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Monday, May 25, 2015

Weaving Spider-Man's Complex Web by Melissa Rose Bernardo

Spider-Man's creators -- director-writer Julie Taymor and rockers Bono and The Edge -- share what it's like to spin a comic-book classic into Broadway's biggest spectacle.

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Reign of Fierstein by Melissa Rose Bernardo

Author-actor Harvey Fierstein returns to La Cage aux Folles and a role he created -- literally.

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Boys Will Be Girls — The Waxing, Wigs, Couture and Corsets of Shakespeare's Leading Ladies by Melissa Rose Bernardo

Mark Rylance, Samuel Barnett and Paul Chahidi share some of the secrets behind their performances in Twelfth Night and Richard III on Broadway. *

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Regular Singing Review | News Reviews and News | Stage | EW.com by Melissa Rose Bernardo

Death is inescapable in Regular Singing, the much-anticipated fourth and final entry in Richard Nelson's Apple Family: Scenes From Life in the Country series, now receiving its world premier…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 05:50PM[SHARE]

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The Last Five Years Review | News Reviews and News | Stage | EW.com by Melissa Rose Bernardo

In the 11 years since The Last Five Years premiered at Off Broadway's Minetta Lane Theatre, the two-character time-bending musical has developed an almost cultlike following among theater st…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 11:06PM[SHARE]

Saturday, November 17, 2012

She's Gonna Like It Here: Meet Broadway's Annie, Lilla Crawford by Melissa Rose Bernardo

Lilla Crawford is realizing the dream of a million little girls: She's playing Annie on Broadway. She explains how she got to NYC.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Once Upon a Tune: A Beloved Film Score Is Reinvented for Broadway by Melissa Rose Bernardo

Sit down, have a pint, and hear the tale of a Girl and a Guy — Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová — who made beautiful music together, won an Oscar and moved to Broad…

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

STAGE TO SCREENS: Former "Gilmore Girl" Alexis Bledel Arrives Off-Broadway in Regrets by Melissa Rose Bernardo

If you notice more than the usual number of teen-to-twentysomething girls milling around Manhattan Theatre Club's Off-Broadway home at City Center Stage I these days, they're probabl…

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Women of Other Desert Cities by Melissa Rose Bernardo

Stockard Channing, Rachel Griffiths and Judith Light, playing blood relations in Broadway's Other Desert Cities, discuss the mercurial characters of Jon Robin Baitz's play.

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Thursday, October 20, 2011