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'Far From Heaven' opens Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons

Far From Heaven is a musical with a book by Richard Greenberg, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie. The musical is adapted from Todd Haynes's 2002 film of the same name. The musical tells the story of Cathy Whitaker, a 1950s housewife, living in wealthy suburban Connecticut as she sees her seemingly perfect life begin to fall apart.

Painting of Minogue causes tempers to fray among drivers

Artist Simon Etheridge, 30, put up the almost-lifesize picture of Kylie Minogue wearing gold hot pants in his own Art Asylum gallery, in Kemp Town, for the Brighton Festival in May. Since then, he said, motorists have caused regular traffic hold-ups as they stop to take a second look.

Antonio Salieri's 'Armida' debuts at the Vienna Burgtheater

Salieri's opera was 1st performed at the Vienna Burgtheater in June 1771, and his composition was much influenced by the aesthetics of Christoph Willibald Gluck, who attempted to reform opera seria by tying the drama more closely to the music. Salieri's overture follows the principles set out by Gluck in the preface to Alceste.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1953

Cornel West

born 1972

Wayne Brady