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| Arts & Leisure: ‘Food and Fadwa’: How Noor Theater Was Born Thu, 17 May 2012 05:47:34 GMT A seriocomedy about life under occupation, “Food and Fadwa” is the inaugural production of Noor Theater, the Middle Eastern American company in residence at New York Theater Workshop. |
| Theater Review: ‘Man and Superman’ at the Irish Repertory Theater Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:54 GMT The Irish Repertory Theater adaptation of “Man and Superman” has winnowed the George Bernard Shaw play to two acts from four yet retains Shaw’s wit and animation. |
| Arts & Leisure: Steve Kazee of ‘Once’ Knows About Pain Wed, 16 May 2012 15:44:24 GMT Steve Kazee, whose Broadway role in “Once” is that of a man who is coming off a breakup and whose mother has died, is coming off breakup and lost his mother last month. |
| Theater Review: ‘Are You There, McPhee?’ by John Guare, at Berlind Theater Wed, 16 May 2012 18:29:21 GMT “Are You There, McPhee?,” the new John Guare play, is a dizzying comic fantasy about the terrors of childhood, the confusions of adulthood and much more. |
| Theater Review: ‘American Jornalero,’ at the Intar Theater Wed, 16 May 2012 19:27:16 GMT In “American Jornalero,” by Ed Cardona Jr., day laborers hope for work but must brace for confrontation. |
| Theater Review: ‘pool (no water),’ by Mark Ravenhill at the 9th Space Tue, 15 May 2012 19:17:16 GMT Three cheers for the small but ambitious One Year Lease Theater Company for bringing Mark Ravenhill’s terrific play “pool (no water)” to New York. |
| Lincoln Center Theater to Open Claire Tow Theater for LCT3 Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:41 GMT Lincoln Center Theater opens a 112-seat showcase on Tuesday intended to serve a younger, more diverse audience. |
| Theater Review: Women Call the Shots Onstage Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:06 GMT Prismatic brilliance sweeps the London stage, from Laurie Metcalf in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey," to Summer Strallen in "Top Hat" and Anna Chancellor in a Rattigan-Hare double-bill. |
| ArtsBeat: Don't Stop the Press! 'Newsies' Run Is Now Open-Ended Wed, 16 May 2012 21:30:03 GMT "Newsies," the hit Broadway musical from Disney, is doing far too well to close in August as planned. |
| ArtsBeat: Broadway Musical 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert' to Close Wed, 16 May 2012 21:32:43 GMT The musical, about a team of drag performers journeying through remote Australia in a camping (and camp) bus, will play its final show at the Palace Theater on June 24. |
| ArtsBeat: 'Death of a Salesman,' With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Is to Turn a Profit Wed, 16 May 2012 21:34:02 GMT Only 30 percent of Broadway shows turn a profit but after 14 weeks at the Barrymore Theater the revival of “Death of a Salesman” is about to join that group. |
| Theater Review: ‘Take What Is Yours,’ about Alice Paul, at 59E59 Theaters Wed, 16 May 2012 22:52:29 GMT “Take What Is Yours” is a psychological thriller about Alice Paul and the women’s suffrage movement. |
| Theater Review: ‘Sophie Gets the Horns’ at Incubator Arts Project Tue, 15 May 2012 21:24:30 GMT “Sophie Gets the Horns” captures college freshman rivalry in the mid-’90s. |
| Theater Review: ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,’ With Megan Hilty, at City Center Fri, 11 May 2012 19:00:08 GMT Megan Hilty stars in the red-blooded Encores! concert staging of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” |
| Theater Review: ‘The House of Mirth,’ at Metropolitan Playhouse Fri, 11 May 2012 19:30:07 GMT A 1906 adaptation of Edith Wharton’s “House of Mirth,” presented at Metropolitan Playhouse, displays the theatrical conventions of the melodramas of its time. |
| Theater Review: ‘Fat Camp,’ a Musical With Carly Jibson Fri, 11 May 2012 15:00:33 GMT Too much artificial sweetener has been stirred into “Fat Camp,” a new musical at the American Theater of Actors about teenagers singing their way to slimmer waistlines. |
| Theater Review: ‘Heat Wave’ Revue at Queens Theater in the Park Fri, 11 May 2012 15:00:05 GMT The choreographer and style setter Jack Cole is celebrated in “Heat Wave,” a musical revue. |
| Arts | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Into the Woods,’ at Westport Country Playhouse Wed, 16 May 2012 20:30:02 GMT The Westport Country Playhouse’s production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods” offers a new look at characters like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood. |
| Arts | Long Island: A Review of ‘Uncle Vanya,’ at Guild Hall in East Hampton Wed, 16 May 2012 18:28:48 GMT “Uncle Vanya,” a play known as much for its light comic notes as for its sense of woe, has come to the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton. |
| Arts | New Jersey: A Review of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles,’ at the New Jersey Repertory Company Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:41 GMT Two British authors adapt “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s popular 1902 novel, expressly for laughs at the New Jersey Repertory Company. |
| Theater Listings Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:24:06 GMT A selected guide to theater performances in New York, on and off Broadway. |
| Life of a ‘Salesman’ Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:52:26 GMT Charles Isherwood leads an online discussion about Arthur Miller’s classic play. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.