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Neil LaBute and John Guare Off Broadway

Regina Weinreich | Posted 06.13.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: John Guare, Witold Gombrowicz, Fred Weller, Neil Labute, Kurt Weill, David Halberstam, 3 Kinds of Exile, Elaine Stritch, Neil Pepe, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Josh Hamilton, Martin Moran, Elzbieta Erased, Jenna Fischer, Meryl Streep, Funiage, Leslie Bibb, Omar Sangare, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

New plays by the eminent American playwrights Neil LaBute and John Guare are an event. In Reasons to be Happy at the Lucille Lortel Theater, LaBute, w...

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Tom Hanks: A Shoo-In for the Tony Award

Liz Smith | Posted 05.02.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Tom Hanks Lucky Guy, Elaine Stritch, Actors Fun Gala, Deborah Harry, Stella by Starlight Gala, Elaine Stritch Scholarship Fund, Entertainment News
Liz Smith

The Stella by Starlight gala is set now for June 10 and those who run this annual charity to keep the Stella Adler Studio going have elected a grand "Stella" graduate to honor -- Elaine Stritch!

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Highlights From the Tribeca Film Festival

Zach Udko | Posted 04.24.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Emma Roberts, Film Reviews, Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch Shoot Me, Zoe Kazan, The Pretty One, In God We Trust, Tribeca Film Festival, Independent Film, Victor Kubicek, Entertainment News, Derek Anderson, Eleanor Squillari, Curtis Hanson, Entertainment News
Zach Udko

Fraud, redemption, suicide, fear of failure, the ineluctable dance with death, alcoholism, and the addictive joy of creating art -- these are a few of the recurring themes in some of the highlights from this year's Tribeca Film Festival.

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'I'd Like To Be Doing Something Else But Complaining About My Life'

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 04.21.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Shoot Me Documentary, Video, Documentary Elaine Stritch, Shoot Me Elaine Stritch, Documentary, Elaine Stritch, Shoot Me, Elaine Stritch Shoot Me, Shoot Me Documentary Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch Documentary, Entertainment News

NEW YORK -- Elaine Stritch would rather get on with it. The 88-year-old Broadway legend and New York icon – as much a fixture as the Statue of ...

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On The Next '30 Rock' ... Kermit, Florence Henderson & More

Posted 12.03.2012 | TV
Read More: Florence Henderson, TV Canada, 30 Rock Kermit, Video, 30 Rock, 30 Rock My Whole Life Is Thunder, 30 Rock Ending, Elaine Stritch, Kermit the Frog, TV Spoilers, Fall TV, Reality-Free, TV News

"30 Rock" will welcome Kermit the Frog, Florence Henderson, Gayle King and Elaine Stritch in the Thursday, December 6 episode. Titled "My Whole Li...

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'Star Wars' Vet Gets 'Modern'

Posted 11.14.2012 | TV
Read More: TV Canada, Billy Dee Wiliams, Rebecca Mader, Grey's Anatomy, Roma Maffia, Video, 30 Rock, Elaine Stritch, Nathan Lane, Modern Family, TV News

"Modern Family" is ringing in the New Year with Billy Dee Williams and Nathan Lane. According to EW, "Star Wars" alum Billy Dee Williams will gue...

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Nothing Could Be Finer Than an Evening With Barbara Cook

George Heymont | Posted 11.03.2012 | Arts
Read More: Florence Henderson, Angela Lansbury, Carol Channing, Carol Lawrence, The Rrazz Room, Elaine Stritch, Shirley Jones, Janis Paige, Candide, Julie Andrews, Barbara Cook, The Music Man, Helen Gallagher, She Loves Me, Plain and Fancy, Chita Rivera, Carnegie Hall, Video, Arts News
George Heymont

Today, many singers who are a fraction of Barbara Cook's age wish they could sing with the wisdom, phrasing, and musical intuition of an artist whose voice has maintained its sweetness and purity for so many years

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Gossip Fades As Politics Heat Up -- Still, We Have Naked Harry, Ronan Farrow & The Inimitable Elaine Stritch

Liz Smith | Posted 10.28.2012 | Celebrity
Read More: Ronan Farrow Nancy Sinatra, Claire McCaskill, Todd Akin, Prince Harry Nude Photos, Elaine Stritch, Ronan Farrow, Prince Harry, Celebrity News
Liz Smith

Having a party? Request all your guests give up their cell phones. Also the bouncers, waiters, bartenders too.

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Rrazz Room Rendezvous: Anniversary Gala Lures in Top Acts for Stellar Cause

Greg Archer | Posted 05.20.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Rrazz Room, Mary Wilson, Linda Lavin, Cece-Peniston, Elaine Stritch, Tommy Igoe, Hotel Nikko, Slidepollajax, San Francisco Nightclubs, Rrazz Room Gala 2012, Rrazz Room Nightclub, Rrazz Room San Francisco, San Francisco Impact, San Francisco Around Town, San Francisco News
Greg Archer

Having stormed onto the scene four years ago, owners of the Rrazz Room Robert Kotonly and Rory Paull had a vision to take San Francisco's nightclub scene to the next level.

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Dog Ears Music: Born in February Playlist

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 04.04.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Gene Pitney, Johnny Winter, Claude François, James Dean, Dexter Gordon, Eva Cassidy, Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), Carole King, George Harrison, Elaine Stritch, Marian Anderson, Tim Buckley, Jackie Gleason (With His Orchestra), J. Geils, Shakira, Eubie Blake, Sonny Bono, Leontyne Price (With Orchestral Accompaniment), Claudio Arrau, Fabian, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week we review albums by Jackie Gleason (with his orchestra), George Harrison, Dexter Gordon, Shakira and other artists.

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Elaine Kaufman Memorial: The Salon and Its Resaurateur Remembered

Regina Weinreich | Posted 02.01.2012 | Home
Read More: Showbiz411?S Roger Friedman, Chris Hegedus, Carol Miller, Father Pete Colapietro, Elaine Kaufman, Elaine Stritch, Ron Abel, D. A. Pennebaker, Carol Higgins Clark, Dick Cavett, Liz Smith, Lucie Arnaz, Michele Lee, Gay Talese, Joe Allen, Pete Khoury, Fred Rappaport, Home News
Regina Weinreich

When Elaine Kaufman died last December 3, she left a city of broken hearts. For months, "Elaine's" lingered on, a nostalgic haven for "regulars," but many still had to admit, Elaine's was simply not the same without Elaine.

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When the Claws Come Out

George Heymont | Posted 12.03.2011 | Arts
Read More: Mame, Angela Lansbury, Film, Carol Burnett, Anyone Can Whistle, Ludivine Sagnier, Love Crime, Ruthie Henshall, Elaine Stritch, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim, Bea Arthur, Kristin Scott Thomas, Arts News
George Heymont

Who doesn't love a good cat fight? I'm not talking about old-fashioned ladies mud wrestling or a trailer trash hair-pulling contest. I'm referring to the kind of fight where acid thoughts fly across the stage on malicious darts guided by a frightening level of intelligence.

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Stage Door: A Little Night Music

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Theater, Musical Theater, Broadway, Elaine Stritch, Entertainment, Stephen Sondheim, Bernadette Peters, New York News
Fern Siegel

When Bernadette Peters steps on stage at the Walter Kerr, she imbues the sophisticated Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical with a playful, seductive air.

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On the Culture Front: Arcade Fire, The Original Copy, The Black Keys and A Little Night Music

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: A Little Night Music, Angela Lansbury, Music, Marcel Duchamp, Theater, Elaine Stritch, Tim Burton, Stephen Sondheim, New York, Trevor Nunn, Bernadette Peters, Black Keys, Bruce Nauman, Arcade Fire, Walker Evans, Marina Abramovic, Museum of Modern Art, Catherine Zeta-Jones, New York News
Chris Kompanek

Both Arcade Fire and The Black Keys sound as good, or better, live, so I try to catch them when they come into town.

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On the Culture Front: Sting at the Met, She & Him, Wolf Parade, and The Pretty Trap

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Zooey Deschanel, Metropolitan Opera, Skeeter Davis, Music, Sting, Theater, Elaine Stritch, Tennessee Williams, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, New York, Terminal 5, The Police, Michael Riedel, Ray Manzarek, She & Him, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, M. Ward, Wolf Parade, David Byrne, New York News
Chris Kompanek

The Pretty Trap is a short one-act by Tennessee Williams that takes its title from the overbearing matriarch's belief that "all women are a pretty trap."

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My First Time Seeing Sondheim's A Little Night Music

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: A Little Night Music, Ingmar Bergman, Elaine Stritch, Broadway, Stephen Sondheim, Bernadette Peters, Mozart, Alexander Hanson, New York News
Albert Imperato

Last night, a writer friend of mine gave me an unexpected and extremely moving gift: he took me to my first performance of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.

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First Nighter: Thoroughly Entertaining Sutton Foster

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Angela Lansbury, Annie, Paul McCartneyMichael Rafter, Little Women, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked, Bebe Neuwirth, Patti LuPone, Noel Coward, "An Evening With Sutton Foster, Elaine Stritch, Christine Lavin, Kevin Kuhn, Stephen Sondheim, The Addams Family, Mark Waldrop, Bernadette Peters, Catherine Zeta Jones, John Lennon, " Cafe Carlyle, The Drowsy Chaperone, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Young Frankenstein, Donna Murphy, Sutton Foster, Jeff Blumenthal, Shrek the Musical, New York News
David Finkle

If you had to pinpoint the leading leading-lady in musicals today, you'd have to say there's no contest: It's Sutton Foster.

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TCM Classic Film Fest Debuts in NYC With Mankiewicz's All About Eve at the Ziegfeld

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Norman Lloyd, Kenneth L. Geist, Gary Merrill, Robert Osborne, Thelma Ritter, All About Eve, The Good Earth, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Elaine Stritch, Bette Davis, Luise Rainer, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm, New York News
Penelope Andrew

All About Eve (1950) was screened free to the public at the Ziegfeld Theatre last Tuesday. It kicked off Turner Classic Movies' first-ever classic film festival here in New York City.

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Bernadette Peters, Broadway Divas And The NY Philharmonic Celebrate Sondheim's 80th Birthday

AP | MICHAEL KUCHWARA | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Avery Fisher Hall, Donna Murphy, Patti LuPone, Lincoln Center, Audra McDonald, Elaine Stritch, Stephen Sondheim, New York, New York City, Bernadette Peters, Marin Mazzie, New York News

NEW YORK — The ladies in red brought down the house. Six Broadway divas, spanning several generations of musical theater, pretty much tore up L...

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Elaine Stritch in the Stephen Sondheim Stretch

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Elaine Stritch, Cafe Carlyle, At Home at the Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin' Sondheim...One Song at a Time," Stephen Sondheim, Rob Bowman, Jonathan Tunick, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, Company, Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, a Little Night Music, West Side Story, "Send in the Clowns," ", Entertainment News
David Finkle

What Elaine Stritch does inAt Home at the Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin' Sondheim -- is kick off the best entertainment in New York. She doesn't merely sing her songs -- she takes on a role with each of them.

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Eli Wallach: A Good Seducer

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Elaine Stritch, Ann Jackson, Tennessee Williams, Ellen Burstyn, Bryce Dallas Howard, Eli Wallach, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

At an evening held in honor of Tennessee Williams, actor Eli Wallach remembered that the Catholic Church threatened to excommunicate anyone who saw Williams' Baby Doll; the film sold out for three weeks straight.

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Elaine Stritch -- An Evening of Fire and Wisdom

Adam Hanft | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: At Home at the Carlyle: Elaine Stritch, Upper West Side, A Little Night Music, Anyone Can Whistle, Jonathan Tunick, Jule Styne, Elaine Stritch, Rob Bowman, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Send in the Clowns, Gypsy, Company, New York News
Adam Hanft

You go to cabaret for an impossible alchemy of exposed emotion, phrasing, the occasional clink of a champagne flute, an evening of enriched uranium. You go to cabaret for Elaine Stritch.

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Lucky Hightails From 5th Avenue To Barneys New York!

Wendy Diamond | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Valerie Diker, Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, Rodney Dangerfield, Comedy Central, Donald Trump, Elaine Stritch, Westminster, New York, Whoopi Goldberg, Dachshund, Whoopie, Healthy Living News
Wendy Diamond

Lucky and I celebrated an intimate gathering at philanthropist Valerie Diker's apartment on 5th Avenue to discuss the plans for Best Friends Animal Sa...

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