school that it makes the harmony of colors sing. Everything is shot with...
Every year for the past 14 years, the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater revives a portion of every undergraduate’s childhood by putting on a performance of “The Ugly Duckling,” a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. The performances run all through the weekend of Arts First...
...these storylines converge in legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim and writer James Lapine’s Tony-Award winning musical comedy “Into the Woods.” The work explores the aforementioned characters’ lives and the struggles they face in the fairy-tale world they live in. But the twist is that in this adaptation, the characters don’t necessarily live happily ever after, but have to face the consequences of fulfilling their desires...
...would probably be “A Winter’s Tale...