Opening the Curtain

By KCRW

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Opening the Curtain episodes:

October 04, 2011 The Responsibility of Image
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September 27, 2011 Where Are the Hollywood Clowns?
Let's start with what works in Cirque du Soleil's $100 million spectacle Iris at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood...
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September 20, 2011 Morally Bankrupt and Vacuous...but Funny
It's late. We're a couple of bottles of rose into a dinner at Ella and Peter's beautiful woodsy place outside of the city - no, not Los Angeles, New York...
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September 13, 2011 The SITI Company's Questions
Trojan Women, written by Euripedes 2,400 years ago, is one of the most brutal, unrelenting anti-war plays ever created. The play takes place among the wreckage of Troy...
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August 30, 2011 Ideas in Need of Passion
What is love? Really? Is it a rush of the heartbeat? Is it the dedication to a child? These are the questions in Mr. Goodspeed's AP Biology class in...
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August 23, 2011 The Magic of Intimate Theater
There's an experience you can only have in an intimate theater...There's an energy that's possible that is absolutely exhilarating...and at times horribly uncomfortable...
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August 09, 2011 A Dark Night of the Soul
Sarah Kane's play 4.48 Psychosis can be read as the internal monologue of a woman as she descends into psychosis and plans her suicide...
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August 02, 2011 An All Too Pretty Labyrinth
The center of the Minotaur's mythical labyrinth is not necessarily a place you want to find yourself. But I did recently - and it was stunning...
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July 26, 2011 Healthcare and Humanity
Longtime Angelenos will remember Anna Deavere Smith's brilliant and haunting play called Twilight: Los Angeles about the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. She's back...
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July 19, 2011 An All Too Clever Hamlet
Somewhere scrawled on a blackboard in a Shakespeare seminar is that perennial essay question "chart Hamlet's journey through his four soliloquies." Like "to be or not to be..."
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FAQs about Opening the Curtain:

How many episodes does Opening the Curtain have?

The podcast currently has 462 episodes available.