William Inge’s Come Back, Little Sheba (1950) seems to owe much to the plays of his friend and mentor (and probable sex partner) Tennessee Williams—and in particular to 1944’s The Glas…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:39PMIn the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, Tennessee Williams’s 1969 one-act (two scene) play, is such a dark, bitter work that it would seem wrong to call seeing it a “rare treat.” But the current …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:27PMNew York Animals, a “play with music” produced by Manhattan’s Bedlam theatre company, takes a look at a collection of New York beasts of various stripes and spots—people whose…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:37AMAt age 10 Avi Hoffman (born Avrum Ber, in 1958) made his theatrical debut in a Yiddish Folksbiene Theater production called Bronx Express. In the decades that followed, the performer, a son …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:06PMSome stories linger in the incubation stage. Patiently—or not so patiently—they wait to be told, to make their way into the public consciousness. Then, uncannily, when they finally burst…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:51PMRashid and Leila, a young Egyptian-American couple, sit propped up in bed together. They smoke fake cigarettes while they analyze their own psyches and behavior. (It’s something one imagin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:00PMBack Stage talked with some students recently about their experiences in several of New York's musical theater training programs.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMFor many of us, our lifelong love affair with the theater first blossomed in summer. Summer theaters provide on-the-job training for young actors.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:58PMActors often talk about “dream roles,” but when Richard Kent Green says he’s longed for years to portray legendary thinker Albert Einstein, he’s not whistling “She Blinded Me with …
SOURCE: simply-showbiz.com at 11:48AMThe Mobile Shakespeare Unit's 90-minute condensation of Shakespeare's "Richard III," at the Public Theater, has Ron Cephas Jones as the murdering monarch.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AMSuave-voiced musical theatre actor Max von Essen is a hard worker with a string of impressive credits. He has appeared in productions in regional theaters (The Baker’s Wife, Mame). He’s …
SOURCE: simply-showbiz.com at 08:02AMThe composer of “Leap of Faith,” which opens on Broadway on Thursday, has three Main Stem shows this season. Here’s how to approach singing his songs.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:00AMActors and directors flock to summer theater programs and camps, such as Stagedoor Manor and Idyllwild Arts Summer Program.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:40AMThe proliferation of film work in Boston has greatly benefited area stage actors, many of whom have been quietly toiling in theater companies for years.
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