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Broadway: Terrence McNally’s ‘Mothers and Sons’ gentle, moving
NEW YORK — Terrence McNally’s new play opens with a woman of a certain age wearing a lush, black fur coat. It’s a provocatively politically incorrect garment — and a giveaway that what will come out of her mouth will be, too.
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Neil Patrick Harris accepts ‘Hasty Pudding’ award from Harvard drama troupe
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Neil Patrick Harris, dressed in a wig, lingerie and red heels, took the stage at Harvard University on Friday to accept the 2014 Man of the Year Award from America’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe.
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Ole Miss students, football team disrupt ‘Laramie Project’ play with gay slurs
OXFORD, Miss. — An audience consisting of mostly University of Mississippi students, including an estimated 20 Ole Miss football players, disrupted the University’s theater department production of “The Laramie Project” Tuesday night, heckling cast members and shouting anti-gay slurs.
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LGBT History Month profile: Playwright Edward Albee
Edward Albee is a celebrated playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes and three Tony Awards. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” his first Broadway play, helped establish Albee as one of America’s greatest playwrights.
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Fierstein plots return to Broadway with play about cross-dressing men
NEW YORK — Fresh off his success with “Kinky Boots,” Harvey Fierstein will be offering his first play in almost 30 years — and there’s plenty of kink.
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Composer, lyricist Stephen Sondheim receives lifetime achievement award
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim is being awarded one of the top honors in the arts world: the Edward MacDowell Medal for lifetime achievement.
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Neb. school official fired for performing in community play with gay themes
LINCOLN, Neb. — The superintendent of a Christian school in Lincoln says he lost his job because he performed in a community production of “The Producers,” a Broadway musical with gay characters, Nazi jokes, some coarse dialogue and racy lyrics.
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‘Kinky Boots,’ ‘Matilda the Musical’ front runners in tonight’s Tony Awards
NEW YORK — The Tony Awards will be a real drag this year: The two top musicals battling it out have leading men dressed as women and the night’s biggest celebrity will be Tom Hanks, who reminded everyone of his cross-dressing roots by teaming up in “Lucky Guy” with Peter Scolari, his “Bosom Buddies” co-star.
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Mass. performing arts school takes heat for gay biblical play
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. — The head of a western Massachusetts charter school says a student production of a play that retells the biblical story of Genesis with gay characters will go on as planned despite objections from some who say it’s offensive to Christians.
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LGBT History Month profile: Arthur Laurents, award-winning playwright
Arthur Laurents was a Tony Award-winning playwright, director and screenwriter. He wrote the scripts for “West Side Story,” “Gypsy” and “La Cage Aux Folles.”