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The Ides of march in literature
Ides of March
March 15, 2012
ORIGINAL MEANING OF “IDES OF MARCH”Ides, from the Latin word “Idus” meaning “half division” was originally used...
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Our Town lives in Santa Monica
Our Town
January 21, 2012
There must be at least half a dozen people in L.A. who have never seen Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town. If you are one of them, you...
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Thornton Wilder's eighty-year-old novel still relevant today
Book Review
June 16, 2011
With the recent torandoes that caused damage across the south, and Hurricane Katrina still lingering in our memories it isn't hard to...
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Carpe diem: Our Town explores the meaning of life
theatre
April 2, 2011
Now on stage at the Smith Theatre at Oakland Community College Orchard Ridge is the winner of the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Our Town. This...
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From the archives: Hypocrites Theatre's staging of Our town
Hypocrites Theatre
January 14, 2011
This review was originally published in 2009 in the Windy City Times. David Cromer has a profound, unusually acute understanding of the aching,...
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Richmond Memorial Library movie reviews: 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' (2004)
Education & Schools
October 24, 2009
From the Pulitzer-winning novel by Thornton Wilder comes writer-director Mary McGuckian’s adaptation of ‘The Bridge of San Luis Rey...
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Batavia Players to take on Thornton Wilder at Batavia High School
Education & Schools
September 12, 2009
Things are about to get a whole lot WILDER at Batavia High School—and English teacher Matt Mayne is seeing to it!Mayne, who teaches at...
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