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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Theater</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/theater/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:06:52 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Bea Arthur</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bea-arthur/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bea-arthur/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:40:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=10689</guid> <description><![CDATA[[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3VbSfQ3nAM[/youtube] Beatrice Arthur, the witty television star in the hit shows Maude and The Golden Girls, and a Tony winner, died today at her Los Angeles home. Arthur, who was suffering from cancer, was 86. Born Bernice Frankel on May 16, 1922, (1923 according to some sources) in New York City, Arthur &#8212; generally known as Bea Arthur &#8212; first caught critics' attention with her [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/bea-arthur/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jane Fonda&#039;s Broadway Comeback</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jane-fonda-broadway-comeback/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jane-fonda-broadway-comeback/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:33:06 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=8836</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the New York Times, Ben Brantley reviews Jane Fonda's return to Broadway after 46 years: &#34;It’s a fine line between brittle and breakable. Jane Fonda blurs that distinction to memorable effect in 33 Variations, the new drama written and directed by Moisés Kaufman that opened on Monday night at the Eugene O’Neill Theater. Playing a sharp-witted, terminally ill musicologist confronting the betrayal of her [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jane-fonda-broadway-comeback/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Japanese Magic Lantern Show at the Academy</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/theater/japanese-magic-lantern-show-academy/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/theater/japanese-magic-lantern-show-academy/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:41:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2742</guid> <description><![CDATA[In addition to a screening of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have another East Asian cinematic event in the upcoming weeks: an evening dedicated to the Japanese magic lantern tradition of Utsushi-e, described as &#34;a blend of moving images, light, color, music, storytelling and traditional art.&#34; Presented by the Academy's Science and Technology Council, the Minwa-za Company [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/theater/japanese-magic-lantern-show-academy/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN to Become an Opera</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/brokeback-mountain-to-become-an-opera/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/brokeback-mountain-to-become-an-opera/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:51:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=2728</guid> <description><![CDATA[Variety reports that the New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx's short story &#34;Brokeback Mountain,&#34; the source of Ang Lee's acclaimed 2005 film. Brokeback Mountain &#8212; the movie &#8212; caused a sensation in 2005. The story of a two-decade-long love affair between a ranch hand (Heath Ledger) and a cowboy (Jake Gyllenhaal), Brokeback Mountain won the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/brokeback-mountain-to-become-an-opera/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Paul Scofield</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/paul-scofield/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/paul-scofield/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:27:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/paul-scofield/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Benedict Nightingale's &#34;Paul Scofield: an overlooked acting great&#34; in The [London] Times: &#34;Why didn't most theatregoers think of Paul Scofield in the way they thought of Olivier, Gielgud and Richardson? After all, he had pretty well all the qualities, from Olivier's danger through Gielgud's grace to Richardson's soul, that we admired in the 20th century's most renowned triumvirate. &#34;Indeed, Richard Eyre, who directed him as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/paul-scofield/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Edward Albee Interviewed</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/screenwriters/edward-albee-interviewed/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/screenwriters/edward-albee-interviewed/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:23:19 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/authors-writers/edward-albee-interviewed/</guid> <description><![CDATA[The New York Post is one of the vilest rags around, but Michael Riedel's March 12 column on Edward Albee, who's turning 80 today, is well worth checking out. A couple of Albee quotes, remembering his lover of 35 years, artist Jonathan Thomas, who died of cancer in 2005. &#34;I learned something important about dying, about a slow death, as Jonathan's was. What I learned [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/screenwriters/edward-albee-interviewed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Amy Adams&#039; Print Powder Puff</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/amy-adams-print-powder-puff/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/amy-adams-print-powder-puff/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:55:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/amy-adams-print-powder-puff/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Donna Freydkin's &#34;Rising star Amy Adams' career seems enchanted&#34; in USA Today: &#34;Amy Adams [right, with Jack Davenport in The Wedding Date (2005)] is having one of those enchanted Manhattan moments. &#34;'Look, it's snowing!' she cries, looking out of the window of an Upper West Side cafe to the snowflakes gently settling on the cabs and buildings outside. 'It's sticking!' &#34;Adams has an ability to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/amy-adams-print-powder-puff/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Robert Goulet</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/robert-goulet/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/robert-goulet/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:17:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/robert-goulet/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Actor-singer Robert Goulet died Tuesday (Oct. 30) morning while waiting for a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Goulet had been suffering from interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, reportedly a rare lung disease. He was 73. Born on Nov. 26, 1933, in Lawrence, Mass., Goulet spent much of his youth in Canada. He became a stage star in 1960, after playing Sir Lancelot in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/robert-goulet/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Harold Pinter&#039;s Nobel Prize Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/harold-pinter-nobel-prize-speech/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/harold-pinter-nobel-prize-speech/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:53:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=207</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them,&#34; said British playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter, 75, during his Literature Nobel Prize acceptance speech on Wed., Dec. 7. &#34;You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/harold-pinter-nobel-prize-speech/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Christopher Fry</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/screenwriters/christopher-fry/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/screenwriters/christopher-fry/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:44:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16</guid> <description><![CDATA[Author Christopher Fry has died. Christopher Fry (1907-2005), was the author of The Lady's Not for Burning, Venus Observed, and wrote (solo or drafts) the screenplays for Barabbas (1962), Ben-Hur (1959), The Bible (1966), The Beggar's Opera (1953), and A Queen Is Crowned (1953).]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/screenwriters/christopher-fry/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Margaretta Scott</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/margaretta-scott/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/margaretta-scott/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:09:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/margaretta-scott/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Actress Margaretta Scott died last April 15. She was 93. Although the London-born actress (on Feb. 13, 1912) is best remembered for her role as Mrs. Pumphrey in the television series All Creatures Great and Small, Scott had what Michael Coveney in The Guardian described as a "distinguished career [that] spanned 70 years of theatre and film and, as the last surviving signatory of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/margaretta-scott/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
