"I hope the piece can be a real learning experience for people to learn about something they know so little about," the two-time Tony Award winner said yesterday during a press conference at…
Jacqui Parker is well aware that it's risky to produce a theater festival in January, when a cold snap or snowstorm can put it in jeopardy.
"But," the Elliot Norton Award-winning actress and administrator said, "people need to go out; and, like I say, January may be the coldest month of the year, but we've got the hottest theater in town."
Mrs. Malaprop has a way with words.
"She's very gaseous," says Mary Louise Wilson, who plays the classic comic character in the Huntington Theatre Company's production of "The Rivals," beginning tonight.
Film star Kathleen Turner, stage star Bill Irwin and award-winning playwright Edward Albee came to Boston yesterday to talk about the pre-Broadway run of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" which bows at the Wilbur Theatre for three weeks starting Feb. 10.
"This time," said Albee, "we'll be doing the entire play."
The Marquis de Sade? A German transvestite?
Pulitzer and Tony award-winning playwright Doug Wright obviously isn't interested in stock characters. But his ability to find the humanity in wonderfully flawed people gives them astonishing life.
Facing a financial squeeze, Merrimack Repertory Theatre has laid off managing director Lisa Merrill-Burzak and will raise ticket prices next season if operating costs cannot be covered throu…
"This movie is a wacked-out western," says Nicholas Van Hoogstraten, book writer and originator of the idea of turning the 1954 film "Johnny Guitar" into a musical.
With Janine LaManna.