Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Molière in the Park garnered praise for Zoom productions of “Tartuffe” and other plays. Putting on an outdoor show in Brooklyn has been another matter.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMMonday, June 3, 2019
Campaigning for a Tony Award already involves a nonstop schedule of events, photo opportunities and jostling to best position each show on television broadcasts, in articles and at galas. Th…
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Laurie Metcalf has a photo taped on her dressing room door of Hillary Clinton in sunglasses checking her Blackberry. Clinton looks cool, even imperious, but that persona is not in the house …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:55PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Before Adam Driver opened “Burn This” on Broadway on Tuesday night, he had earned his first Oscar nomination for Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman.” He also had devotees from his Emmy-no…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:10PMMonday, April 1, 2019
When does 28 equal 12? Or 41 equal 8? And how is it even possible that 22, 25 and 35 could all equal 11? The answer: When you are casting grown-ups to play kids onstage. Sure, boys will stil…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:30AMThursday, January 17, 2019
Rafael West Valles, who plays Bobby Carney on Broadway in “The Ferryman,” would not talk for this article. Neither would Sean Frank Coffey, who also plays Bobby Carney. Ditto for Annie S…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:33AMThursday, October 25, 2018
How and why has that hunk of inhumanity been reanimated so often? Mel Brooks, Kenneth Branagh and others put the pieces together.
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For playwrights, productions that follow the premiere of their shows can be both exhilarating and frightening as others interpret their words.
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Raccoons, owls and rabbits may crash the stage and steal the scene in Shakespeare productions held in the great summer outdoors, but for many actors, there’s a more aggravating intruder ho…
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Thursday, August 25, 2016
While the sport takes center stage next week with the start of the United States Open, the sport is also appearing on the theatrical stage with surprising frequency.
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The director, who has brought Bret Easton Ellis’s novel to Broadway, explains why he’s drawn to the dark stories of Patrick Bateman, Faustus and Macbeth“I am drawn to theatre as an art…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMMonday, May 25, 2015
With this year’s Super Bowl on the horizon, some of the theater world’s biggest sports fans open up about their other passion.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMJason Patric shepherds his late father's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, That Championship Season, back to Broadway -- by starring in it.
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An ambitious project to create a short film for each of Shakespeare’s sonnets is underway, with each movie shot at a different New York City location.
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Renée Fleming, David Hyde Pierce and Vanessa Hudgens make their Broadway debuts this season, onstage and off. The showbusiness veterans of opera, TV and film share why they decide…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 16, 2015
In honor of Presidents' Day, Playbill.com revisits conversations with seven actors who have played the President of the United States in different plays.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, November 2, 2014
Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper, whose devotion to the play The Elephant Man dates back to his studies at the Actors Studio, fulfills a passion project by finally performing John Merric…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
For Hedwig and the Angry Inch to make the leap from the relative obscurity of downtown theater to the bright lights of Broadway, the show needed a few touch-ups and strategic nips and tucks.…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00AMMonday, May 12, 2014
Toni Collette and Marisa Tomei stop being polite and start getting real in Will Eno's new play about friends and neighbors, love and life, The Realistic Joneses.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, May 10, 2014
Michael Shannon chats with Playbill.com about returning to the play The Killer at Theatre for a New Audience.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, February 17, 2014
Playbill.com chats with seven actors who have played the President of the United States in different plays.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMWednesday, December 25, 2013
Thomas Meehan, Marsha Norman, Susan Stroman and Stephen Flaherty chat with Playbill.com about adapting popular Hollywood movies into musicals for the Broadway stage.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, November 22, 2013
After work on Broadway, film and opera, Tony-winning director Julie Taymor returns to William Shakespeare, directing A Midsummer Night's Dream for Theatre for a New Audience.&n…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, October 30, 2013
The director and actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson, an eminent interpreter of August Wilson, talks about playing Wilson in the playwright’s one-man show, “How I Learned What I Learned.” …
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Jeffrey Horowitz, Theatre for a New Audience's artistic director, shares the stories behind the building of TFANA's brand-new Brooklyn location — The Polonsky Shakespeare Cente…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, September 13, 2013
Playbill.com chats with Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Anthony Chisholm, Leslie Uggams, Ebony Jo-Ann and Roslyn Ruff about working with legendary playwright August Wilson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, September 8, 2013
Will Barnet, an actor and street performer, is taking Shakespeare into New York City parks, performing soliloquies for passers-by.
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With the involvement of other theaters in the West Village, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is setting the stage for the simultaneous production of a five-play cycle by Lucy Thurber. &n…
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Actor-playwright Jesse Eisenberg, actor-writer of Off-Broadway's The Revisionist, continues exploring his own life through the true "social network" theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, December 18, 2012
Laurie Metcalf's passion for the stage continues with a return to Broadway in a play that brought her acclaim — Sharr White's The Other Place. This time, daughter Zoe Perry is …
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