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You've Never Seen Beth Malone—or Molly Brown—Like This

By JEN GUSHUE

Monday, February 24, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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The Tony nominee talks about starring in the revisal of The Unsinkable Molly Brown --- Having been raised in the Rocky Mountain State, Beth Malone grew up on the legend of Molly Brown: the "unsinkable" Titanic survivor who used her Colorado gold-rush fortune to help the poor, spearhead the juvenile court system and run for office before women even...

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Think You Know Frankenstein? You've Never Seen Him Like This

By REGINA ROBBINS

Friday, February 14, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Fri Feb 14, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

African American actress Stephanie Berry plays the creature and his creator in this new production at Classic Stage Company --- The original mad scientist story, Frankenstein, is alive on stage once more, but this stripped-down interpretation is a bold new experiment. Tristan Bernays' two-actor adaptation of Mary Shelley's iconic 1818 tale—which...

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70 Years After Her Broadway Debut, She Still Loves Being on Stage

By REGINA ROBBINS

Monday, February 10, 2020 • Acting • 4 comments Share This

Mon Feb 10, 2020 • Acting • 4 comments Share This

Black theatre great Vinie Burrows on her latest role and her life's work --- Vinie Burrows made her Broadway debut in 1950 and has been working on stage ever since. Yet incredibly, the 95-year-old actress has never had an agent. "For the last Off-Broadway productions I've done, people have called me," she says, citing her roles in 2019's Mies Julie...

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Why Charles Busch Hopes You Cry at His New Comedy

By RAVEN SNOOK

Thursday, January 30, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Thu Jan 30, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Why The Confession of Lily Dare is the playwright-performer's most personal parody --- For the past 35 years, Charles Busch has made audiences cry with laughter at his over-the-top send-ups of classic movies (Die Mommie Die!, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party are just a handful of his spoofs). But at The Confession of Lily Dare, theatregoers...

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Why Michael Urie Has Jesse Tyler Ferguson to Thank for His New Broadway Gig

By GERARD RAYMOND

Tuesday, January 21, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

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The stage star chats about his role in Grand Horizons, acting opposite Jane Alexander and why he's not worried about being typecast --- Michael Urie acknowledges that he often plays gay characters, notably his breakthrough role as flamboyant personal assistant Marc St. James on ABC's Ugly Betty; an out-of-work actor turned curator of Barbra Streisand's...

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Why Ann Harada Is Excited About Her Crappy New Job

By JONATHAN MANDELL

Thursday, January 16, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Thu Jan 16, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

The Avenue Q star has a great sense of humor about her role in Emojiland: The Musical --- "Sometimes you get to play glamorous roles, and sometimes you get to play a pile of poo," says Ann Harada. That's not a metaphor. The beloved character actress, best known for her scene-stealing turns in Avenue Q and Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, is playing...

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An Unlikely Master of an Ancient Japanese Art Form

By JANICE C. SIMPSON

Thursday, January 09, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

Thu Jan 9, 2020 • Acting • 0 comments Share This

How Katsura Sunshine is introducing New York audiences to the timeless comedy of rakugo --- How did Katsura Sunshine, a white guy from Canada, become a master of rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of storytelling? It's a quirky tale which he recounts with self-deprecating humor along with fables in his "sit-down comedy" solo show Katsura Sunshine's...

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