Jude Law Preps Hamlet For Broadway Debut
Maybe he is just a good actor, but Mr. Law appears convincingly cool and unfazed by any burdens that he might or might not be feeling. In a pair of in...
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Jeremy Piven's Latest Fish Story: I Could Have Had A Heart Attack! (VIDEO)
Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment
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Almost nine months later, Jeremy Piven is still explaining his departure from Broadway's Speed-the-Plow following a bout of mercury poison coupled wit...
The Remarkable Barney Simon
Michael Kaiser | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
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Barney Simon was the founder and artistic director of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, where for several decades, he produced and directed many of the most important works of indigenous South African theater.
Mike Birbiglia Talks Red Carpets, His Awkwardness, And Dust-Bustering In His Sleep
Rip Empson | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home
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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.'
Mighty Movie Podcast Exclusive: Spike Lee & Stew on Passing Strange: The Movie
Dan Persons | Posted 09.19.2009 | Entertainment
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I got a chance to sit down with Spike Lee and singer/songwriter Stew to discuss the New York musical hit, Passing Strange.
One Smart Blonde
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment
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As in true Hollywood fashion, Elle gets her man (the right one) and happy endings are doled out all around to the deserving, the audience stands and cheers and the curtain falls.
Straight Up News on Gay Plays
David Finkle | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment
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Two plays opened recently in Manhattan in which gay love affairs are observed with keen and perceptive eyes and ears -- Geoffrey Nauffts's Next Fall and Daniel Talbott's Slipping.
Frank Sinatra Musical Premiering This Fall
AP | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — American musical theater's latest collaborators – Twyla Tharp and Frank Sinatra. Atlanta's Alliance Theatre says it will prese...
Matthew Modine To Play Matthew Modine On Stage
AP | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Talk about typecasting. Matthew Modine (moh-DEEN') will portray a fictionalized version of himself in "Matthew Modine Saves the Alpa...
Athol Fugard: Art Battling Apartheid and Aids
Brad Schreiber | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
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Fugard's indignation at the wrongs of the world is tempered with a humility and graciousness that is truly striking.
FutureFest, Dayton's New-Play Competition, Thrives
David Finkle | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment
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The fabulous invalid -- as theater has been termed for decades -- is alive, well and dancing a jig in Dayton.
Off Broadway Shows To See
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 08.28.2009 | New York
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I'd be shocked if Ruined doesn't get a shot at Broadway soon.
Convict Theater: Italian Transvestite Cons Perform Alice In Wonderland
New York Times | Posted 08.23.2009 | World
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As a sound-system blasted a cha-cha-cha, the men began to dance. Wearing outlandish costumes with oversize hats and wigs, and boots with 15-centimeter...
The U.K. National Theatre's Phedre Could Change the Reach of Theater -- or Not
Divina Infusino | Posted 07.23.2009 | Entertainment
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Live theater has no natural digital companion. The U.K. National Theatre's production of Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren, has been an attempt to change that.
Alicia Silverstone To Join Laura Linney On Broadway
AP | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment
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NEW YORK — Alicia Silverstone will join Laura Linney on Broadway this season. They will star in "Time Stands Still," a play by Donald Margulies...
Stage Door: Thérèse Raquin
Fern Siegel | Posted 08.17.2009 | Entertainment
Thanks to Jim Petosa's sharp direction, this thoughtful production successfully captures the hallucinatory world of guilt.
The Public Theater's Presentation of "Twelfth Night"
Daniel Menaker | Posted 08.14.2009 | New York
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The Public Theater's presentation of "Twelfth Night," starring Anne Hathaway and Raul Esparza, has closed. What a superbly home-grown triumph this has been!
Tom, Katie And Suri Go To The Theater (PHOTOS)
Posted 08.05.2009 | Entertainment
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The Cruise family is down under at the moment, and Sunday Tom, Katie and Suri went to the stage production of 'Jersey Boy' in Melbourne, Australia. B...
Gender Bias in Theatre -- Digging a Little Deeper
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment
Anyone who says they are not producing a woman because her play won't make money can no longer get away with it. The argument is gone and should be unmasked as what it is -- sexism.
The Universal Rules of Framing Part II: What Does The Proscenium Frame?
Gerald Sindell | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living
Dodd had accomplished the near-impossible: making something said in a Senate committee hearing freshly framed.
The Play's The Thing, But It's Not The Only Thing
Nora Ephron | Posted 07.22.2009 | New York
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Anything can happen at Shakespeare in the Park. Herons land on stage. Planes fly over. This year, I read in the papers, a raccoon wandered onstage.
Warning: This Blog Contains Explicit Language and Lots of It
David Finkle | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment
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Slides hurled images on the walls of the artist and various agreeable participants carrying on in the nude or the nearly nude, full-frontally slathering their bodies with thick, gooey substances.
Odd News
Jeff Dorchen | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment
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Odd News and a new play: watch the preparatory video for Strauss at Midnight by Jeff Dorchen.
Broadway's 'Guys And Dolls' Shuttering This Sunday
AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Those raffish Damon Runyon residents of Times Square are closing up shop. Producer Howard Panter says the Broadway revival of "Guys ...
Drama Queens: Random Thoughts While Watching The Tony Awards Show
Tallulah Morehead | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment
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How nice to have the plot of Guys and Dolls explained to me. I don't think I've seen it more than a dozen times.
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