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A Streetcar Named Desire review – Gillian Anderson haunts in vital staging

Edit The Guardian 02 May 2016
4 / 5 stars. St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn. Benedict Andrews’ poignant new staging of Tennessee Williams’s play, imported from London, feels utterly contemporary. @ASoloski. Tennessee Williams’ play has travelled a rather more circular route in Benedict Andrews’ new staging, which is flashy, canny, poignant, and imported from the Young Vic to St Ann’s Warehouse ... Related ... This cues a tug-of-war for Stella’s sympathies ... ....

Nathan Adams gets first head coaching gig at Rossville Christian Academy

Edit The Examiner 02 May 2016
It didn’t take long for Nathan Adams to get his first high school head coaching assignment. Adams was the head middle school coach last season at Rossville Christian Academy and helped as a varsity assistant as well ... The Wolves finished the 2015 season with a 2-8 record and haven’t won more than four games since going 5-5 in 2006 ... Columbia, Westview, St. Benedict, Jefferson County, Howard, Sheffield, Jackson North side and Westwood....

A Streetcar Named Desire: EW stage review

Edit Entertainment Weekly 02 May 2016
For actresses in theater, Blanche DuBois is like a female version of Hamlet and Willy Loman and Uncle Vanya, all crammed together and going nuts together in a tiny, hot New Orleans apartment ... But what Gillian Anderson is doing at St ... Benedict Andrews’ daring production of Streetcar (carried over from its acclaimed 2014 staging at London’s Young Vic) is decidedly not a large-scale Broadway endeavor ... And cinematic, as well ... A ....

Dynamic instructor inspired students to learn, teach

Edit Pittsburgh Tribune Review 01 May 2016
Michael Benedict was a force of nature in his Fox Chapel High School English classroom. “He was so invested in actually teaching and actually transforming ... ....

A Darwinian ‘Streetcar’ With a Feminist Streak

Edit New York Times 01 May 2016
“A Streetcar Named Desire,” directed by Benedict Andrews, is a brave take on a classic play that envelops the audience in a timelessly primeval world ... ....

‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Theater Review: Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster Take a Trip to Dollywood

Edit IMDb 01 May 2016
Let’s begin with what made the Young Vic’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” directed by Benedict Andrews, noteworthy ... ....

Two new brunches in Dubai? Yes, please

Edit The National 01 May 2016
Diners are served a selection of starters and can choose one main option. Many of those mains include new brunch-only dishes such as crispy ocean trout sushi; eggs Benedict with veal ham; slow-baked salmon with truffle mashed potatoes; and roasted cod with crispy potato ... sjohnson@thenational.ae ....

Behind the Scenes: Building an audience for HD theater

Edit Herald Tribune 01 May 2016
Sarasota has had a hit and miss relationship with filmed theater productions shown in movie theaters ... An undated handout photo of Jonny Lee Miller, right, and Benedict Cumberbatch in "Frankenstein," part of the NT Live series from the National Theater in London ... But there is a growing inventory of digital productions with such stars as Helen Mirren, Benedict Cumberbatch, Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones among others ... Jay Handelman ... ....

Two iPhone devices, not two iPhones

Edit Indian Express 01 May 2016
Two iPhone devices, not iPhones, says Apple’s head of marketing Phil Schiller. Apple doesn’t want you to pluralise its products. So instead of saying two iPhones, or two iPads, the ideal Apple way to go with is ‘two iPhone devices, or two iPad devices.’ ... Apparently the debate over iPhones, sorry iPhone devices, started when Benedict Evans shared a podcast link with “iPads Pro,” in the caption ... ....

Malia Obama is taking a gap year. Should your high school grad?

Edit The Dallas Morning News 01 May 2016
The White House announced Sunday that the Obamas’ 17-year-old daughter, Malia, will be heading to Harvard University in the fall of 2017 after taking a gap year. And what does that mean, exactly? ... So much that there is a national association devoted to the gap year. Elite colleges like the idea ... Actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who studied arts at a London private school for boys, taught English in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal....

Puzzle Piece Theatre stages stirring revival of 'Agnes of God'

Edit The Examiner 01 May 2016
“Agnes of God,” a pun on the “Agnus Dei” or “Lamb of God” prayer in the Roman Catholic Mass, was controversial when it took Broadway by storm in 1982, and it has continued to ruffle feathers in subsequence performances ... The play is performed by three women in outrageously demanding roles ... Dr ... Indeed, Hall’s voice is convincingly angelic and fills the performance space with bits of the Latin mass, from introit to benediction ... ....

Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster Take a Trip to Dollywood

Edit The Wrap 01 May 2016
Let’s begin with what made the Young Vic’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” directed by Benedict Andrews, noteworthy. its revolving stage, designed by Magda Willi, with the audience seated in the round. That “Streetcar” crossed the Atlantic to open Sunday at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, and the concept is a near disaster ... Also Read. Tony Predictions ... Also Read ... George C ... Also Read....

Rob Sabau named as new St. Benedict basketball coach

Edit Commercial Appeal 30 Apr 2016
Rob Sabau played against St. Benedict in each of his seven years coaching the Millington Trojans. Now he'll have a chance to coach them. Sabau has been named the Eagles' boys basketball coach, replacing Steve Chandler, who resigned after one season ... "I think it's a great opportunity," he said ... St. Benedict is still in the market for a football coach following the resignation of Scott Samsel early this month ... ....
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