Stories tagged "theater and dance"

Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter remembered

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji
Guest: Ben Brantley
Thursday, December 25 2008

One of the most formidable talents of 20th century theater, Harold Pinter is dead at age 78 from liver cancer. The author of the ground-breaking plays The Birthday Party, The Homecoming and The Caretaker, his work inspired the word "Pinteresque" as an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. Ben Brantley from The New York Times joins The Takeaway to discuss the poet, playwright and political activist.

"You can't go out of a Pinter play without feeling that it's infected your bloodstream like a virus."
— Ben Brantley, chief theater critic at The New York Times

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Video: Frenzied "Chicago footworking" fuses juke and house moves with breakdance, tap dance and Riverdance

By Jennifer Hsu, Corey Takahashi
Saturday, August 16 2008

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The Takeaway goes Broadway for the 2008 Tony Awards

By John Hockenberry, Adaora Udoji, Leo Duran
Friday, June 13 2008

The Tony winners will be announced this Sunday, and one of the big prizes is Best New Musical. There are two front runners, "In the Heights" and "Passing Strange." They don’t sound like your grandparents’ musicals, either, because they’re shows that mix genres such as hip-hop and rock. John and Adaora talk to Jack Grace about the race and why the creator of one of the productions says he shouldn’t win.

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