The Arkansas Shakespeare Festival returns to UCA.
Werner Trieschmann
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‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’
The Rep’s new jukebox musical lets very little stand in the way of 30-plus songs of Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller.
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Jukebox redux
The Rep stages the popular Leiber-Stoller musical ‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe.’
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Mullet madness
“MacGruber,” a big budget comedy based on a SNL spoof, might not be a franchise but there’ll be many worse parading by on the big screen this summer.
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Face off
“Frost/Nixon” arrives at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre a good 36 years after the resignation of President Richard Nixon, the pardon of Nixon by successor Gerald Ford and the subsequent high profile interview of Nixon by TV personality David Frost.
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Spring slate
The fall season for Arkansas theater was dominated by crowd pleasers. The spring and summer of 2010 isn’t as predictable — oh sure, there will be a few known commodities on the schedule – -and that makes for a more interesting time all the way around for theater fiends.
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Between talent and desire
New York heiress Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) believed she could sing. She compared herself to the opera greats of her time and dismissed the laughter of crowds who gathered to hear her as “professional jealousy.”
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Spring slate
The fall season for Arkansas theater was dominated by crowd pleasers: lots of big cast musicals with recognizable titles. The spring and summer of 2010 isn’t as predictable, which makes for a more interesting time all the way around for theater fiends.
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Rep masters tricky ‘Cat’
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is one of Tennessee Williams’ acknowledged masterpieces, yet it is a large, unwieldy play that the playwright openly struggled with. It is a misshapen, oddly repetitive piece and yet it comes across as Shakespearean in reach and scope.
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‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’
The Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” opens with an approximation of a magic trick and that feels appropriate in more ways than one.