Nathan Lane

Goodman's Iceman Cometh, Starring Nathan Lane, Chills to the Core

Robert Bullen | Posted 05.08.2012

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Chicago truly is an amazing theatre town -- especially now, where we have two epic plays receiving landmark productions, and I've been lucky to see both of them.

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Brian Dennehy Talks The Iceman Cometh Over Manischewitz and Vodka

Mark Bazer | Posted 04.30.2012

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Brian Dennehy talked the meaning of art, explained his passion for Eugene O'Neil and told me my wife was more intelligent than me. It was perhaps the most fun I've had hosting The Interview Show, a monthly talk show we put on in Chicago and Brooklyn.

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The Best Servants in Movie History

Posted 05.29.2012

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With two "Snow White" films in the works, the question of "Who's the fairest of them all" will be especially apt in 2012. And while the Charlize Thero...

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WATCH: 'View' Audience Member Vomits During Live Show

Posted 03.06.2012

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Well, this was unfortunate. During Tuesday's "View," guest Nathan Lane grew visibly stunned when an audience member got sick during the show. Lane...

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'Late Show': Nathan Lane Mocks The GOP Candidates

Posted 02.29.2012

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Nathan Lane stopped by "Late Show" (Weeknights, 11:35 p.m. EST on CBS) Tuesday night and delivered his assessment of the GOP candidates running for th...

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PHOTOS: Octavia & Dustin Tell Intimate Stories On Stage

HuffingtonPost.com | Sasha Bronner | Posted 02.18.2012

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Stories are often told in Los Angeles. They range from you'll-never-guess-who-I-saw-at-Urth to the variety of comedies, dramas and fantasies that we s...

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Nights On Earth: Conversations with Vince Mendoza and Elf's Matthew Sklar

Mike Ragogna | Posted 01.25.2012

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According to Vince Mendoza, the idea of his latest record was partly to embrace the various musicians that he's met over the years and to invite his old friends to participate in his music.

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Hamptons Journal: Celebrity Autobiography at Guild Hall/The Tale of the Allergist's Wife at Mulford Farm

Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.29.2011

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Anticipating great gusts and flooding, many Hamptonites chose the real-life drama of celebrity lives as read by celebrities over the real-life drama of storms at Guild Hall last Friday night.

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I Crack Wise With The Sopranos, My Dad Does Not With The Real Deal

Binky Philips | Posted 07.09.2011

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So, I have this friend... He was a two-or-three-times-a-week customer at the record store I ran in the East Village back the 1980s (http://www.huffin...

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A Nutcracker to Shun

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the years, I've seen some pretty awful movies. None, however, has been as expensive, as overproduced, as idiotic, as appalling, or as stupefyingly reprehensible as the The Nutcracker in 3D.

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Watch: Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Theatre Turns on Its Lights

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stephen Sondheim, the creator of Sweeney Todd and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum joined the ranks of theatrical legends with the naming of a Broadway theatre in his honor.

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Green Day's American Idiot Underscores Broadway's Current Non-Star Practices

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Box-office magnets like American Idiot will keep coming alongside shows with someone like Nathan Lane and whatever gobsmacking star salary he gets.

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Stage Door: The Scottsboro Boys, The Addams Family

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Scottsboro Boys is an astounding production. In the guise of a minstrel show, it tells the tragic story of nine black boys falsely charged with raping two white women in Alabama in 1931.

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Tony Nominations: The Crime of the Century? Well, That's Exaggerating a Bit.

Cara Joy David | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Addams Family got robbed. That is a rather shocking statement, as usually the only things you read about Addams in the press are negative comments about the production.

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Mike Birbiglia Talks Red Carpets, His Awkwardness, And Dust-Bustering In His Sleep

Rip Empson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whenever people say, 'wait, how come you're not funny?' Or something like that, I'm always like, 'if I said to you casually the stuff that I say on stage, it would get really uncomfortable.'

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What Have You Got to Give? How to Add Action to Hope

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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America's largest contributors to charity are not the rich, but everyday hard-working men and women like yourself.

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Tevye's Descendant to Sing "If I Were A Gay Man" on Broadway

Emily Bracken | Posted 05.25.2011

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"If I Were A Gay Man" lyrics from a Fiddler on the Roof spinoff. The story follows Tevye's great-great-great granddaughter, Rachel, a single Jewish woman in her 30's who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth In Broadway's 'Addams Family'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — "The Addams Family" has found its merry macabre menagerie for Broadway. The show's producers say Nathan Lane will play Gomez and Beb...

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A Modest Proposal

Pres. Charles H.P. Smith, aka David Mamet | Posted 05.25.2011

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What about if, in our ongoing contest of seemingly irreconcilable differences, instead of our interminable "legislative process," each side merely elected a Champion, and they "spun the dreidl?"

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The Electoral Season

Pres. Charles H.P. Smith, aka David Mamet | Posted 05.25.2011

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My opponents are yapping at my heels. I have been asked if I wish them ill. No, I do not wish them ill. If I wished them ill I would withdraw from the race. For this job, finally, is an unmitigated pain in the ass.

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David Mamet On His Political New Play And Hillary

NY Mag | Boris Kachka | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the star of The Producers decides to play a U.S. president in a Broadway play written by David Mamet (November, opening January 17), is it any wo...

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