Paula Mitchell Manning

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  • Highlight Hollywood: EXCLUSIVE ‘CPR’ (Child Performers Resurrection) Starring Many Former Child Stars Seeking Home

    Highlight Hollywood: EXCLUSIVE ‘CPR’ (Child Performers Resurrection) Starring Many Former Child Stars Seeking Home

    Original Article at Highlight Hollywood by Tommy Lightfoot Garrett

    Alison Arngrim, Paula Mitchell-Manning and Paul Petersen
    Alison Arngrim, Paula Mitchell-Manning and Paul Petersen

    Exciting news to report on “CPR” (Child Performers Resurrection), which stars many former child stars. Highlight Hollywood has learned the series  is now seeking a home following cast and crew pilot screening at the famed Dick Clark Studios.”CPR” is a triple pun, and a smart, wacky, comedy series that pays off on all levels.  “CPR” stands for Child Performers Resurrection, the name of a talent agency owned by a former child star, who understands the needs of wayward industry brats because she was one.  “CPR” is also a life-saving measure, and the CPR agency is in need of a large transfusion of money.

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  • Broadway World: NAACP Theatre Award Winners Announced

    Broadway World: NAACP Theatre Award Winners Announced

    Original Article from Broadway World by BWW News Desk

    Actors Kimberly Elise and Anthony Anderson hosted the 18th annual NAACP Theatre Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on June 30.

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  • Daily Bruin Theatre Review: Butterflies of Uganda

    Daily Bruin Theatre Review: Butterflies of Uganda

    Original Article at DailyBruin.com by Linda Chang

    “Butterflies of Uganda” immediately grabs your attention with the opening line: “Let me tell you a story. I was conceived in rape.” The speaker is Mercy, an Acholi girl from Uganda who is abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Africa to become a child soldier, and the words are all the more gripping because they are based on true events.

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  • Broadway World: Photo Preview – ‘Butterflies of Uganda’ World Premiere

    Broadway World: Photo Preview – ‘Butterflies of Uganda’ World Premiere

    Original Article at Broadway World by BWW

    The world premiere of Butterflies of Uganda: The Memories of a Child Soldier A Harrowing Story of Abduction, Escape and Reconciliation begins previews September 5th, opens September 8th and runs through October 13th at the Greenway Arts Alliance’s The Greenway Court Theatre (544 North Fairfax Avenue) in Los Angeles.

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  • LA Times Review: Colored Contradictions

    LA Times Review: Colored Contradictions

    Original Article from LA Times by Daryl H. Miller

    The power of the black experience

    The show begins with a scene from George C. Wolfe’s deconstructionist comedy “The Colored Museum” in which a woman, dancing with joyous abandon, tells us there’s a party going on inside of her that connects her to “everybody and everything that’s ever been” a part of African American history. “My power,” she says, “is in my madness and my colored contradictions.” (more…)