Two-time Tony Award nominee Mary Testa will perform her latest one-woman show, Classically Speaking, Sept. 20 at 7 PM and Sept. 27 at 9:30 PM at the Laurie Beechman Theatre.
What to do about that pesky cousin? Behead her? Have her killed? Let her rot in jail? Those questions face Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart, now on Broadway in a bold revival from London's Donmar Warehouse. Friedrich Schiller's drama, adapted by Peter Oswald, depicts shifting loyalties by all the queens' men, but this slice of history is all about the leading ladies.
Rachel Crothers' 1923 play shows us what it is like to be a young, vibrant American woman in that year. Forget "Millie"; this is "Thoroughly Modern Mary," and there's a lot more to her than …
Mary Stuart, which opened last night in a production from London's Donmar Warehouse, is a riveting showcase for Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter—two towering actresses in a monumentally entertaining regina smackdown.
This month we chat with two-time Tony nominee (On the Town, 42nd Street) Mary Testa, who plays the recurring role of Sophia in the Whoopi Goldberg sitcom, "Whoopi" (NBC, Tuesday, 8:30 PM ET), and we also look back at what was happening on television 50 years ago, and how it related to Broadway.
Two of England's premier actresses, Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter, have returned Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart to Broadway after a 40-year absence.
