Mark Brown

Review: An adventurous journey 'Around the World in 80 Days'

2013-01-29 12:07:00

An auspicious opener for International City Theatre's 28th season, “Around the World in 80 Days,” Mark Brown's adroit adaptation of Jules Verne's 1873 classic, is cleverness personified. The play concerns the peregrinations of Phileas Fogg...

'Tintin' and HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire' lead Visual Effects nominations

2012-01-09 04:35:47

A night with Prince: 'This is real time'

2013-05-24 05:05:05

DENVER The e-mail arrived at 3 p.m. Monday, marked urgent: "Can you fly out to Denver tonight and cover Prince's show? You can have time with each of the girls (in his band 3rdEyeGirl) and there is a chance Prince will talk." This is how Prince rolls....

Madcap action and thrilling adventure in Penobscot Theatre's 'Around the World in 80 Days'

2013-05-14 11:24:03

At first glance, a table doesn't look like an elephant. But with a hefty dollop of theatrical imagination, it becomes the pachyderm that Phileas Fogg and Passepartout ride through India in "Around the World in 80 Days," an adaptation that will soon hit...

Love of Chicago history fuels Paul Durica

2013-03-08 00:00:00

The first time I met Paul Durica, he was Ben Reitman. This was a few summers ago at the annual Bughouse Square Debates, held by the Newberry Library in the small Washington Square Park across the street and celebrating the bygone era when that park...

Party on -- and off

2012-11-28 07:38:00

As ambitious as it is, "The Wild Party" comes off as day two of a nonstop rave … and your buzz is crashing. The Andrew Lippa musical is the opening show of the Boca Raton-based Outre Theatre Company's inaugural season and boasts a serviceable 15-...

Scoreboard -- Oct. 20, 2012

2012-10-20 22:14:00

|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| NFL Football--Baltimore Ravens at Houston Texans, Noon (CBS); Arizona Cardinals at Minnesota Vikings, Noon (FOX); New York Jets at New England Patriots, 3:25 p.m. (CBS); Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)...

Weeks in review

2012-05-03 16:32:14

Collision with the law, Day 2: Cop crashes leave devastated families

2012-02-12 16:56:00

Almost three years after her brother's death, Aluria Clarke is still furious. Victor Steen was riding a bicycle in 2009 when a Pensacola police officer tried to pull him over. The 17-year-old didn't stop, so Officer Jerald Ard shot him with a Taser...

Prep Football: John Hardin coach says Boyle, Lexington Catholic are completely different

2011-09-29 06:35:00

John Hardin coach Mark Brown has played both Lexington Catholic and Boyle County this season, and said the team’s could not be more different. “Catholic’s going to throw the ball and their quarterback (Kyle Bolin) makes them good. When...

Playwright Mark Brown special guest at Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s PlayFest!

2011-03-11 16:37:01

Orlando Shakespeare Theater PlayFest! schedule

2011-03-11 16:37:02

It's an adventure within an adventure as you travel through The Morton Arboretum while Theatre-Hikes presents "Around the World in 80 Days." Five actors take on 39 roles in Mark Brown's adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, in which Phileas Fogg tries to travel the world in 80 days to win a wager.

2011-09-08 15:25:06