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Samantha Mathis Is Ready to 'Make Believe' On Stage

By CAROLINE CAO

Tuesday, August 13, 2019 • Acting • 1 comment Share This

Tue Aug 13, 2019 • Acting • 1 comment Share This

The TV and film star talks about tackling her second Off-Broadway play this summer --- In Make Believe, Bess Wohl's haunting new play at Second Stage Theatre, Samantha Mathis plays Kate, a middle-aged woman who was abandoned by her parents as a kid along with her three siblings. Act I chronicles the increasingly disturbing goings-on in the children's...

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Why Lena Hall Had to Do 'Bat Out of Hell – The Musical'

By ELIZA BENT

Thursday, August 08, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Thu Aug 8, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

The Tony winner returns to the New York stage and her first love: rock and roll --- When asked how she's been prepping for her part in Jim Steinman's over-the-top fantasy Bat Out of Hell – The Musical, Lena Hall gets all revved up. "I have been preparing my whole life!" she exclaims, and she means it. Although the 38-year-old actress-singer-songwriter...

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Annie Golden Graduates to Leading Lady

By RAVEN SNOOK

Tuesday, July 30, 2019 • Acting • 2 comments Share This

Tue Jul 30, 2019 • Acting • 2 comments Share This

After decades as a character actress, the sexagenarian gets her golden ticket with Broadway Bounty Hunter --- Even though Annie Golden is a woman of a certain age, she has no plans to retire. Why would she when writers are penning parts just for her? The 67 year old is currently starring in the exuberant meta-musical comedy Broadway Bounty Hunter...

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Why This Playwright-Performer Is Breaking the Silence About Eating Disorders

By ALLISON CONSIDINE

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Tue Jul 23, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Domenica Feraud makes her Off-Broadway debut with the drama Rinse, Repeat --- Actors often feel vulnerable when baring their bodies onstage. But for writer-performer Domenica Feraud, being fully exposed in her debut play Rinse, Repeat, currently at Off-Broadway's Pershing Square Signature Center, has been particularly hard since the show was inspired...

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Rita Rudner Returns to Her Musical Theatre Roots

By SANDY MACDONALD

Monday, July 22, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Mon Jul 22, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Why the beloved stand-up comic co-wrote herself a starring role in the Off-Broadway tuner Two's a Crowd --- Over the past four decades, Rita Rudner has held her own in the upper echelons of comedy, mostly by being herself: a very funny but thoroughly nice person with a quirky perspective on life. But the sexagenarian didn't start out wanting to be...

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How Do You Tell the Stories of Missing and Murdered Women?

By JONATHAN MANDELL

Thursday, July 18, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Thu Jul 18, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Playwright Isaac Gomez and Mexican screen star Kate del Castillo give voice to victims of violence in 'the way she spoke' --- "There is no better place to kill a girl than in Juárez," says Kate del Castillo in the way she spoke, currently running at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre. The well-known Mexican actress is making her English-speaking...

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Reimagining 'Medea' Through a Latinx Lens

By JOSE SOLÍS

Wednesday, July 17, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Wed Jul 17, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Sabina Zúñiga Varela on starring in Mojada at The Public Theater --- When people ask Sabina Zúñiga Varela, "What are you?," she never says Hispanic. She despises that the term recalls the violent legacy of the Spanish conquistadors. Instead the actress responds, "I'm New Mexican," which she feels better encompasses her...

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