Romney to draw contrast with Obama on foreign policy

Romney to draw contrast with Obama on foreign policy

LEXINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will vow to pursue a more aggressive policy toward the Middle East on Monday if elected in an attempt to draw a sharp distinction with how President Barack Obama has handled Libya, Iran, Syria and the Arab-Israeli dispute. Romney, in remarks at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, will make a case that his ...

Rhod Gilbert and his flaming tattoo

Rhod Gilbert tells the News Letter’s JOANNE SAVAGE about the rage that drives his comedy.

Colorado Theater Openings, 10/5/2012

Through Oct. 14: The Arvada Center moves its musical south for a short run at the Lone Tree Arts Center. This musical comedy centers on two con men living on the French Riviera who make a wager where the winner stays and the other leaves town forever.

Escape Artistes set to remake two films in Tamil - IndiaGlitz

IndiaGlitzEscape Artistes set to remake two films in TamilIndiaGlitzOne of them is a Bengali horror-comedy titled 'Bhooter Bhabishyat' which will present a Chandramukhi like entertainer to Tamil Cinema. ... Also part of their plans is a project with Director Ponram, who formerly worked with Rajesh in OKOK and SMS ...

Theater review: Great Lakes Theater’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’ a problem play

Aristotle had it right. He said that a story simply consists of a “somebody” doing “something,” and that it is either a comedy or a tragedy based on the nature of this somebody and the something being done.

Great Lakes Theater's 'The Winter's Tale' clowns around with tragedy, robs from comedy

Structurally, "The Winter's Tale," first printed in the folio of 1623 and grouped with the Bard's comedies, is two plays in one: a tragedy with a pastoral spliced on the end. That dual nature makes it something of a challenge to direct, like a shrink having to deal with a patient who is weeping and raging one moment, giggling and dancing the next.

Murder meets comedy

“Richard III” was at first called a tragedy, and these days, it’s typically classified as one of Shakespeare’s historical plays.

How the BBC has killed TV comedy

The BBC that once produced so much original comedy is now a timid place, where the bland lead the bland. This includes Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow (pictured) gags have no shade or insight.

The Declining West: Tragedy or Comedy?

During the Vietnam War, Sweden was an independent country with a moral conscience, and Sweden gave sanctuary to US war protestors who refused the draft.

Toga party on Queens Road

By Perry Tannenbaum Although our host Pseudolus seems to be weighing two common alternatives, comedy and tragedy, before opting for the jocular vein, Stephen Sondheim hardly ever pursued either option again after 1962, when he scored his first hit as a composer-lyricist with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum . Amazing when you consider that Sondheim had already put his hand into a ...

Fall theater preview: Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight, a musical next week

Mormon missionaries, a '70s TV heartthrob and a band of entertaining Irishmen have dates on metro Detroit stages this season. So do legendary movie producer David O. Selznick, a brand-new play named after our beloved but economically challenged city and those harmony-happy Jersey boys who swept us off our feet three Christmases ago.