SHN presents The King and I

Anna and the King dance again Here’s an unlikely basis for a musical; a British schoolteacher’s experience in 19th century Siam.  No more unlikely, you might say, than Chinese life in modern San Francisco, or the intersection of American soldiers and natives on a small island during World War II, or the struggles of settlers in American Indian territory.  And yet all four were made into musicals, and hit musicals at that.  The second...

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Cirque du Soleil in sun-soaked rain

  Although they must have started designing the current Cirque du Soleil extravaganza that opened at AT&T this past weekend long before Donald Trump made his controversial speech, there is something ironic and defiant in its theme....

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