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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

‘The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age’ by Alex Witchel

A look back at Al Hirschfeld’s 80-year career depicting film and theater’s signature faces.

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Friday, November 21, 2014

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Is, and Is Not, Writing About Race by Alex Witchel

In his latest work,"War,” the 29-year-old playwright again turns questions of identity on their heads.

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Chat & Chow: Drinks and Dinner With Garry Marshall by Alex Witchel

Garry Marshall, back in New York to direct a new play, sees old friends everywhere he turns, including the bar at the Ritz-Carlton.

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Friday, August 29, 2014

Chat & Chow: Former Miss America Kate Shindle Revisits Favorite Haunts by Alex Witchel

Ms. Shindle appeared on Broadway as Sally Bowles in CABARET, spent a year and a half in the musical LEGALLY BLONDE and just opened in 'REVOLUTION IN THE ELBOW'

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Taking the Crown, Then Taking Orders: Former Miss America Kate Shindle Revisits Favorite Haunts by Alex Witchel

Ms. Shindle appeared on Broadway as Sally Bowles in CABARET, spent a year and a half in the musical LEGALLY BLONDE and just opened in REVOLUTION IN THE ELBOW OF RAGNAR AGNARSSON FURNITURE PA…

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Friday, September 20, 2013

Cherry Jones, at the Peak of Her Powers by Alex Witchel

One of the great theater actresses talks about stage fright, vanity and her pre-performance rituals.    

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Mandy Patinkin - ‘I Behaved Abominably’ - NYTimes.com by Alex Witchel

It was the fifth take, or maybe the seventh or maybe the ninth. Down in the bowels of Langley, or at least in its reasonable facsimile in Charlotte, N.C., where Showtime’s “Homeland” i…

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Mandy Patinkin: ‘I Behaved Abominably’ by Alex Witchel

The actor thought he would never be able to work in television again. Then came the perfect role.    

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Friday, March 29, 2013

Bobby Cannavale, Broadway’s Hottest Outsider by Alex Witchel

It was a miserable morning, rainy, cold and Wednesday, so Barney Greengrass was mostly empty. Bobby Cannavale was there having breakfast with the actor Richard Kind. Cannavale buttered a bia…

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Bobby Cannavale, Broadway’s Hottest Outsider by Alex Witchel

He has starred with Chris Rock, Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin. And now he’s getting the best parts.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

David Henry Hwang, the Man Who Can Make Bruce Lee Talk - NYTimes.com by Alex Witchel

A quarter-century after “M. Butterfly” won him the Tony Award, Hwang, a first-generation Chinese-American, still bends under the lifelong weight of expectations from his high-achieving i…

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David Henry Hwang, the Man Who Can Make Bruce Lee Talk by Alex Witchel

For his next feat, “Kung Fu,” the playwright David Henry Hwang reimagines an icon.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Stage Fright: Daisy Foote on Writing Since the Death of Her Father, Horton by Alex Witchel

“Him,” the playwright Daisy Foote’s first play to be produced since the death of her father and mentor, Horton Foote, is in previews at Primary Stages.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Cynthia Nixon’s Life After ‘Sex’ by Alex Witchel

Post-Miranda,post-men and post-cancer, Cynthia Nixon returns to where she has always felt most like herself.

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Ellen Barkin is No Uptown Girl - NYTimes.com by Alex Witchel

Ellen Barkin led me up the stairs so I could see her bedroom. She was chatty in the way you’d expect Ellen Barkin to be — sort of tough yet sort of warm, sort of open, sort of closed.

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