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...From May 15 to 26; further information and tickets here ‘Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”’, CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre Tony-winner Bartlett Sher directs Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of the Harper Lee classic...
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...White House, he benefited from its fawning coverage, while it also dutifully trashed his rivals on the campaign trail, including stories linking the father of Senator Ted Cruz and John F Kennedy assassin Lee...
...In the past three weeks, stars including England’s Jason Roy, Australia’s Aaron Finch and Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan have been paid six-figure sums to descend on Cawley’s town of Morrisville, North Carolina...
...Peck uses music by Aaron Copland and collaborates with Choctaw-Cherokee painter and sculptor Jeffrey Gibson: celebrating American culture in all its finest forms....
...That’s a line that rings out for an audience watching in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement....
...We see it in To Kill a Mockingbird, the UK premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s seminal novel, with Rafe Spall playing Atticus Finch (Gielgud Theatre from March 10)....
...When Martin Luther King Jr walked with 250,000 people to Washington in 1963, it was a march for “jobs and freedom”....
...Only George Soros’s hedge fund Soros Fund Management comes close to having incubated so many key players in the industry, according to LCH....
...Isaac Wright Jr was a New Jersey music producer sentenced to life in 1991 for leading a cocaine trafficking ring....
...After all, Lee could not have known the name George Floyd while making this story of black Vietnam veterans, returned to south-east Asia....
...George Floyd’s killing in police custody and the subsequent protests against police brutality across the US are threatening to undermine years of political lobbying efforts by US police organisations to...
...Freddie Lee Tyson, who had congenital syphilis but never showed any symptoms, was not one of these....
...Kail is cine-savvy enough to know how to pick a close-up, whether of Miranda’s Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr as rival Aaron Burr, or the cold-blooded King George (Jonathan Groff), swaddled in ermine....
...Sunday”, in March 1965, as he and around 600 protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to advocate for their voting rights and to express their anger at the killing of Jimmie Lee...
...Additional reporting by Dave Lee in San Francisco...
...He is standing next to Aaron Chaz, a 30-year-old film-maker who has attended the protest with his girlfriend....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...Rhys Ifans plays Atticus Finch in the UK premiere of To Kill a Mocking Bird, adapted by Aaron Sorkin from Harper Lee’s novel (Gielgud Theatre, London, from May 21)....
...“John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr — where are you now that we need you?” Americans offered to assassinate Brooker instead; he carried on, delighting in insult and exaggeration....
...On a visit to the White House in 1992, he gave President George HW Bush a letter urging him to address the concerns of the poor and minorities....
...Lee Cortes Jr, an assistant US attorney, argued on Friday that the defendants and Mr Wildstein conspired to punish Mark Sokolich, Fort Lee’s mayor....
...Its current president, Jerry Falwell Jr, endorsed his candidacy....
...During a roundtable discussion organised by The Hollywood Reporter last month, Leslie Odom Jr, who plays Vice-President Aaron Burr in Hamilton, complained that he was receiving no offers of future work —...
...Directed with affection by Thomas Kail and with fierce choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, Hamilton centres on the volatile relationship between Hamilton and Aaron Burr....
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