Romeo & Juliet should not be a difficult play to present…but it is. Remarkably difficult. It is not that the plot is too convoluted; Hamlet, in its original form, is much more confusing. It is not that the language is an insurmountable barrier; Henry V is richer in the lofty phrases of Elizabethan English. It … Read more
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‘LEFT BEHIND: THE MOVIE’ EARLY RELEASE STIRS CONTROVERSY Christian retailers voiced concerns that Cloud Ten Pictures told large Christian ministries they would have a 30-days advance selling prior to the video’s Oct. 31 Christian-market release. Retailers believed they would have a 30-day advanced selling period before the general-market release. Some retailers invested in local video … Read more
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Best-selling novelist Frank Peretti’s “The Oath” comes to life on stage Halloween weekend at Grace Church of the Nazarene, 2620 Pennington Bend Road in Nashville. Adapted from the novel to the stage by local writer and director Gary Lide, the play features sin, mayhem and murder- elements not often witnessed in church. “This play is … Read more
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LEFT BEHIND, The Movie ©2000 Dr. Ted Baehr LEFT BEHIND is the best movie made so far in the apocalyptic genre and has been crafted with a very careful, deft touch. It involves the audience in the storyline of the people. Kirk Cameron’s vulnerability, though unlike the Buck of the book, makes the movie much … Read more
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“Death, be not proud, though some have callèd thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;” John Donne Wit, on the surface, is a straight-forward play about one woman’s battle with cancer – insidious advanced metastatic ovarian cancer, to be exact. It is a tragi-comedy of sorts. As the lead character, Vivian Bearing, Ph.D. … Read more
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Halloween will see two different approaches to film marketing as Providence Entertainment, the movie distributor and marketer responsible for bringing last year’s sleeper hit, The Omega Code, to theaters and to national notoriety, has elected to open its newest film on Halloween, October 31. Mercy Streets, produced by Signal Hill Pictures, stars David White, Eric … Read more
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Ipse Dixit Leaves The Shoppes @ River Rock Mall Ipse Dixit Christian Community has been asked by the management of The Shoppes @ River Rock to find a new location by Oct. 1, 2000.“This is exactly what we hoped would not happen,” says the Ministry Team, “but God never closes a door without opening a … Read more
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A man of the world who, notoriously or not, was one of the translators of the Bible for King James is the subject here. In most of his plays that have transcended the ages almost as well as Bible literature, he uses scripture passages very often biblical themes, and varying degrees of Christian characters. William … Read more
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