Where have the playwrights gone?

Playwrights have shuttled between Hollywood & the theater for decades. The commute is looking more attractive lately.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Where have the playwrights gone? by Kim Campbell

Playwrights have shuttled between Hollywood and the theater for decades. But the commute is looking more attractive lately, with the poor economy affecting the arts, and mass media growing i…

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

He's got Broadway covered by Leslie Talmadge

He's dressed everyone from Melanie Griffith to Mick Jagger. Meet Tony-winning designer William Ivey Long.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Laurence Olivier and I by Clinton Trowbridge

Thanks to American Theater Web for the two links above.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

He has an ear for musicians' lives by Gregory M. Lamb

Actor-pianist brings Chopin and Gershwin to life in his plays
Hershey Felder.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Thank you... Next! by Leslie Talmadge

Endless auditions, rare callbacks, working for pennies. Welcome to a New York actor's life. But Christine Herzog insists she's not leaving.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

How I became a Chekhov bookworm in the Big Apple by William J. Dean

Having arranged a series of three seminars on the short stories of Chekhov, I am making use of every available moment, day and night, to read the assigned stories, lest I disgrace myself at …

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

May he show you to your seat? by Gregory M. Lamb

Jay and Cindy Gutterman have faced many ups and downs as theater producers in New York. Their latest off-Broadway show, 'Hank Williams: Lost Highway,' has garnered awards.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the two links above!

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

From tuxedos to 'Tarzan' by Gregory M. Lamb

As a Chinese-American, David Henry Hwang is used to being tugged at by dueling identities.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A play's long journey by Tony Vellela

Addiction, tuberculosis, strife - 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' is Broadway's most unlikely crowd-pleaser.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Searching for next Seinfeld by Gloria Goodale

"That's what our job really is, to push and push," says casting director Sharon Klein. "You walk in, and they have such specific views of what they're looking for -- it's our job to change t…

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Actress leaps from local theater to Broadway by Gregory M. Lamb

On stage in "Gypsy," Kate Reinders plays a repressed, angry teenager forced to headline a vaudeville act by her domineering stage mother, Mama Rose.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the links to the Christian Science Monitor articles.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

These divas drive the show by Iris Fanger

In the current world of Broadway diva-dom, Bernadette Peters and Chita Rivera are burning up center stage in two demanding roles.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

New British musicals 'will rock you' by Frank Scheck

Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Theater of one by Gregory M. Lamb

One-man shows are perhaps the toughest act in theater. But these performers say one isn't the loneliest number.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the two links above.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Drama unfolds in the life of a burlesque theater by Gregory M. Lamb

The old Gaiety was one of 15 theaters to grace Boston's Washington Street. Today, the auditorium is abandoned but intact, and an 11th-hour effort to restore it - rather than raze it for hous…

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Stage-struck at first sight by Iris Fanger

Clare Higgins, the British actress starring on Broadway in "Vincent in Brixton," was 14 years old before she ever saw a play. The convent school she attended took her class to Stratford-on-Avon to see Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale."
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A chorus of musicians' complaints by Ron Scherer and Stacey Vanek Smith

The Broadway strike ends, but a wider discord persists
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A lasting Irish drama by Valerie Summers

The Abbey Theatre was built to showcase the work of irish writers and actors, but it did much more.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A golden couple gives back to the arts community by Gloria Goodale

Ask veteran actress and writer Ruby Dee what she is proudest of in her lengthy career, and she says it is the choice she and her husband, Ossie Davis, made for their golden wedding anniversa…

SOURCE: csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Blind actors overcome limitations by Gregory M. Lamb

Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

For him, the play's the thing by Gregory M. Lamb

Profile of Simon Russell Beale.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A career bookended by Broadway by Tony Vellela

Forty years ago, she was Broadway's reigning princess. Now, after an admittedly self-imposed exile, Patty Duke has returned to the New York stage in "Oklahoma!"

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Built for the Bard by Gregory M. Lamb

With a thatched roof and no lights or indoor plumbing, this is theater as Shakespeare would have liked it.

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Opera goes neon by Gregory M. Lamb

'Our mission ... was, "How do you make it as much like the experience the audiences had in the 1890s?" ' - 'Moulin Rouge' director Baz Luhrmann, on his adaptation of Puccini's 'La Bohème,' which opens this weekend on Broadway
Thanks to ElleWhy on All That Chat for the link!

SOURCE: www.csmonitor.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑