Initially presented in April at a studio theater within the Royal Opera House, "The Fireworks-Maker's Daughter" calls for nine players plus the conductor, all of whom are onstage, rather than hidden in the pit.

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And if a playwright were to write such a play, The Royal Court Theater wouldn't produce it.

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The Royal Court Theater produced her anti- Jewish agitprop.

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Background is brought to foreground in a wealth of reminiscences, interviews with surviving members, film clips from the distant past and superb concert footage from the recent past, when the reunited Funk Brothers played at Detroit's Royal Oak Music Theater behind such singers as Joan Osborne, Ben Harper, Bootsy Collins, Chaka Khan and Meshell Ndegeocello.

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A. program at Warwick Business School in England, students learn to express themselves more effectively by taking a theater course that involves the nearby Royal Shakespeare Company.

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