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Degrees Offered: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Minor Course Requirements: All students planning to major in dance are required to have a total of 124 credit hours for a Bachelor of Arts degree and 125 for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. A

Young Collierville singer aces U.S. Open performance - Memphis Commercial Appeal
Houston Middle seventh-grader Suraj Parthasarathy’s dream of making it big in the music industry got a major boost recently when he was chosen to sing for thousands of tennis fans at the U.S. Open in New York. In June, the 12-year-old from

Education Notes - Daily Breeze
Mike Greenwells presents a Haunted Hike on Oct. 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 and 28 through 31. Admission is $10. There will be a Safe Trick or Treat Friday on Oct. 30 from 5 to 8 p.m. Dress in costume and bring a Goody Bag. This is a fee event for

Arts Notes: Meet the Cast of ‘Harvey’ at All Saints - The Ledger
The cast list has been firmed up for the All Saints’ Academy Theater Department’s production of “Harvey” by Mary Chase. This Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy is the story of Vita Simmons, whose brother Elwood P. Dowd, spends all his time with his larger

Coastal Empire in brief - Savannah Morning News
At an organizational planning meeting Tuesday, city leaders, business officials and other key players agreed the city needed to take another look at having a cruise ship based in Savannah. The group will meet again in three weeks. “This has been

The Cooney Lumber Mill in Big Bone, Oregon (2004) is the setting for this peculiar look at office politics and female empowerment. A group of secretaries, under the guidance of the big boss’s strict assistant Susan, seem to be acting more like a cult

Flash in the Pan, Unkindest Cut - BackStage.com
I have a question that is too tough to ask of people in a position to hire me, so I beg for your help! I began my acting career with a bang at the age of 11. I was in a blockbuster hit that opened up a lot of opportunities for me. When college came

SAG will not seek to rep AFTRA thesps - Variety
The Screen Actors Guild has officially disavowed a controversial decision by its Hollywood board to explore the “acquisition” of actors repped through the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists. The guild had been ordered three weeks ago

Video: Acting Lessons With Gossip Girl s Sebastian Stan - Nymag.com
Gossip Girl ’s Sebastian Stan was a student at local acting school Applause NYC as a child, and he returned to the school to give a special class to its students. Our Tim Murphy was there to listen as Stan imparted his wisdom to the group of 8-year

Fiery Rosenberg exits - Variety
With his turbulent tenure as SAG president coming to an end, Alan Rosenberg isn’t offering any apologies for the past four years. “I would not change anything I’ve done,” Rosenberg told Daily Variety . “Maybe a few little things, but nothing major. I

I Love To Watch - New York Daily News
Chuck Liddell and Anna T. , who is quickly becoming one of my favorite pros, danced an intense tango that included some of Chuck’s ultimate fighting moves. Chuck’s super intense concentration face and overwhelming masculinity came in handy for the

A ‘comfortable’ Ellen Page rolls back into stardom with ‘Whip It’ - USA Today
TORONTO What a difference two years, and a shovel full of goat excrement, make. When Ellen Page was promoting her Oscar-nominated 2007 dramedy Juno , she was subdued, a little stilted and not exactly reveling in all the attention being lavished

REVIEW: Bettye Lavette Performs at the Sheldon Concert Hall Friday - Broadway World
If you look up the term “soul survivor” online, you might just stumble across a biography and picture of Bettye Lavette waiting for you to peruse since her career trajectory could lead to her being aptly labeled as such. Lavette started recording in

Vince Vaughn’s Script Success - Newsblaze.com
Vince Vaughn started writing scripts to get acting work. The ‘Couples Retreat’ actor says he is grateful for the number of rejections he has received throughout his career as it wouldn’t have made him consider writing screenplays as well as starring

ARLINGTON, Texas Cheer up, Tony Romo. Jake Delhomme knows exactly how it feels. Those frustrating interceptions. All the griping fans. The support of teammates that you hope is sincere. A body of work that shows turnovers are just part of the

Bad grades turned around with theater on the scene - Chicago Tribune
There’s a line in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” that sums up Samuel Vega’s story beautifully: “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” About four years ago, when Vega was a sophomore at Roberto Clemente High School, he was in honors classes

BCA plans outreach efforts, blog - Brown Daily Herald
The Brown Concert Agency plans to reach out to music lovers and musicians alike through a new blog, audience surveys and more student concerts, the group s leaders said. The board, which organizes Spring Weekend as well as a fall concert, hopes to

Review: ‘I Love a Piano’ offers great choices, great voices - Charleston Gazette
It’s hard to tell which tune the audience left the Clay Center singing from the Clay Center’s Broadway Series Opening show, “I Love a Piano.” There were so many great choices! The Sunday night crowd was enthusiastic — after all, Irving Berlin wrote

‘These heels are killing me!’ Eddie Izzard reaches the finish line after completing his 1,100mile run around the UK in support of Sport Relief Photo: PA On and on down the long, hard road he pounded. Sweat on his brow, blisters on his feet, a stroll

Raising the curtain for a new theater home - NWITimes.com
Actor Tim Gregory unveiled his theater company’s new South Loop space last weekend with a gala reception following the opening of their production of “Cotton Patch Gospel” and was understandably just a little nervous. “This is just like moving into a

Jennifer Lawrence: a fresh young face with an old soul - Los Angeles Times
Television audiences might know Jennifer Lawrence as a typical teenager in the TBS family comedy “The Bill Engvall Show.” But the 19-year-old is also amassing a reputation in indie film circles as an actress of power and nuance. She made her film

SAG will not seek to rep AFTRA thesps - Variety
The Screen Actors Guild has officially disavowed a controversial decision by its Hollywood board to explore the “acquisition” of actors repped through the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists. The guild had been ordered three weeks ago

Jennifer Aniston has revealed she used to clean toilets to make extra cash. The former Friends star - who now rakes in big bucks for her movies - told Parade magazine she wasn’t well off as a child so scrubbed people’s loos to boost her pocket money

Uma Thurman Tells Moms: Be Who You Are - Celebrity Baby Blog
They didn t ask for it, and they don t need to hear about it. Revealing that she ll never move from New York City we can t live anywhere else because my children s father lives here, she explains Uma admits that she s

‘Mr. George’ to leave library - Evening Sun
George Matthew never liked the idea that libraries are a place for quiet, reserved study. He never liked the idea that stories were just words on a page. So in his 12 years at Guthrie Memorial Library, the assistant director of youth services who’s

Fuck The Rich - Salon
from the rich. The top 1% have something like 40% of the wealth in America. It’s them or us. The 50 trillion has to be paid and you KNOW it’s going to come from the middle class if we don’t do something now. Why not billionaires? Celebrities and

Trevor D. Rhone, 69 - Washington Post
Trevor D. Rhone, 69, a leading Caribbean playwright and screenwriter who co-wrote the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” which helped introduce reggae music and urban Jamaican culture to international audiences, died Sept. 15 in a hospital in Kingston

La Grange native appearing on TV twice the same night - Arlington Heights Post
There’s a simple reason why Tricia O’Kelley didn’t start her acting career earlier in life. “It never dawned on me that I could make a living this way,” the Lyons Township High School graduate said. Click to enlarge image Tricia Kelly, Patrick J

UArts student’s Fringe work is a hit - Philadelphia Daily News
From the moment he entered the University of the Arts as a freshman, Jamison Foreman, now 21, had this in his head: By the time I graduate, I’ll have written a musical. “Yeah, yeah,” said his new school friends. We’ll believe it when we see it. When

Tour de force Hepburn show in Newtown - Danbury News-Times
Performances, unfortunately, do not always age as well as wine. Actors playing the same role night after night can fall into a routine that lulls once-exciting performances into an air of the mechanical. Luckily, more often than not, a performance

LeBron James is indeed going somewhere in 2010: Hollywood. James has agreed to star as himself in a major motion picture backed by industry heavyweights Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. The working title is “Fantasy Basketball Camp” and

Ray Barrett | Australian actor, 82 - Philadelphia Inquirer
His Sydney agent, Jane Cameron, said that Mr. Barrett died in a hospital after a fall at his home at Gold Coast city in Queensland state. Mr. Barrett’s last film role was as the character Ramsden in director Baz Luhrmann’s movie Australia , released

Eddie Izzard’s long and kinky road to the top - Daily Telegraph
‘These heels are killing me!’ Eddie Izzard reaches the finish line after completing his 1,100mile run around the UK in support of Sport Relief Photo: PA On and on down the long, hard road he pounded. Sweat on his brow, blisters on his feet, a stroll

Jennifer Lawrence: a fresh young face with an old soul - Los Angeles Times
Television audiences might know Jennifer Lawrence as a typical teenager in the TBS family comedy “The Bill Engvall Show.” But the 19-year-old is also amassing a reputation in indie film circles as an actress of power and nuance. She made her film

Raising the curtain for a new theater home - NWITimes.com
Actor Tim Gregory unveiled his theater company’s new South Loop space last weekend with a gala reception following the opening of their production of “Cotton Patch Gospel” and was understandably just a little nervous. “This is just like moving into a

Ray Barrett: Craggy-faced star of ‘Mogul’ and ‘The Troubleshooters’ - The Independent
When the Australian actor Ray Barrett joined the cast of Britain’s first hospital soap opera, Emergency Ward 10, he soon became known as “the actor with holes in his face”. The holes were pockmarks left by teenage acne, but they did nothing to

SAG will not seek to rep AFTRA thesps - Variety
The Screen Actors Guild has officially disavowed a controversial decision by its Hollywood board to explore the “acquisition” of actors repped through the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists. The guild had been ordered three weeks ago

Frank Dicopoulos was out walking on a New Jersey beach near his home one weekday morning not long ago, chatting with a reporter by cell phone. ”It’s strange,” he said. ”It’s very strange.” Strange because, for the first time in more than 20 years

Oprah hopes dark movie will shine light on abuse - Toronto Star
Oprah Winfrey didn’t cry while watching Precious , a film about a poor young black woman who rises above a lifetime of horrific physical and sexual abuse that is until the film’s postscript, which said “for Precious girls everywhere.” “That hit a

Gamer no thrill - Enter Stage Right
Okay, before we begin, allow me to confess to some bias here: I love Gerard Butler. I would pay to watch him eat cookies. And you all likely already know that I’m something of a sci fi geek. Put Gerard Butler into a science fiction film, and I’m in

Comic Kathleen Madigan will perform on Saturday at the Calvin Theatre - Union-News & Sunday Republican
Not surprisingly, comedian Kathleen Madigan says her upbringing in an Irish-American family of nine had a big effect on her comic ability. “I never thought my family was funny until my sister married this German guy, then I saw it,” she said in a

Readers remember ‘Akron Story,’ but history book is out of print - Akron Beacon Journal
Andrea Sanders, 60, of Peninsula, remembers bringing the text to life in a manner of speaking. As a 10-year-old in 1959, she joined 29 other Rankin Elementary pupils in a stage version of The Akron Story . Rankin teacher Doris Wells adapted the

Striking It Rich? - BackStage.com
The gains that resulted from the 2000 Screen Actors Guild commercials strike are black and white, and that translated into green. For the first time in decades, Commercials Contract dollars increased. Actors saw a rise in Class A money, a significant

Rhian: I won’t fall for somebody taken - The Journal Group Online
RHIAN Ramos admits she and Dingdong Dantes are still working on their chemistry for their new GMA7 show, “Stairway to Heaven.” Everyone knows that she s more identified with Richard Gutierrez. It s understandable since my first acting job was

The chulbuli actress of Wanted seems to be enjoying her career post marriage. Having Salman as her co-star in the movie, Ayesha Takia is really excited for its release. With the movie she carries a promise to carry on her acting work further

Australian actor Ray Barrett dies - Variety
Veteran Australian actor Ray Barrett, who became a star of British television in the 1960s, died Tuesday after a fall at his home at Gold Coast city in Queensland state. He was 82. Barrett s last film role was as the character Ramsden in director

Meisner acting method in downtown Frederick - Frederick News-Post
Ben Baldwin is more interested in the process of learning how to act than performances. After years of studying theater and, more specifically, the Meisner method, the actor is bringing his expertise to Frederick , where he moved in February. He’ll

‘Point Break’ sequel washed away - Jam! Showbiz
Point Break Indo was due to shoot in Australia and Indonesia without the stars of the 1991 original, and Lori Petty, who appeared in the cult film, isn’t surprised the film project has drowned without her, Patrick Swayze or Keanu Reeves. She tells

Australian actor Ray Barrett dies at 82 - WTOP Radio
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Veteran Australian actor Ray Barrett, who became a star of British television in the 1960s, has died, his agent said Wednesday. He was 82. Barrett’s last film role was as the character Ramsden in director Baz Luhrmann’s

Former Thunderbirds actor dies - Entertainment.uk.msn.com
Veteran Australian actor Ray Barrett, whose numerous UK TV roles included the voices of several Thunderbird puppets, has died at 82. Barrett’s last film role was as the character Ramsden in director Baz Luhrmann’s movie Australia, released last year

RHIAN Ramos admits she and Dingdong Dantes are still working on their chemistry for their new GMA7 show, “Stairway to Heaven.” Everyone knows that she s more identified with Richard Gutierrez. It s understandable since my first acting job was

Day jobs, night life: Artists juggle work with passion to perform - Salt Lake Tribune
Ah, the artist’s life. A day spent in leisure, in order to perform spirited original songs or create ground-breaking stage characters at night. That’s the dream of civilians, anyway. Working musicians and theater artists would explain the reality of

Pirates outfielder/first baseman Garrett Jones has become a candidate for the National League’s rookie of the year award. This time last year, the man now known as The Legend had one last swing, one last hope. He remained stuck for a fourth summer in

Basanez Leads Bears Past Browns In Preseason Finale - WSB-TV Atlanta
Chicago, IL — (Sports Network) - Brett Basanez threw for 144 yards and a touchdown on 10-of-13 attempts, leading Chicago over the Browns, 26-23, in the preseason finale for both clubs, as Cleveland failed to shed light on its apparent quarterback