Actor Holland Taylor talks politics, art and acting in a profile on the eve of PBS' Great Performances broadcast of her Tony-nominated play "Ann"
SOURCE: Medium at 03:40PMWhen someone told me Larry Kramer had died, the words were nonsense to my ears; they simply did not compute. The Larry I knew wasn’t capable of being felled by anything, including death—…
SOURCE: lithub.com at 06:54PMThe hidden cost of bias toward female-themed works is bared in a male reviewer's inability to take seriously the female-centered "After the Wedding"
SOURCE: www.gaycitynews.nyc at 04:11PMAn interview with "Mary Jane"'s buzzy theater director Anne Kauffman
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:37AMPaula Vogel’s “Indecent” is many things: an idiosyncratic mix of music, memory and theater magic; a female take on an infamous male intellectual; a Holocaust parable that m…
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 02:23PMAny progress we make, to me, is fleeting because underneath it there’s the smoldering coal about to break out in conflagration of a hatred of women.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:58PM(Ezra LeBank, Cynthia Price & Taylor Casas ) Flight 20th New York International Fringe Festival Encore Series Barrow Street Theatre, NYC September 24-30, 2016 A quest…
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 03:37PMHappy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Good Time Fun Fun Show 20th New York International Fringe Festival DROM, NYC August 21 & 22, 2016 "Welcome to the dress rehearsal/…
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 10:16PM1. What does the phrase "protect and serve" mean to you? 2. Are you comfortable shooting a gun? 3. Do you consider people who don't look like you to be human beings? 4. Define the …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:10PMDrew Hodges is at a loss for words. Asked if he’s surprised at the life he’s leading -- did he imagine he’d grow up to fly around the world orchestrating scenes with great …
SOURCE: culturecatch.com at 05:53AMYou may not know Drew Hodges' name, but you're living in a world he helped create. His new book, On Broadway, is an irresistible adventure that lifts the curtain on the making of the best an…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:47PMWhat are we to do when the private persona of a performer bleeds over into the public creative sphere? The line is so fragile...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:02AMI'd call Memories of the Revolution "invaluable" -- if only that word conveyed how exhilarating it is to read this new book, the inside story of the women's theater corps that infi…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:23PMStealth national treasure Holland Taylor sparked headlines recently with a declaration about her love life she was surprised to find people considered news. The 72-year-old Emmy winner and T…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:56PMThe weather was too beautiful, so Judith Owen was depressed. The Welsh singer-songwriter was living in Southern California with...
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:26PMEven those who tremble at the phrase "audience participation" end up awash in the bliss of communal exhibitionism -- some even clutching one of the special prizes doled out by ring…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:33PMFraught family dynamics enliven The Hummingbird's Tour, a decidedly Southern comedy in which three very different siblings confront their own mortality -- and that of their beloved childhood…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:35PMThe star of David Lindsay-Abaire's new play Ripcord opens up about her long career, where she gets her nerve and the “corruption and ruin of being a politician in America.”
SOURCE: nytlive.nytimes.com at 05:38PMThe new film Grandma tells a story rare for American cinema: a lesbian of advanced years (Lily Tomlin), in mourning for her soul mate and on skittish footing with the much younger woman she'…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:14AMAmy Schumer's Trainwreck introduces us to a new kind of mainstream film heroine: blunt, thoughtless, more interested in being gratified than likable, one whose boundless appetites are played…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:53PMWhen the Supreme Court released its ruling on same-sex marriage, I was walking to work, unaware history was being made. I was being given editorial notes over the phone, so my head was full …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:11PMThe virulence with which hateful proclamations -- on all matters of identity -- continue to be publicly aired has a lasting effect, on me, on you, on everyone I know.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:35PMI first saw Beth Malone three years ago in a tiny theater in Hell's Kitchen performing a solo show. The actor, who billed herself as "part dude, part lady... all lesbian," examined…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:08PMIn the throes of fighting for her life, Margolin revels in vivid memories of her youth, unscheduled raptures far from the enforced multitasking of today. And where she now finds herself is w…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 09:27PMAgainst all odds filmmakers continue to make fine works, adapting or creating stories not from comics or video games but exploring the human experience on our own planet.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 08:55PMThursday morning when I learned the Academy's list of nominees, I spent the rest of the day alternating between despair and rage. In fact, I have loved movies unabashedly since I was 18 mont…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:56AMThe long-awaited Lesbian ID is now available to American citizens, undocumented residents, and loud if wealthy non-American visitors. To find out whether you are eligible to receive your Les…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:54AMWhen we first meet Frannie, the protagonist of writer-director Liz Tuccillo's debut feature, Take Care, she's fresh from the hospital, arm in a sling, leg in a brace, being wrangled from a c…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 10:07PMI first met MB Caschetta more than 20 years ago when she was a student at Vassar College attending a reading I'd been invited to give. In a room filled with bright young lights she stood out…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:59PMThe lush new production of You Can't Take It With You boasts at least a half-dozen such turns, brimming to near-bursting from a piece that juggles slapstick and drama and somehow manages to …
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:17PMA surprise casting coup and an insider's glimpse behind the scenes: Dick Scanlan and Beth Malone discuss the road to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' contemporary reboot of Meredit…
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