Comic Group

Opera in bars and parks outdoes the big house shows
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 932 words; ...November (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's Rumpelstiltskin.) Two very different...putnew life into Jancek's problem opera. Comic Karen Cargill scintillated in Scottish...Directed by John Fulljames, The Opera Group's Benjamin and Birtwistle double-bill...

Saturday, January 2
AP Worldstream; 12/26/2009; 1110 words; ...quot; based on the "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip, closes on Broadway in New York after a run of 2,377...Popular Liberation Army, the third-largest Marxist guerrilla group in Colombia. 1994 - Zapatista rebels take over San Cristobal...

Twice the chipmunks, half the fun in 'Squeakquel'
AP Worldstream; 12/25/2009; 1092 words; ...Since there's a fair amount of time between these two bits of comic invention, young and old alike have ample opportunity to mull...Name your price, Mr. Murdoch. We'll form the Facebook group. "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,"...

PLAY REVIEW: 'Scientology' cast terrific, but material stretched thin
Evanston Review (IL); 12/24/2009; 723 words; ...theater credits playing school play actors. As an ensemble, the group is infectiously enthusiastic and engaging. Individually, everyone...most of the show is Jason Krause as L. Ron Hubbard. He's a comic wonderkid, singing, dancing and preaching the gospel of Dianetics...

Something to celebrate
The Independent - London; 12/24/2009; 965 words; ...mother and a television viewer.The final episode began with comic misdirection, Arvinder's voice issuing instructions to his...essential components of this counter-intuitive cultural moment - a group of Hollywood movies that essentially set out to make the filmgoer...