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Monday, November 18, 2024

Helping “Gypsy” ’s Strippers Take It All Off Anew by Henry Alford

George C. Wolfe finds inspiration for his production—starring Audra McDonald as Broadway’s first Black Mama Rose—watching the pasties twirl at a burlesque show.

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Monday, May 16, 2022

Austin Pendleton Is Still on Broadway, Still a Babe Magnet by Henry Alford

The actor and director hangs at the lounge of Studio 54, where he is performing in “The Minutes,” to discuss sixty years in the theatre, casting a young Laurie Metcalf and John Malkovich…

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Monday, August 30, 2021

Sophocles Gone Wild! by Henry Alford

For a nude production of “Antigonick,” a translation of the Greek play “Antigone,” performers for Torn Out Theatre dodged the crazies and the lookie-loos during rehearsals in Prosp…

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