Lorca play cancelled after death threats
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A play about Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca has been cancelled after its proposed performance ignited political passions still simmering over Spain's 1936-1939 civil war.
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BERLIN -- Pressure mounted yesterday on the Deutsche Oper Berlin to rescind the cancellation of a production that depicted the beheading of the Prophet Mohammed. Chancellor Angela Merkel said ``there can be no compromises" on free speech.
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A leading opera house has canceled a 3-year-old production of Mozart's "Idomeneo," citing authorities' fears that it posed "incalculable" security risks because it featured the severed head of religious figures, including Muhammad.
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A Spanish court on Thursday  canceled Carnival celebrations in the Canary Islands city of  Santa Cruz de Tenerife -- one of the biggest in the world --  because they are too noisy.
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LOS ANGELES  - A filmmaker who received death threats after releasing a film that criticized the treatment of Muslim women was murdered in Amsterdam on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Theo Van Gogh, the great
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Anne Frankâs last living relative has voiced his disapproval of plans for a Spanish musical based on her renowned diary.
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Leading figures from the arts world are among more than 700 signatories of an open letter supporting the Sikh playwright who has been forced into hiding by death threats.
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A play which led to violent protests among the Sikh community has its run cancelled by a city's theatre.
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An Mozart opera featuring a beheaded Prophet Muhammad and other religious figures is scrapped over security fears.
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Dragan Nikitovic, the promoter of the Saarbruecken festival, was so disgusted by Banton's lyrics, which incite the murder of gay people, that he immediately cancelled Banton's performance, saying he was ...
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Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest 20th-century poet, was dragged from a home here in the dead of an August night in 1936 and shot dead by Fascist forces loyal to Gen.
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An umbrella group of British Sikhs called on Friday for death threats made against a British playwright to be withdrawn and said they have no endorsement from their community.
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The Live Earth concert in Rio de Janeiro is threatened after a judge cancelled Saturday's concert over safety concerns.
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The state Racing and Wagering Board yesterday suspended the racing licenses of three horsemen, including a reputed member of the Gambino organized crime family, who were linked to a plot to fix a horse race by doping one of the animals.
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Soccer Game in Spain That Was Suspended Because of Bomb Threat Will Be Completed on Jan. 5. Police evacuate the Bernabeu stadium after a bomb threat during a Spanish league soccer match between Real Madrid and Real Sociadad in Madrid Sunday Dec. 12, 2004.
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The directors of a British play depicting sexual abuse and murder in a Sikh temple reluctantly scrapped their production on Monday due to fears violent protests against it would escalate.
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Citing death threats, an upstate New York college on Tuesday canceled a panel discussion featuring a professor who compared the World Trade Center victims to Nazis.