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All aboard for Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
It takes an ensemble to run a train like the Orient Express. And it takes an ensemble to bring “Murder on the Orient Express” to the stage.
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Revolutionary reel
“Eisenstein not only laid the theoretical foundation for much of 20th-century modernist cinema, but in 1925 made one of cinema’s great classics, applying dialectics to montage, composition and meaning,” director Michael Mann is quoted as saying.
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Behind the Fringe Curtain: All hands on deck as festival nears
The Fringe Festival’s need for volunteers is almost as urgent as its need to get people’s bums in theatre seats.
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Behind the Fringe Curtain: Get creative, or die trying
When it comes to writing a play for the Fringe Festival, the rules change exponentially: Write, direct, stage manage, produce, and do the tech if you’re not actually on stage performing.
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Behind the Fringe Curtain: A look into how the theatre festival is put together
The Hamilton Fringe Festival is no numbers game. At the Fringe, pick three random plays and you’ll walk away with something.
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My wife and I have a morning ritual where magic happens: We read aloud to each other
The physical act of sitting down in the same place around the same time daily to do the same thing — i.e., establishing a routine — is, like the act of love, a mode of communication.
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A Palestinian state is possible but requires Arab countries as partners
A Palestinian state remains possible, but only if the regional Arab countries are partners in the process of its creation.
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A fun Hamilton food challenge with the grandkids
A summer, eat-outside contest to see what was the best — first it was ice cream, then pizza.
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Trip home to the U.S. a painful reminder of lessons too quickly forgotten
In the United States sometimes it feels like the right hand doesn’t and can’t see what the left hand is doing.
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As a kid I couldn’t trust the adults entrusted to guide me
(Toronto Star, Nov. 3, 2017) I was among the youngest kids in Grade 6 in my school in western Massachusetts, so when my friends who’d turned 11 over the summer left Cubs for Boy Scouts, I felt left behind. I remember friends talking animatedly about a camping trip in early September. I desperately wanted to…
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The wind, the sand, yourself
Tiny grains sweep over the sand, pushed forward by an invisible force …
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The key to Cairo with children is the food
The Egyptian capital, captivating now as Revolution Central, does not want for culinary interest.
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Poilhes, France: It takes a village
Cityfolk might think Poilhes has been forgotten. Rather, it is a place to escape to.
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Immerse yourself in Georgia
When my family and I visited Georgia in January, it had been 12 years since our last visit.
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Springsteen giving voice to the spirit of giving
Bruce Springsteen was named the MusiCares Person of the Year in 2013.
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In the rubble of Haiti
Perhaps we will never know the true death toll in Haiti.
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Every grain of rice comes from God
I always ask about his family, even though I’ve never met them. And he always asks after mine.
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Abu Dhabi stories from MarketWatch
None of this would have been possible without the backs of labourers.
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Emails from Abu Dhabi
A sampling of essays I wrote to friends and family back home early in my life/work in the U.A.E.
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The Boss of me
The song was “Born to Run” and although I have heard it 500 or 1,000 times since then, I cannot and will not forget the first time I heard it.
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I did it my way
A Sinatra fan par excellence …
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Walking Lessons
Trying to absorb two blows that befell his family, a writer struggles to comprehend the wonder of the apparently simple act of putting one foot in front of the other.
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