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First Nighter: The Woefully Misunderstood Damsels in Distress of Passion and Cinderella

David Finkle | Posted 05.18.2013 | Arts
Read More: Laura Osnes, Mark Brokaw, "The Boys From Syracuse, Ann Hould-Ward, Classic Stage Company, "Flower Drum Song, Melissa Errico, "Passione D'Amore, "Cinderella, Santino Fontana, David Chase, " John Doyle, "Follies, Marla Mindelle, Jeffry Denman, Ettore Scola, Donmar Warehouse, Peter Bartlett, Nicky Silver, " the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, Jane Cox, Oscar Hammerstein II, " the Broadway Theatre, Tom Nelis, Harriet Harris, " Douglas Carter Beane, Judy Kuhn, " Stephen Sondheim, Dan Moses Schreier, "Passion, Flying by Foy, Stephen Bogardus, James Lapine, Jonathan Tunick, Victoria Clark, Rob Berman, " Henry David Hwang, Elena Roger, Richard Rodgers, Ryan Silverman, William Ivey Long, Arts News
David Finkle

The correct title for the Sondheim-Lapine opus would be Romantic Obsession, and it wouldn't try to ingratiate itself as a depiction of what genuine love is. Passion is anything but a love story.

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Nathan Lane Gets a Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Award; Cinderella on Broadway

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.05.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Lorne Michaels, Douglas Carter Beane, Laura Osnes, Eric Fishl, Santino Fontana, Alec Baldwin, Ken Auletta, Mickey Straus, Blythe Danner, April Gornik, Linda Lavin, Peter Bartlett, Matthew Broderick, Dan Ackroyd, Willem deKooning, Hilaria, Marshall Brickman, Tommy Tune, Harriet Harris, John Alexander, Jill Furman, Laurie Metcalf, Nathan Lane, Bernadette Peters, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kyra Sedgwick, Anjelica Huston, Cinderella, Peter Stone, Jack O?Brien, East Hampton?S Guild Hall, William Ivey Long, Walter Isaacson, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

The award season is all about superlatives and thank you speeches but for East Hampton's Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Awards, it is about community and family.

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Theatre Drawings

Ken Fallin | Posted 05.01.2013 | Arts
Read More: Wall Street Journal, Theatre Art, Harriet Harris, William Ivey Long, Cinderella Broadway Show, Cinderella, Arts News
Ken Fallin

This past week I did this drawing for The Wall Street Journal of the divine Harriet Harris as the Evil Stepmother in the new Broadway musical, Cinderella.

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The American Theatre Wing's National Theatre Company Grants

John-Stuart Fauquet | Posted 12.10.2012 | Arts
Read More: Arts, Heather Hitchens, American Theatre Wing, Regional Theatre, Lucie Arnaz, National Theatre Company Grants, American Theatre, William Ivey Long, Arts News
John-Stuart Fauquet

We should congratulate the American Theatre Wing for giving such a gift to not-for-profit theatres every year.

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Dreamgirls Gets a Facelift

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Hudson Scenic Studios, Michelle Obama, Jennifer Holliday, Robert Longbottom, Longtime Companion, Hairspray, John Breglio, Syesh Mercado, Milton Craig Nealy, Robin Wagner, Moya Angela, Apollo Theatre, Dreamgirls, Michael Bennett, West Side Story, Diana Ross, Margaret Hoffman, Adrienne Warren, Stephen Caffrey, Harlem, City Island, Payola, Henry Krieger, Led, Korea, Trevon Davis, Shane Sparks, Jarran Muse, Chaz Lamar Shepherd, West Point, William Ivey Long, Zuckerbaby, Arts News
George Heymont

From the very first beats of Henry Krieger's score, the new staging of Dreamgirls roars out of the opening gate and never slows down.

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Vice Founder Suroosh Alvi, John Currin, Louise Bourgeois All Living Large In East Village

The New York Observer | Max Abelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Vice Magazine, East Village, Suroosh Alvi, Louise Bourgeois, Suroosh Alvi East Village, New York, New York City, John Currin, William Ivey Long, New York News

Vice is cooler than your cool uncle's cool uncle. It has photographs of naked polyglot brunettes, impeccably cruel music reviews, crueler Dos and Don'...

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Do You Know the Muffin Man? Yes, He Lives Down the Block

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Manhattan, Brian Murray, Louise Bourgeois, Marie Mullen, Martin McDonagh, The Muffin House, Thomas' English Muffins, West 20th Street, David Mamet, Samuel Bath Thomas, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Atlantic Theater Company, William Ivey Long, Ben-Zion, New York News
David Finkle

If it hadn't been for Karen, the mailperson, I still wouldn't know about The Muffin House and its importance to history and to my block, West 20th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

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