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

A private school agonizes over what to do about an outbreak of mumps in playwright Jonathan Spector's 'Eureka Day,' which he tells Observer started...

12.12.2024 4

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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 9

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

The star of the new musical on learning to move like a robot and how he first caught the acting bug.

18.11.2024 9

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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 3

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

Holland Taylor plays a thinly veiled Nancy Pelosi in 'N/A.' Along with a judge on 'The Practice,' a network exec on 'The Morning Show' and Charlie...

08.08.2024 6

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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 her musical 'Suffs' was playing to a new energy. “People...

30.07.2024 3

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‘Titanic’ Review: Encores Raises The Ship of Dreams For The 21st Century

The Tony-winning Best Musical of 1997 and the Oscar-winning Best Picture of 1997 were both titled Titanic and told the same tale: the disastrous...

12.06.2024 4

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André De Shields On Giving ‘Cats’ A New Life And Telling Stories at the Moth

In addition to playing Old Deuteronomy in a radical reinterpretation of 'Cats' inspired by drag balls, De Shields is being honored by the Moth as...

04.06.2024 5

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Tony Nominee Jessica Stone on Her Journey From Actor to Director of ‘Water for Elephants’

Jessica Stone—who directed last year’s Tony-winning Best Musical, Kimberly Akimbo , and may just have directed this year’s Tony-winning...

31.05.2024 10

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Will Keen On Playing Vladimir Putin On Broadway in ‘Patriots’

Keen says that Russia's invasion of Ukraine turned 'Patriots' — a play about the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and the rise of Putin — into...

14.05.2024 20

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Marilyn Maye: 96 Years (And Counting) Of the Great American Songbook

It is written, sort of: When one reaches that remote age of 96, one can have as many birthday parties as one damn well pleases. Marilyn Maye, who hit...

26.04.2024 8

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Jeff Bridges On His Life In Front of the Camera, From The Dude to The Old Man and Beyond

It may surprise you to learn the next recipient of the annual Chaplin Award, which Film at Lincoln Center will bestow April 29 at Alice Tully Hall,...

22.04.2024 8

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Len Cariou On a Six Decade Career That’s Included Shakespeare, Sondheim, and Selleck

Len Cariou has amassed all manner of awards bric-a-brac in his 65-year career, including a Tony in 1979 as Broadway’s original Sweeney Todd. But...

18.04.2024 10

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Dorian Harewood Returns To Broadway In ‘The Notebook’ After Almost 50 Years

The veteran film and TV actor on his role in 'The Notebook,' his first Broadway show in 46 years.

01.04.2024 7

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Toby Stephens Returns to the New York Stage to Investigate the Media In ‘Corruption’

“I love doing what I do on stage,” declares Toby Stephens, more joyfully than boastfully. Call it a (very) early calling. The gifted offspring of...

26.03.2024 20

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John Patrick Shanley Is This Theater Season’s King Dramatist

“I’m a longtime fan of the drop-off laundry,” crows playwright John Patrick Shanley with a certain discernible pride. Somehow, he convinces you...

21.03.2024 30

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Thomas Haden Church On Going Back to His Oil Man Roots In ‘Accidental Texan’

The moment you see Thomas Haden Church mosey into a small-town Texas diner to jump-start his day in Accidental Texan , a joyful little dramedy...

05.03.2024 20

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Julian Schlossberg Talks Hollywood Legends On Two New Podcasts

In this day and age, a return to radio might not seem the way to go, but Julian Schlossberg sees it different. He’s genuinely thrilled to be making...

27.02.2024 7

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Cynthia Nixon On Playing Eight (Out of 10) Roles In ‘The Seven Year Disappear’

“Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I’ve really known for sure is something I wanted to do,” Cynthia Nixon once said. She stands by...

26.02.2024 10

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Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer Puts the Pop Diva In ‘Spamalot’

In the concluding episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel last May, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer put in a surprise appearance as Carol Burnett—and, to...

14.02.2024 30

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David Cromer Juggles Directing and Acting In Some Of This Season’s Most Exciting Work

  You might recognize the title of The Animal Kingdom from the 1930s Philip Barry comedy of manners about a man trying to justify his love for...

06.02.2024 6

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Michael Urie Gets Medieval (And Musical) In ‘Spamalot’ and ‘Once Upon a Mattress’

“I seem to be in a medieval musical mode,” it hazily dawns on Michael Urie as he starts evolving these days from Sir Robin of Spamalot at the...

26.01.2024 8

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Patrick Page Brings a Dirty Dozen Shakespeare Villains To The Stage

Being the Hades of Hadestown has had its perks for Patrick Page. With a baritone that booms and an imperious manner, Page lorded majestically over...

08.01.2024 10

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David Ives On Collaborating With Sondheim On His Final Work, ‘Here We Are’

Stephen Sondheim was a self-confessed “world-class procrastinator,” and he left behind evidence in the form of an unfinished show, Here We Are ...

26.12.2023 8

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Chip Zien Counts His Broadway Blessings in ‘Harmony’

“What do you have to do to get to Carnegie Hall?” the aspiring musical novice is always asking. In the case of The Comedian Harmonists—a...

11.12.2023 5

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