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'Renée Fleming Dons Hanna in Susan Stroman's 'Merry Widow' Production on PBS

With a revival of "Othello" already up and coming, The Metropolitan Opera presents the latest from Tony-award winning director and choreographer, Susan Stroman, with a new staging of the beloved "The Merry Widow." If that weren't enough, star soprano Renée Fleming takes on the character of Hanna.
  • 'Classicalite's Five Best: Made-Up Musicals

    'Glee' creator Ryan Murphy's purchase of the rights to 'Funny Girl,' now in a fictional revival on TV's 'Glee,' made us think about some of the great fictional musicals of the past.
  • 'The Column: Steven Berkoff in Harold Pinter's 'Birthday Party'...What Did William Friedkin Expect?

    Iconoclastic actor and director Steven Berkoff is in the news again. Let's face it, he has never been shy of standing up for his opinions in front of journalists (and nothing wrong with that), and now the Los Angeles Times carries his insistence that he quit the forthcoming (now delayed) production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. The show was to have opened this month at the Geffen Playhouse, also starring Tim Roth, but Berkoff, in the crucial role of the sinister Goldstein, has left, and the opening has been put back. William Friedkin, the show's director, says he was all but fired
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