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Lea Salonga (Finally) Has Company
When I was a little kid, I wanted to be Lea Salonga. Of course, back in the ’90s, all little Asian girls who loved to sing wanted to be the Miss Saigon star. She was the Asian musical theatre Cinderella, a young Filipino girl with a beautiful voice, plucked out of obscurity and turned into […]
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Once, Twice, Three Times Your Savior
Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles — It’s not every day you sit down with three Jesus Christs. Wait, what’s the plural form of Jesus? Jesi? Jesuses? “Jesees!” says Donald Warfield, one of three actors playing the son of God in 3 Christs, now at Judson […]
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How One Story Became Four Plays
In The Blueprint Project, writers riff on the same idea —
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A Little Taylor Swift, a Little Bertolt Brecht
In Less Than Rent’s new show, wild comedy masks a dark American secret —