Monday, August 1, 2011
Reports on The Twentieth-Century Way, Amsterdam Abortion Survivor, and Headscarf and the Angry Bitch.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Reports on Just In Time: The Judy Holliday Story, Picking Palin, and A Matter of Choice.
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1961 Stop The World - I Want To Get Off opens tonight at the Queen's Theatre on London's West End. The musical, which follows the life of one man from birth to death, will run 485 p…
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1953 Actress Maude Adams dies today. Born in 1873, Adams, at the age of 32, played the title role in James M. Barrie's Peter Pan when it had its American premiere at the Empire Theatre i…
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Friday, June 10, 2011
Playwright Arnold Wesker speaks to Andrew Dickson about his life and work including the new revival of his landmark play, Chicken Soup with Barley, as it returns to London's Royal Court afte…
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Tony Award nominees Patina Miller, Victoria Clark, Douglas Carter Beane, and Cheri Steinkellner discuss the creation of the hit musical Sister Act.
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1954 Playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein is born today. Fierstein will win Tony Awards for writing and performing in his play Torch Song Trilogy, as well as for his book for the musical La…
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1968 Stage and screen actress Dorothy Gish dies today in Rapallo, Italy. Her first New York stage appearance was in 1903 in East Lynne. She began her film career in 1912, but resumed her sta…
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Drama Desk Award winners Norbert Leo Butz, Bobby Cannavale, Sutton Foster, John Larroquette, and Joe Mantello share their reactions.
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Daniel Radcliffe and a host of stars discuss what they wore to the 2011 Drama Desk Awards.
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The Drama Desk Award nominee discusses his popular solo show Long Story Short.
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Drama Desk Award nominee Brian Bedford discusses directing and starring in Broadway's The Importance of Being Earnest
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Drama Desk Award nominees Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman discuss writing the score for the hit Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can.
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The Book of Mormon star talks about being nominated for his first Tony Award.
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Jim Parsons and Lee Pace discuss their Drama Desk Award-winning work in the Broadway revival of The Normal Heart.
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The Drama Desk-nominated star of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying shares his insights into performing in the hit Broadway musical.
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1922 Comedy team Potash and Perlmutter are Partners Again. The show plays beyond the season at the Selwyn Theatre.
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1946 Actor Tim Curry is born in Cheshire, England. He will create memorable Broadway roles including Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Mozart in Amadeus, Dada artist Tristan Tzara in…
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1865 Our American Cousin starring Laura Keene is in performance tonight when John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. Booth's broth…
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Bobby Cannavale, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Chris Rock, Elizabeth Rodriguez, and Anna D. Shaprio discuss the new hit play The MotherF**ker With the Hat.
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A million-dollar comic book stolen from actor Nicolas Cage nearly a decade ago has been found in an old southern California storage locker.
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1868 Birthday of master actor George Arliss, who starred in a series of historical vehicles, including Hamilton and Disraeli.
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1904 The New York Times moves its editorial offices to Long Acre Square, prompting a name change to Times Square.
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Norbert Leo Butz, Aaron Tveit, Tom Wopat and the company of Catch Me If You Can discuss the much-anticipated new Broadway musical.
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Sutton Foster, Joel Grey, Kathleen Marshall, and the company of the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes give a sneak preview of the show.
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SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:40AM[SHARE]As a Manhattan-born teenager at the High School of Art & Design on East 57th Street, I was star-struck. I would go to a Broadway show whenever I could afford it. I practically lived at t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 08:24AM[SHARE]1921 Sarah Bernhardt, who recently had one leg amputated, comes to London to play the title role in Louis Verneuil's Daniel at the Prince's Theatre. When she found a wooden leg unwie…
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For 100 years, The New York Public Library's landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and its world-renowned collections have inspired people everywhere t…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:54AM[SHARE]1918 Actor-manager Henry Miller opens his theatre in New York City. It's designed to seat 1,000 spectators and capable of handling the latest staging innovations. This will ring true wel…
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1922 Birthday of actor Richard Kiley (1922-1999), who will create memorable roles in mid-20th century musicals, including Kismet, Redhead, No Strings and his signature role, the title charac…
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