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Mark Linn-Baker On Bringing Molière’s ‘The Imaginary Invalid’ to Life

"It may be 400 years old, but it lasts! It’s funny stuff," Linn-Baker, who worked with Jesse Berger on the project, told Observer.

19.06.2025 20

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Jennifer Simard On Her ‘Death Becomes Her’ Onstage Partnership—And Tony Competition

Both Simard and her co-star in "Death Becomes Her," Megan Hilty, are up for the Best Actress in a Musical Tony this year. "You must throw the ball to...

27.05.2025 10

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Joanna Gleason’s Glowing Return to New York Theater

The Tony award winning actress shines in the family drama 'We Had a World,' and has also written and directed a new film, 'The Grotto.'

06.05.2025 3

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Kate Baldwin Takes On The Story Of A 230 Year Marriage With ‘Love Life’

The go-to singer for musical theater heroines talks about the Encores! revival of the Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner musical.

26.03.2025 3

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Joy Behar Adds Playwright to Her Resume With ‘My First Ex-Husband’

Behar has written a show of eight monologues crafted from interviews with women about their divorces.

11.03.2025 10

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A Mother, Her Gay Son, and the Off-Broadway Show About Them

"There's a very special relationship between a mother and a gay son and an extremely special relationship between a mother and a gay Italian son,”...

22.02.2025 6

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Melissa Gilbert Acts Her Age In ‘Still’

She grew up on TV in 'Little House on the Prairie,' but now she gets a chance to play a real grown-up in this Off Broadway two-hander about a couple...

05.02.2025 30

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Director Mike Leigh On The Improvisational Path to ‘Hard Truths’

The writer-director calls his movies “tightly scripted,” but the harrowingly funny 'Hard Truths' wasn't scripted in any conventional sense....

22.01.2025 4

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Mare Winningham On The Dysfunctional Holiday Drama of ‘Cult of Love’

From left: Christopher Sears, Barbie Ferreira , Roberta Colindrez , Mare Winningham, Zachary Quinto, David Rasche, Shailene Woodley and Rebecca...

23.12.2024 5

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To V, Or Not to V? ‘Eureka Day’ Brings the Vax Debate to the Broadway Stage

Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch, Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht and Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz (from left) in Eureka Day Jeremy Daniel Considering that...

12.12.2024 8

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Francis Jue on ‘Yellow Face,’ A Play About What We Believe America Is

Yellow Face, which wraps a successful revival run at Roundabout’s Haimes Theater today, is a semi-autobiographical play written by David Henry...

24.11.2024 4

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Darren Criss on Bringing Robot Love to Broadway With ‘Maybe Happy Ending’

Chances are the multi-talented Darren Criss is as cross-eyed as the rest of us are with the twists and turns his career has taken over the past 13...

18.11.2024 3

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Director Sam Mendes on Bringing ‘The Hills of California’ To Broadway

Director Sam Mendes and playwright Jez Butterworth were friends for 30 years before they got around to collaborating. The result, The Ferryman ,...

18.10.2024 2

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Holland Taylor On ‘N/A’ And Playing Powerful Women

The title of N/A —the slight but sprightly two-hander that Congressional aide-turned-playwright Mario Correa has concocted out of thin D.C. air and...

08.08.2024 2

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Shaina Taub On Her Tony Winning ‘Suffs’ Providing Possibilities in Hard Times

Hours after Kamala Harris emerged as a presidential contender, Shaina Taub realized that Suffs— her new Tony-winning musical about pioneering...

30.07.2024 1

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