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	<description>Introducing Classic Theater to Audiences of All Ages</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Chekov Farces&#8221; &#8211; All you need is Love?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Dr. and Mrs. Anton Chekov &#160; One of the most dazzling of Shakespeare&#8217;s attributes was his ability to write brilliantly and often in so many different genres. Comedy, tragedy, history – and in many different variations. It’s as if all the Emmys of an evening were won by the same writer. In this, no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2012/04/07/chekov-farces-all-you-need-is-love/</link>
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		<title>Galsworthy and Swift: Rebels with a Cause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parson&#8217;s Nose Readers&#8217; Theater Series &#8220;Quality&#8221; by John Galsworthy &#8220;A Modest Proposal&#8221; by Jonathan Swift Saturday Soiree, March 17 @ 7 PM/ Sunday Matinee, March 18 @ 2 PM Lineage Performing Arts Center, 89 S. Fair Oaks, Pasadena, CA. 91105 Ages 11+ suggested. Seniors especially welcome. Tickets: http://www.parsonsnose.tix.com &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Theater is dramatic storytelling. We have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2012/03/04/galsworthy-and-swift-rebels-with-a-cause/</link>
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		<title>Moliere: The Pin and the Balloon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jean Baptiste Poquelin was born and raised in Paris, about five blocks from the Louvre, which was, at the time, one of several Royal Palaces. His father was an upholsterer to the King. His mother died when he was about ten years old, and his grandfather took him often to the carnival-like atmosphere of puppet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2012/02/06/moliere-the-pin-and-the-balloon/</link>
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		<title>About &#8220;The Summoning of Everyman&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Death: Didst thou think thy life was given thee? Nay, it was but lent thee.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2012/01/02/about-the-summoning-of-everyman/</link>
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		<title>Simple Joys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;A Christmas Carol&#8221; by Charles Dickens in a one hour, Readers&#8217; Theater adaptation by Lance Davis Saturday December 17 at 2 PM and 7 PM; Sunday,  December 18 at 2 PM Lineage Performing Arts Center, 89 S. Fair Oaks, Pasadena, CA 91005 PayWhatYouWill, but reservations necessary. Go to www.parsonsnose.com or call 626-403-7667. Remember how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2011/12/06/pantalone-harpagon-scrooge-jack-benny-mr-burns/</link>
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		<title>“The Perilous Streets of Pasadena!”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Written by Dion Boucicault; adapted by Lance Davis Saturdays November 12, 19 and 26 at 2 PM and 7 PM Sundays November 13, 20 and 27 at 2 PM Tickets $20 Adults; $10 Students and Over 60 Tickets: www.parsonsnose.com or 626-403-7667 Lineage Performing Arts Center, 89 South Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105 Running time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2011/10/11/%e2%80%9cthe-perilous-streets-of-pasadena%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>The Government Inspector! by Nicolai Gogol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1835 the Ukrainian writer Nicolai Gogol asked his friend Pushkin for a Russian story he could develop into a play. Pushkin gave him a true incident in which he was mistaken for a Government Inspector, Gogol seized the moment and in a whirlwind of brilliance penned a comedy of farcical greed that became a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2011/09/19/the-government-inspector-by-nicolai-gogol/</link>
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		<title>Shakespeare&#8217;s Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Language was the television of everyday life in Elizabethan times. People delighted in hearing new words and phrases, then using them in their own speech. In Love&#8217;s Labors Lost and Twelfth Night characters carry notepads to write down new words and phrases they can incorporate. Much like our &#8220;whatever&#8230;&#8221;. We can understand many of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2011/09/12/shakespeares-language/</link>
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		<title>Take Five Minutes with Shakespeare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please take 5 minutes to hear our greatest writer muse on the false glamour of leadership. Click here: Henry V \&#8221;Ceremony\&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2011/08/06/take-five-minutes-with-shakespeare/</link>
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		<title>Grab a wine. Sarah Bernhardt&#8217;s &#8220;Phedre&#8221; audio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(image: lautrec: bernhardt in Phedre) Just on a lark I was listening to some Edison cylinders made in early 20th century. One was a recording of Sarah Bernhardt&#8217;s &#8220;Phedre&#8221; by Racine, a contemporary of Moliere. Moliere didn&#8217;t have much luck with tragedy. It was performed, in the 17th Century, in a declamatory style that his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parsonsnose.com/blog/2011/07/07/grab-a-wine-sarah-bernhardts-phedre-audio/</link>
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