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High Honors For Actress Deavere Smith
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Saturday, February 09, 2013
The Scottish Play (The Olivier Way)
February 9, 2013 British stage and screen legend Laurence Olivier had always hoped to produce his own film version of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. Now, decades after Olivier's death, a researcher has stumbled across his lost screen treatment of "the Scottish play."
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Monkey See
Ann Harada, From 'Smash' To Stepsisterhood
February 5, 2013 Smash's dauntless stage manager (Ann Harada) returns to TV tonight — though the actress herself will be on Broadway in Cinderella.
Rebecca Luker Has 'Got Love' For Jerome Kern
February 5, 2013 The Broadway star has a new album, I Got Love: Songs of Jerome Kern, which features songs by the great Broadway composer. The collection came out of a live show Luker performed at the Manhattan club 54 Below.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
25 Years Strong, 'Phantom Of The Opera' Kills And Kills Again
January 27, 2013 Invited guests packed the Majestic Theater on Saturday night to celebrate the longest-running Broadway musical ever. Times have changed, but the Phantom, that tortured genius who haunts the Paris Opera House, creating havoc and causing the chandelier to fall, has endured.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
A Cooler Roof For A New 'Cat'
January 17, 2013 A Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' iconic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may feature big names, but it aims for a quiet kind of authenticity. Director Rob Ashford asked his cast to take their characters off the pedestal of dramatic history and put them back in the scene.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
'Adventure Hour' Is A New Take On Old-Time Radio
January 10, 2013 The Thrilling Adventure Hour is both an update and an homage to old radio dramas. Created eight years ago by college friends Ben Blacker and Ben Acker, the pseudo radio show features actors reading from scripts in front of a live nightclub audience.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Bobby Cannavale, At Home On Broadway
January 9, 2013 The actor, who's currently starring in Glenngarry Glen Ross opposite Al Pacino, has been acting for the stage since he was a teenager in Union City, N.J. "It was the only thing I ever wanted to do, really," he says.
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
A Vet's Haunted Homecoming In 'Water By The Spoonful'
January 8, 2013 Quiara Alegria Hudes' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama opens off-Broadway on Tuesday. The play is the second in a trilogy focused on an injured Iraq veteran named Elliot — a character based on Hudes' cousin. "I just remember the instant I saw him, there was just something changed in his eye," she says.
Monday, January 07, 2013
Friday, December 21, 2012
Spirit Of The Season
Broadway's Profit-Turning, Crowd-Pleasing Christmas Story
December 21, 2012 With hordes of tourists descending on New York for the Christmas season, Broadway is looking to turn a profit — by staging limited-run holiday musicals like A Christmas Story and Elf. But with production costs so high, how can these shows make money back? The answer, it turns out, is complicated.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Europe
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Story Plays Out On Stage
December 10, 2012 Former IMF leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of sexual assault by a hotel maid, has all but vanished from the public sphere in France, but he remains a subject of fascination. A play imagining what could have transpired in that hotel suite in May 2011 has just opened in Paris.
