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Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry on Their Ever-Evolving Collaboration
By RAVEN SNOOK
Friday, September 20, 2019  •   Acting  •    0 comments Share This
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Usually the L.A. Law costars act together, but this time he wrote the play --- Michael Tucker is an enthusiastic storyteller. Even mundane questions spark amusing tales, which his wife, Jill Eikenberry, often gently clarifies or expands on. Married for 46 years, they have been acting together even longer -- they met in 1970 doing theatre at Washington,...
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She's Playing One Role in Two Shows at Once
By REGINA ROBBINS
Wednesday, September 18, 2019  •   Acting  •    2 comments Share This
Wed Sep 18, 2019  •   Acting  •    2 comments Share This
Patrice Johnson Chevannes portrays a matriarch over the years in runboyrun and IN OLD AGE at New York Theatre Workshop --- "Girl, I'm tired," admits Patrice Johnson Chevannes about her latest gig at New York Theatre Workshop. When she shares the specifics, it's easy to understand why. Seven times a week, she's playing the same character in two different...
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Shining a Much-Needed Spotlight on Black Men Living with HIV
By JUAN MICHAEL PORTER II
Wednesday, September 04, 2019  •   Acting  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Sep 4, 2019  •   Acting  •    0 comments Share This
Art meets activism in the immersive theatre piece As Much As I Can --- The Normal Heart, Angels in America, Broadway's upcoming The Inheritance -- epic tales about white men living with HIV/AIDS are well represented in American theatre. But what about the black experience of the epidemic? It's a story dying to be told: According to the Centers for...
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Complicated Characters Are Her Comfort Zone
By DIANE SNYDER
Tuesday, September 03, 2019  •   Acting  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Sep 3, 2019  •   Acting  •    0 comments Share This
In 'Eureka Day,' Tina Benko makes sure her anti-vaxxer character does not come across as a villain --- The private Northern California school depicted in Jonathan Spector's timely dark comedy Eureka Day is so progressive that in the alphabet displayed on the library wall, "A" is for activist and "X" is for Malcolm. But this beacon of tolerance and...
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Why Alan Ariano Is Overjoyed to Finally Play a Filipino on Stage
By DIEP TRAN
Wednesday, August 21, 2019  •   Acting  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Aug 21, 2019  •   Acting  •    0 comments Share This
Ma-Yi Theater Company presents the first musical created by Filipino Americans in NYC --- Throughout his three-decade career, Filipino-American actor Alan Ariano has played a wide variety of roles, notably Broadway stints in the original productions of M. Butterfly and Miss Saigon, and the most recent revival of The King and I. But there's one thing...
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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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