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Marilyn Maye: 96 Years (And Counting) Of the Great American Songbook

It is written, sort of: When one reaches that remote age of 96, one can have as many birthday parties as one damn well pleases. Marilyn Maye, who hit...

26.04.2024 7

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Jeff Bridges On His Life In Front of the Camera, From The Dude to The Old Man and Beyond

It may surprise you to learn the next recipient of the annual Chaplin Award, which Film at Lincoln Center will bestow April 29 at Alice Tully Hall,...

22.04.2024 6

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Len Cariou On a Six Decade Career That’s Included Shakespeare, Sondheim, and Selleck

Len Cariou has amassed all manner of awards bric-a-brac in his 65-year career, including a Tony in 1979 as Broadway’s original Sweeney Todd. But...

18.04.2024 9

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Dorian Harewood Returns To Broadway In ‘The Notebook’ After Almost 50 Years

The veteran film and TV actor on his role in 'The Notebook,' his first Broadway show in 46 years.

01.04.2024 7

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Toby Stephens Returns to the New York Stage to Investigate the Media In ‘Corruption’

“I love doing what I do on stage,” declares Toby Stephens, more joyfully than boastfully. Call it a (very) early calling. The gifted offspring of...

26.03.2024 20

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John Patrick Shanley Is This Theater Season’s King Dramatist

“I’m a longtime fan of the drop-off laundry,” crows playwright John Patrick Shanley with a certain discernible pride. Somehow, he convinces you...

21.03.2024 20

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Thomas Haden Church On Going Back to His Oil Man Roots In ‘Accidental Texan’

The moment you see Thomas Haden Church mosey into a small-town Texas diner to jump-start his day in Accidental Texan , a joyful little dramedy...

05.03.2024 5

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Julian Schlossberg Talks Hollywood Legends On Two New Podcasts

In this day and age, a return to radio might not seem the way to go, but Julian Schlossberg sees it different. He’s genuinely thrilled to be making...

27.02.2024 4

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Cynthia Nixon On Playing Eight (Out of 10) Roles In ‘The Seven Year Disappear’

“Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I’ve really known for sure is something I wanted to do,” Cynthia Nixon once said. She stands by...

26.02.2024 7

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Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer Puts the Pop Diva In ‘Spamalot’

In the concluding episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel last May, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer put in a surprise appearance as Carol Burnett—and, to...

14.02.2024 3

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David Cromer Juggles Directing and Acting In Some Of This Season’s Most Exciting Work

  You might recognize the title of The Animal Kingdom from the 1930s Philip Barry comedy of manners about a man trying to justify his love for...

06.02.2024 6

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Michael Urie Gets Medieval (And Musical) In ‘Spamalot’ and ‘Once Upon a Mattress’

“I seem to be in a medieval musical mode,” it hazily dawns on Michael Urie as he starts evolving these days from Sir Robin of Spamalot at the...

26.01.2024 8

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Patrick Page Brings a Dirty Dozen Shakespeare Villains To The Stage

Being the Hades of Hadestown has had its perks for Patrick Page. With a baritone that booms and an imperious manner, Page lorded majestically over...

08.01.2024 8

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David Ives On Collaborating With Sondheim On His Final Work, ‘Here We Are’

Stephen Sondheim was a self-confessed “world-class procrastinator,” and he left behind evidence in the form of an unfinished show, Here We Are ...

26.12.2023 5

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Chip Zien Counts His Broadway Blessings in ‘Harmony’

“What do you have to do to get to Carnegie Hall?” the aspiring musical novice is always asking. In the case of The Comedian Harmonists—a...

11.12.2023 5

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Irish Rep Is Having A Friel Day

Translations , the first of three plays by Brian Friel (1929-2015) constituting Irish Rep’s entire season this year, was in the opinion of its...

28.11.2023 9

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‘Merrily We Stole A Song’ Gives Sondheim the Forbidden Broadway Treatment

Gerard Alessandrini—who’s been tying tin cans to Broadway for 41 years, creating a sort of Tin Can Alley of song spoofs called Forbidden...

15.11.2023 10

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Nathan Lane On The Return Of His Sondheim Collaboration ‘The Frogs’

One fine fall day in 1979, Nathan Lane ambled into a favorite haunt, the old Drama Book Store on West 52nd St., and picked up a copy of The Frogs ,...

01.11.2023 5

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John Weidman Talks About Bringing ‘I Can Get It For You Wholesale’ Back to Broadway

Librettist John Weidman has been a well-oiled and practiced wordsmith for some of the best musical talents in the business, starting with Sondheim...

31.10.2023 5

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Maria Friedman On Directing The Hit Revival of Sondheim’s ‘Merrily, We Roll Along’

Finally, Merrily !—that was the critical consensus last December when a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily, We Roll Along rolled...

12.10.2023 2

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John Rubinstein Gets Presidential In One-Man Show ‘Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground’

The theater gods have granted a surprise second-term to Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground at Theater at St. Clement’s, but it’s a short one:...

09.10.2023 1

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Leslie Odom Jr. Returns To Broadway In The Show He’s Wanted To Do For Years

An unprecedented 16 Tony nominations got showered on Hamilton in 2016, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop history lesson about early America’s...

25.09.2023 1

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Playwright Theresa Rebeck Doubles Down With Two New Shows On and Off Broadway

In 2007, in The New York Times , Theresa Rebeck revealed the secret ingredients of all her plays: “Betrayal and treason and poor...

22.09.2023 2

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Arnie Burton On The Off-Broadway Spooky Season Spoof ‘Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors’

A funny thing happened to Arnie Burton on the way to Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors , a raucous little spook spoof now at New World Stages. For...

18.09.2023 1

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