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18 hours ago · Paul Reubens ( ⫽ ˈruːbənz ⫽; né Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952 – July 30, 2023) was an American actor and comedian, widely known for creating and portraying the character Pee-wee Herman . Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe the Groundlings in the 1970s, and started his career as an improvisational comedian and stage actor.
1 day ago · Groups that had found themselves represented by others onstage discovered new opportunities for creative expression in the playhouse.Over the past twenty-five years, theater scholars have shifted away from a narrative of “firsts” and national exceptionalism toward a more nuanced series of intertwined histories that illuminate the complex discourses of national and ethnic identity in American culture.
1 day ago · The playhouse’s historic stage will feel alive with a sizzling Martin Crimp adaptation of one of the greatest plays of all time, “Cyrano de Bergerac”; a fresh new revival of Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award winner for best musical, “La Cage aux Folles”; and a new production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning classic “Topdog/Underdog” — one of the best new American plays written in the last 25 years, as Feldman asserts.
2 days ago · Recovering the joy and accessibility of Elizabethan theatre at the Blackfriars Playhouse - the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre.
1 day ago · San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post St., S.F. 415-677-9596. www.sfplayhouse.org. Reach Lily Janiak: ljaniak@sfchronicle.com. Lily Janiak joined the San Francisco Chronicle as theater critic in May 2016. Previously, her writing appeared in Theatre Bay Area, American Theatre, SF Weekly, the Village Voice and HowlRound.
1 day ago · 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
3 days ago · American animated television series. For animated shows produced by entities that have since been re-organized, their former names are listed in brackets. All channels listed are American unless otherwise noted.
