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How to overcome writing a humdrum Act Two

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Michael Healey is a funny guy. His writing is clever, quick, and you can't help but laugh out loud at his jabs at politics, public figures, and corporations.

The play shows two tramps waiting endlessly for someone who never arrives. The 1953 drama was voted the most significant play of the century, but what is it all about?

Students in drama arts need to have a basic understanding of the story arc of a play before being able to critique any story. A simple drama activity serves to inform.

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Michel Tremblay has always had a knack for stirring the pot. His plays, most of them based on his upbringing in Montreal and his own family, have graced stages worldwide.

In contemporary sales themed theatre classic, Zadies Shoe's star swaps swearwords with real-estate sharks Eric Peterson, Peter Donaldson and Albert Schultz.

Writers often use the principles of myth to create dramatic, entertaining and psychologically resonating stories.

Mozart and Salieri, Opus 48, a Russian opera by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. "Mozart and Salieri" opera plot summary, character list, and other opera information.

Norm Foster has been dubbed "Canada's most produced playwright" and it's really hard to understand why.

Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo's The Godfather effectively uses structure and external events to convey internal truths and build character-audience intimacy.

Seven years in the making, Jason Robert Brown's Songs For A New World has returned to the stage in Toronto, and it's about time.

Don Hahn's book The Alchemy of Animation: Making an Animated Film in the Modern Age is a walk through the process of making a Disney animated movie. 8/10.

It's hard not to love Evil Dead: The Musical. What started out as a Fringe Festival Show in Toronto has made the leap to Off-Broadway, and now it's arrived in Vancouver.

A divided court had invalidated crucial New Deal legislation in 1935 and 1936. Determined to save future legislation, FDR embarked on a plan to increase court membership.

Stray cats, raccoons and a lot of angst highlight this production of Grey Gardens in Addison, Texas - the first local theater to present this curious period piece

Players of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will be able to get more out of the game once they learn about the unlockables.

The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: plot summary, character list, and other Mozart opera information.

Plot is one of the structural components of a novel, and revision should make it well-constructed and seamless before the writer moves on to line-editing.

Not Another Musical Co-Op, the people who brought The World Goes 'Round last summer to packed houses and rave reviews are back a year later with Songs for a New World.

Though Hugh Jackman is excellent in the role he's become an icon for, the Wolverine script isn't up to the par of the fine performances by Jackman and Liev Schreiber.

Review of Festival Ballet Providence's November 2007 "Up CLOSE on HOPE" program

M. Butterfly is a play rich with layers of meaning that attempt to deconstruct fixed perceptions about gender, race and sexuality.

When the Federal Reserve Bank buys a $10,000 US Treasury note, or any acceptable asset of that amount from a member bank, it can set off a ten-fold jump in money supply.

Five years on from the five-million-selling 'American Idiot', Green Day return with their latest offering, '21st Century Breakdown'.

Blake Snyder discusses what makes a great story using his 15 Point Beat Sheet.

Theodore White's December 1963 essay, based on an interview with Jacqueline Kennedy, established the analogy of King Arthur and Camelot with John Kennedy's presidency.

More than any other Shakespeare play, Hamlet is packed with doubles of all kinds. These duplicates (and triplicates) affect theme, mood, character, and everything else.

Despite what many may believe, Shakespeare wrote more than just brooding drama. He wrote popular theatre, full of jokes, violence, sexual innuendo, and plenty of crass.

The characters of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone are able to find themselves through the saving power of song.

Don Carlo (Don Carlos), a French and Italian opera drama by Giuseppe Verdi: opera plot summary, character list, and other Verdi opera information.

Jackson and Ricci excel in a strange but ultimately tender story that is far less exploitative than it would seem.

What better place to honour Fanny Kemble than Stratford's Studio Theatre where Peter Hinton staged his 19th century epic trilogy - The Swanne.

Naseeruddin Shah, a contender for India's Best Actor crown, leads a superlative ensemble in Raja Menon's critically acclaimed kidnapping caper.