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He's a Big Reason Why Audiences Exit Laughing

By BRIAN SCOTT LIPTON

Monday, May 20, 2019 • Acting • 2 comments Share This

Mon May 20, 2019 • Acting • 2 comments Share This

Veteran character actor David Schramm talks about his showstopping role in Enter Laughing: The Musical --- When The York Theatre Company decided to revive one of its most popular productions, Enter Laughing: The Musical, for its 50th anniversary, the first call made was to director Stuart Ross. After all, he was the one who reworked Joseph Stein and...

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What Happens When Mean Girls Do Macbeth?

By SANDY MACDONALD

Thursday, May 16, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Thu May 16, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

After a successful engagement at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in spring 2019, Mac Beth is having an encore run at the Hunter Theater Project from January 6 to February 22, 2020 with a slightly different cast. Erica Schmidt directs a radical reinvention of Shakespeare's tragedy featuring seven young actresses --- Streamlined into one whirlwind act...

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Why Alice Ripley Is Preaching LGBTQ Acceptance in a Church

By J. KEITH VAN STRAATEN

Friday, May 10, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Fri May 10, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

The Pink Unicorn is having an encore run at The Cell in Chelsea from August 13 to 25. The Tony winner stars in a site-specific solo show about a conservative woman's moral awakening --- Alice Ripley can't remember the last time she was on stage and didn't sing. "Oh my gosh… I want to say Wild Animals You Should Know?" guesses the 55-year-old...

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Why She Loves Playing a Hateful Character in 'The Ferryman'

By ALLISON CONSIDINE

Friday, May 03, 2019 • Acting • 1 comment Share This

Fri May 3, 2019 • Acting • 1 comment Share This

Ann McDonough returns to Broadway after a 16-year absence as staunch Irish republican Aunt Pat --- When Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman opened on Broadway last fall, Ann McDonough's friends immediately started calling her. "They bullied me, saying, 'You have to call your agent!'" the actress recalls. They insisted she would be amazing as Aunt Patricia...

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Julie White Gets Hilariously Dark in 'Gary' on Broadway

By RAVEN SNOOK

Thursday, May 02, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Thu May 2, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

The Tony winner on her dramatic journey with this outrageous black comedy --- When Julie White emerges in front of the Booth Theatre curtain to deliver an over-the-top prologue in rhyming verse as blood spurts from her neck, she sets the tone for Taylor Mac's Gary. A gleefully gruesome comedy about the little people tasked with cleaning up the big...

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Why He Loves Doing Shakespeare for Newbies -- Especially When They're Rowdy

By JOSE SOLÍS

Wednesday, May 01, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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Why Christopher Ryan Grant keeps coming back to The Public Theater's Mobile Unit --- Yale School of Drama grad Christopher Ryan Grant has acted on Broadway and off, plus plenty of regional theatre. Yet many of his most memorable acting experiences didn't take place on a traditional stage. As a veteran of The Public Theater's Mobile Unit, Grant has...

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Why Elizabeth Marvel Doesn't See Goneril as a Villain

By DIANE SNYDER

Monday, April 29, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Mon Apr 29, 2019 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

The stage and screen star talks about her latest role opposite Glenda Jackson in King Lear --- Cold, cruel, calculating. Those adjectives are often used to describe King Lear's eldest daughter, Goneril, who manipulates her father for her own ends. But those words weren't on Elizabeth Marvel's mind as she prepped to play the character for the current...

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