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Let's look on the bright side: The spectacle of ireful Donald Trump supporters disrupting Shakespeare in the Park's production of "Julius Caesar" and the subsequent tweetstorm of abuse directed at any company with Shakespeare in its name prove that plays retain the power to shock and enrage. Who said the theater is all anodyne, feel-good musicals? I didn't see the production that turned Julius Caesar into a Donald Trump look-alike, so I can't comment on the accuracy of the impersonation or the violence against the president that some people believe it meant to incite.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host special post-show conversations with notable guest panelists during the run of John Strand's critically-acclaimed political drama The Originalist , based on the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The play, which stars four-time Helen Hayes Award winner and acclaimed D.C. actor Edward Gero as Justice Scalia and is under the direction of Artistic Director Molly Smith, runs July 7-30, 2017 in the Kreeger Theater.
As Bill O'Reilly sees it, the same forces that led to his ouster at Fox News are out to get President Trump. And, in much the same spirit as Trump, O'Reilly is determined to settle the score.
On Friday, President Trump loved them back, enacting a tougher policy toward Cuba as he basked in celebratory cheers that recalled his campaign rallies. Casting it as a "great day" for the people of the communist island of Cuba, Trump powered into Miami and announced a sweeping change in diplomatic relations intended to rebuke his predecessor's executive changes and spur commerce and personal freedoms.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is scheduled to go to Capitol Hill on Thursday morning to defend draconian cuts to his agency's budget and climate programs. I will be checking my ears for burns.
In this May 21, 2017, file photo provided by The Public Theater, Tina Benko, left, portrays Melania Trump in the role of Caesar's wife, Calpurnia, and Gregg Henry, center left, portrays President Donald Trump in the role of Julius Caesar during a dress rehearsal of The Public Theater's Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Julius Caesar in New York. Teagle F. Bougere, center right, plays as Casca, and Elizabeth Marvel, right, as Marc Anthony.
"Hamilton" is still the hottest ticket in town, but demand for the much-coveted seats have dropped among one sector: Republican pols. Interest from the right side of the aisle started to sag after Vice President Mike Pence's much discussed visit to the red-hot Broadway hit , Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis told us at the Public's annual gala at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
JANUARY 22: U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with James Comey during an Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON - In the annals of political theater, there may be little precedent for James Comey's scheduled appearance before a Senate committee Thursday.
Trump and first lady Melania Trump are hosting a Sunday night fundraiser for Ford's Theater, the venue where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. It's easy to dismiss Trumps Twitter ramblings as just that, but when you read them in the format of a White House press release, they sound way more serious, yet simultaneously more ridiculous.
JANUARY 22: U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with James Comey during an Inaugural Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders Reception in the Blue Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. WASHINGTON - In the annals of political theater, there may be little precedent for James Comey's scheduled appearance before a Senate committee Thursday.
Budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks to the media about President Trump's proposed budget May 23. Tuesday morning, during a White House conference on President Trump's proposed 2018 federal budget , Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney invoked a musical that, seven years ago, won a government grant worth nearly $700,000. When asked if the administration considered climate change programs to be taxpayer waste, Mulvaney replied, "The National Science Foundation last year used your taxpayer money to fund a climate change musical.
A Black Lives Matter member speaks during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on November 12, 2016. The day before the People's Climate March in Washington, DC, Preyton Lambert-skinny, dreadlocked and sporting black-frame glasses-was getting hustled on a boulevard near the National Mall.
In this Monday, April 3 photo, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi listens during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Egypts president answers complaints and woes on TV in a savvy form of political theater, putting himself before the public in a way none of his predecessors ever did.
Liberals are now outraged that President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. There is a growing chorus from the Left that a special prosecutor should takeover the investigation into whether the Trump campaign has colluded with Russian intelligence during the 2016 election.
With just six days until a French presidential vote that could defin... . French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen arrives at her meeting, Monday May 1, 2017, in Villepinte, outside Paris.
Editor: My, oh my, it sure seems as if the dark storm clouds that have settled over the board of education are not soon to be blown out to sea. Reporter Patty, aka BDL, Leon's, relentless digging for the truth is continuing to bring questions to the minds of many Liberty County taxpayers.
Yonn Doung rehearses for Cornerstone Theatre's "Crossings, Journeys of Catholic Immigrants" in 2002 - a group that survives, in part, from NEA grants. Yonn Doung rehearses for Cornerstone Theatre's "Crossings, Journeys of Catholic Immigrants" in 2002 - a group that survives, in part, from NEA grants.
However, the committee has also received statements in support of Gorsuch from both a male former student, Will Hauptman, and a group of 11 women who formerly served as legal clerks for the Supreme Court nominee. Judge Gorsuch outlined how law firms, and companies in general, had to ask female interviewees about pregnancy plans in order to protect the company.
The Henagar Drive-In Theatre's Facebook post generated hundreds of comments both supporting and opposing the theatre's stance. Movies scheduled prior to that date and four weeks after this date were not scheduled by the new owners.
Octavio Solis's Lydia is a benevolent fortune-teller story set in 1970s El Paso. Lydia , the soothsaying stranger, is an immigrant from Mexico who works as a live-in maid for the Flores family.