Jeffrey Lesser

So, we have to wait six more weeks for the recording of THE LAST FIVE YEARS... This Sh-K-Boom release will be produced by Jeffrey Lesser (Rocky, Tick, Kristin, et al) and arrives in time for Tax Day. (April 15th for those Canadians reading this.) Look for a new business model in producing cast recordings with this one... Don't be too surprised if you find a logo or two on the back of the jewel case.

Fonsworth

But more important than anything else, a story of how times have hit us all hard... It seems that Fynsworth's brother, Fonsworth, is a go-fer to Puffy (P. Diddy). My how the mighty have fallen...

Goodbye Until Tomorrow

Review of The Last Five Years by Ken Mandelbaum

TB Theatre Review of The Last Five Years by Matthew Murray

The Godfadda Workout

Saw this show today. Any fan of The Godfather will love this one man show. Seth Isler spends the entire time running back and forth or hopping tables between characters. Quite an entertaining afternoon, especially if you take someone who is not a theatre fan but loves The Godfather.

AP Review of Last Five Years.

Novelist and an Actress Sharing a Leaky Boat

Ben Brantley's review.

Archive Import - Comment

Also mentioned around the campfire tonight is the release of the last HTML programers at Broadway Television Network. They were the final staffers that remained after BTN jettisoned the Theatre.com/BroadwayOnline crew. No one is sure who is keeping up their site as of now.

USA Today: Musical sings of the 'Last Five Years'

Story is played forward for him, backward for her

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City, 1990: Jason Robert Brown, a 20-year-old songwriter disillusioned with the stuffy academics of music school, moves to Greenwich Village with dreams of writing a Broadway musical.

Responding to Crisis, Art Must Look Beyond It

By ANNE MIDGETTE
The assumption that art should respond rapidly to crisis is common currency today. But that goes against the nature of artistic inspiration.

Abbey Lincoln, Maker of Her Own Genre

By LARA PELLEGRINELLI
A late bloomer, Abbey Lincoln ended up supplying singers, especially women, with an alternative to the male-oriented standards.

Laura Linney Stays Faithful to Her First Love, the Stage

In Theater Depicting History, Just How Far Can the Facts Be Bent?

All's Well With the World in the Globe Theater

How Cowboys and Cowgirls Get Into Step

Side by Side With Sidney Falco

Brian d'Arcy James had never seen the 1957 film "Sweet Smell of Success" when composer Marvin Hamlisch asked him to read for the then-embryonic stage musical in late 1998.

LAURA, BELLE

By BARBARA HOFFMAN
There are a few things Laura Linney would really rather not discuss: her hair, the many hunky films stars she's worked with, and her romances, which the Oscar-nominated actress calls "that wildly awkward area of my life."

A CRITIC'S JOB DISSECTED - BY A CRITIC

By CLIVE BARNES
Is there anyone so weak-livered or simple-minded that he or she has not come out of a theater, movie house or concert hall, read a book or even just watched television, then read a review of the event, taken a deep and mystified breath and angrily said:...

Kushner's Homebody/Kabul Closes in NYC, March 3; London, RI, CA Next

Last Few Weeks To Catch Star Quality in London

Eric Grode's STAGE TO SCREEN: Checking Out Chekhov

Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings Ends Off-Broadway

The Castle Crumbles: Off-Broadway Hit Closes March 3

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Last Five Years Opens Off-Broadway

Anita Louise Combe Joins West End Chicago

SDCF Abbott Award Goes to Director-Choreographer Stroman, March 3

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 3

Metamorphoses Offers $30 'Poolside' Seats

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with John McMartin

Thirty years after the original Follies, McMartin is back doing Stephen Sondheim on Broadway in Into the Woods.

Bagneris' Another Time

One Mo' Time, a vibrant, loving look at jazz greats of the twenties, returns to Broadway, conceived, written and starring the electrifying Vernel Bagneris.

Pool Cue: Metamorphoses Sets a High-Water Mark on Broadway

Metamorphoses has turned into the best known creation of the prolific Mary Zimmerman, who is a towering figure in Chicago theatre, visible enough nationally to win a MacArthur "Genius" gran…

Great Kate!: Kate Mulgrew Plays Katharine Hepburn in Tea at Five

One great Kate deserves another. In the Hartford Stage production of Tea at Five, "Star Trek Voyager"'s former Captain Janeway plays film legend Hepburn.