29 stories by "Laura Hedli"
Playbill.com talks to the Tony winners on set about their characters on Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
What to expect from the highly-anticipated Netflix reboot and the Tony-winning talent involved in an on screen musical.
The Tony-winning composer reveals the inspiration behind her Stars Hollow musical in the Netflix reboot.
After launching The Scottsboro Boys at the Vineyard Theatre six years ago, writer Colman Domingo rejoins director Susan Stroman and actress Sharon Washington for his newest work: Dot.
How do you translate the language and culture of a Danish play for American audiences?When they discovered Andreas Garfield’s play Home Sweet Home, about a Danish soldier returning fro…
In his new Off Broadway play, the artist makes his audience the starThere are certain shows that stay with you long after you leave the theatre, and Spalding Gray's Interviewing the Audience…
Actors Center director Rodney Robb has helped train lots of aspiring performers in Philly. Manager Edie Robb, his wife of 40 years, has helped a few become stars.
Despite the closing of 15 Broadway shows last month, 2011 has thus far been marked by relative prosperity on the Great White Way.
Charles Fuller’s One Night confronts sexual assault in our armed forces — Last year, the military prosecuted approximately 300 cases of sexual assault or impropriety, but that…
A film and a play explore the boxer’s legacy — Most of us know Muhammad Ali was a world-class boxer, and some of us know he was stripped of his championship titles and essentiall…
HED: Last Exit From Park Slope Matthew Freeman wanted to create a satire of Park Slope, Brooklynites. Since these folks are his neighbors in real life, he knows them well and thought a roast…
Kate Mulgrew and Kathleen Chalfant navigate a play’s remarkable language — Welcome to Building Character, TDF’s ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles …
Inside the imagination of “AliceGraceAnon” Note: Following Hurricane Sandy AliceGraceAnon will re-open on Saturday, November 3, with a special “re-opening party” foll…
The “Harvey” star finds inspiration in her family’s business Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles Acting is always…
The touring musical "Bring It On" makes its Broadway debut at the St. James Theatre.
In “You Better Sit Down,” the company interviews their own parents The Civilians wanted to write a play about divorce. That much they knew. “I remember being incensed by th…
A playwright crafts Broadway’s “End of the Rainbow” Peter Quilter started writing End of the Rainbow in 2001, and now that it’s in previews at Broadway’s Belasc…
Qui Nguyen celebrates his family with rebellious style Sometimes it takes years to find a way into a story, especially when it’s personal. Qui Nguyen’s grandmother died the day h…
“CQ/CX” mines the metaphors in Jayson Blair’s story In his incendiary interview with The New York Observer, Jayson Blair is quoted as saying: “So Jayson Blair the hum…
As theater companies turn to trailers to promote their shows, producing the videos is still a challenge.
Honoring Jimmy Smits, Matthew Goldstein, and BEAT When he started at Brooklyn College in the late 70s, Jimmy Smits was an education major, but by the time he graduated in 1980, he had switch…
On a typical day Ms. Caplan may train Nikki M. James, a 2011 Tony Award Winner for "Book of Mormon"; Hunter Parrish, now starring in "Godspell"; or even Stephen Colbert.
The Kander-Ebb-McNally musical arrives tonight in New York — A few days after The Visit premiered in Chicago in September 2001, Terrence McNally remembers flying back to New York on a …
Thoughts from the stars of “Wild Animals You Should Know” Now that they’re in their twenties, the stars of Wild Animals You Should Know feel prepared to play teenagers.…
How do you translate the made-up words in a Swedish play? Swedish-Tunisian playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri rarely makes a simple statement. He manipulates the mechanics of language—the…
