The fellow in the upper-lobby lounge of the of the Vivian Beaumont Theater fielding press questions is sitting very pretty indeed. These days, he's being quizzed on two literary fronts.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:47AM“I don’t know about you, but I spent election night with my family,” wrote Ben Brantley in The New York Times two days after Barack Obama was re-elected president. “The Apples…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:28PMBorle at his bravest and best is Borle at his broadest—a daring high-wire act of comedy. He’d give Wile E. Coyote cause to pause. Just look at the two cartoony Tony win in a row he is co…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:09AMWhen you leave A Life at Playwrights Horizons, you’ll be—if you aren’t already—thanking your lucky stars for David Hyde Pierce. It is not overstating the case too much to say that …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30AMWere the Internet Broadway Database your sole means of tracking down the Main Stem career of Diane Lane, you could get the distinct impression the poor dear has marked time in The Cherry Orc…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:49PM“It’s someone I’ve known for a good many years,” Irving Berlin remarked after a quick peek inside the Oscar envelope. “He’s a nice kid and, I think, deserves it.” Translation:…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AM“Please, the full company of All the Ways to Say I Love You—to the set, please.” Such is the politely overripe way stage manager David Lurie summons his cast to work these days. Prompt…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AMAny dollar bill with Alexander Hamilton’s picture on it will get you a shot at Hamilton, the musical—and all-round phenomenon now (and, maybe, forever) at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. If…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:37PMOur theater community took a major hit this month with the passing of James Houghton, the 57-year-old artistic director of the Signature Theater Company who pioneered a whole new procedure i…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00AMIn Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, which starts tonight and is running through July 30 as part the Encores! Off-Center series at City Center, the first voice you hear after t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:43PMDirector Rachel Chavkin is riding a comet to Broadway—surely the slowest-moving comet ever to streak across the stratosphere. On November 14—four years, one month and two days after it w…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:30PMThe years have salt-and-peppered his hair. He sports his share of wrinkles, crinkles and other signs of the times. But there’s something eternal and imperishable about Matthew Broderick’…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:54PMJessica Lange was discovered in 1976 in the oversized mitt of King Kong, pretty damn distressed but pretty, and—surprise! surprise!—has spent the next 40 years harvesting film-acting har…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:24PMEver realize how many years Frank Langella has been giving “the performance of a lifetime”? Critics keep trotting out that old chestnut, and he keeps calling them on it. They said it a…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00AMClive Owen turns from fanatical surgeon on The Knick to jealous husband on Broadway in Harold Pinter’s Old Times
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:06PMThe title is the playwright’s secret Rx for keeping marriages afloat.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:30AMDirector Des McAnuff, who has helmed Tony winners like Jersey Boys and The Who’s Tommy, sums up the history of his most recent project succinctly.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:06AMDolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero—Chita to you and the rest of the world—is closing out the Broadway season with The Visit she has been promising for 14 years. Believe it or not, Mr. …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:30PMDiane Lane, a child star, returns to New York theater older, wiser and, annoyingly, just as gorgeous.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:43AMNow, Peter Gallagher and Kristin Chenoweth have stepped up for a March 12 bow at the American Airlines Theater.
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