'Getting Sara Married' - A sitcom-reminiscent theater review

The set-up:

Sam Bobrick's romantic comedy, Getting Sara Married, is so airy it floats away while we're watching. This might be perfectly acceptable when such fluff is on TV (which, trust me, is where this whole enterprise gets its inspiration), but when stuck in a theater without other distractions, a featherweight sit-com can weigh a ton of bricks.

The execution:

It's no surprise Sara has TV written all over it -- Bobrick is a former master craftsman of the family comedy. He's had his hand in The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, Get Smart, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, among many other classic shows, so he knows all about the technique for writing comedy. He could write one blindfolded.

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Trisha teams up with Jiiva for romantic comedy

It seems Tamil actress Trisha Krishnan doesn't mind shooting on a Sunday. She says that she enjoyed shooting for her upcoming Tamil film "Endrendrum Punnagai" on the weekend.

"It's a working Sunday for me and I'm actually loving it. First day combination with Jiiva, Santhanam and Vinay (Rai) on the 'Endrendrum Punnagai' sets," Trisha Krishnan tweeted Sunday. She has teamed up with Jiiva for the first time.

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'Barefoot in the Park' staged by Fairbanks Drama Association

FAIRBANKS — You would think tackling one of Neil Simon’s best-known plays would prompt apprehension, or at least, a little nervousness.

But when director Bill Wright had the opportunity to bring “Barefoot in the Park” to life on stage at the Fairbanks Drama Association, he jumped at the chance.

“Each run is different,” Wright said. “Having that dynamic doesn’t intimidate me. It excites me.”

Wright is bringing the play to life, starting tonight, for a three-weekend run at the playhouse on Second Avenue. “Barefoot” is one of Simon’s most-beloved comedies and was turned into a feature film of the same name in 1967. It’s also Simon’s longest-running Broadway play, with 1,530 performances from October 1963 to June 1967.

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Nora Ephron retrospective showcased at Aero

Ephron, one of the few filmmakers whose rom-coms were actually (and consistently) funny and romantic was noted throughout her career for a style characterized by wit and charm. Watching the writer-director's work through the lens of her recent death, however, is likely to be as bittersweet as it is joyous.

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'I need romance' actress' gamble proves worthwhile

Actress Jung Yu-mi was at first reluctant to accept the lead role in tvN's "I Need Romance," but she now feels the gambit of switching from movies to cable TV has paid off.

The show, a romantic comedy that finished airing early this month after garnering surprisingly favorable viewer ratings, is a sequel to the hit soap with the same title that first aired in 2011.

"I thought I'd be better off staying in films, even though I liked the [drama's] script and wanted the role very much. But now I think it was stupid of me to even consider not going for it," she said.

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Mississippi MUDDS Youth Theatre stages 'Much Ado About Nothing'

A perennial favourite, Much Ado tells the well-loved story of Beatrice and Benedick, two young lovers who trade insults to disguise their own fears of admitting their true feelings. Of course, everyone else in the story can tell that they're crazy about each other, and stage a crafty plot to get them to admit it.

At the same time, the happy romance of the other two lovers, Hero and Claudio, is attacked by the nefarious Donna Juanita, who causes trouble just for fun. But in the end her plots are foiled because of the intervention of the clueless bumpkin Dogberry and all the upset turns out to be - yes - Much Ado About Nothing.

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'Lola vs.' - A DVD/Blu-ray review

Lola has just turned 29. She lives with her painter boyfriend, Luke (Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman), in their Lower East Side loft and he’s just proposed. Then after all the wedding plans, he breaks it off out of nowhere. Now it’s Lola against the world. Feeling sorry for herself as if she should’ve seen the breakup coming, Lola sleeps and weeps a lot and power eats, while having shoulders to lean on from her two best friends, single actress Alice (Zoe Lister Jones), and Luke’s mutual buddy, Henry (Hamish Linklater), who’s clearly a good match for her. But Lola has to learn to live her own life, so she moves back into her old subletted apartment to finish writing her literature dissertation.

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