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Sunday, February 10, 2013

“24/7- It’s the Artist’s Life for Me! Some discoveries by Tery Fugate-Wilcox of a fantastic life with Valer!e Monroe Shakespeare by Suzanna Bowling

"24/7- It's the Artist's Life for Me! Some discoveries by Tery Fugate-Wilcox of a fantastic life with Valer!e Monroe Shakespeare: We were together for for 48 years...& I mean literally,…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:59PM
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lacks Sizzle by Suzanna Bowling

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Lacks Sizzle: Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is about sexual longing and heat.

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:28PM

The New Theatre or Another Century Theatre on Central Park West by Suzanna Bowling

The New Theatre or Another Century Theatre on Central Park West: In publishing the article Buried Underneath 200 CPS, I came to discover thanks to James Morgan that the pictures I put up of …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:53PM
Monday, February 4, 2013

Tina Packer Highlights Shakespeare Women of Will Highlights by Suzanna Bowling

Tina Packer Highlights Shakespeare Women of Will: Looking like Judi Dench with the same twinkling eyes, throaty voice and command of language, Tina Packer takes on the women of Shakespeare w…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:43PM
Friday, February 1, 2013

Into The Woods With Meryl Streep by Suzanna Bowling

Into The Woods With Meryl Streep: There was a reading after it was decided a Into the Woods adaptation be made into a movie.

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:27AM
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Aaron Sorkin Vanishes From Broadway production of Houdini by Suzanna Bowling

Aaron Sorkin Vanishes From Broadway production of Houdini: Aaron Sorkin is oysta la vista from the Broadway production of Houdini due to other projects.

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:54PM

And in This Corner: Sprecher vs Thibodeau by Suzanna Bowling

And in This Corner: Sprecher vs Thibodeau: Listen up Smash, the saga of the battling ill-fated Rebecca has entered the boxing ring, page 6 and is just ripe for a back biting script complete …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:11AM
Friday, January 25, 2013

One Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day Shows Creativity on Broadway by Suzanna Bowling

One Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day Shows Creativity on Broadway: Creating a musical in 24 hours has been documented in "One Night Stand: Creating a Play in a Day."

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:23PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Free Performances of Asking For It by AMAS Musical Theatre by Suzanna Bowling

Free Performances of Asking For It by AMAS Musical Theatre: Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff/Artistic Producer) will present three performances of “Asking For It”, an autobiographica…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:55PM

Barry Manilow Gets a Street Named After Him and Loses His Voice by Suzanna Bowling

Barry Manilow Gets a Street Named After Him and Loses His Voice: Considering he has never performed on Broadway except in his own concerts, I find it odd that the City of New York has honore…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 04:39PM
Monday, January 21, 2013

Stephen Schwartz Brings Back Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook by Suzanna Bowling

Stephen Schwartz Brings Back Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook: Stephen Schwartz best known for "Wicked," "Godspell," "Pippin" and others announced that he'll develop his musical "Snapshots: …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:32PM

R.U.R. The Play That Coined The Word Robot by Suzanna Bowling

R.U.R. The Play That Coined The Word Robot: Sci-fi lovers will thrill to the sheer fact that Karel Capek's classic R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), the play that originated the word "robo…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:44PM
Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Other Place Shows How Talented Laurie Metcalf Is by Suzanna Bowling

The Other Place Shows How Talented Laurie Metcalf Is: Laurie Metcalf is a consummate actress displaying raw emotion in Sharr White’s play “The Other Place.”

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:18AM
Friday, January 18, 2013

Rare Al Hirschfeld Drawings Including Pippen and The Apple Tree for Auction at Swann by Suzanna Bowling

Rare Al Hirschfeld Drawings Including Pippen and The Apple Tree for Auction at Swann: One of my favorite galleries and auction house Swann is presenting a theatre must see. The Al Hirschfeld…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:33PM

My Name is Asher Lev or My Name is Ari Brand by Suzanna Bowling

My Name is Asher Lev or My Name is Ari Brand: Westside Theatre. The best play of the season is not on Broadway but off at the Westside Theatre. My Name is Asher Lev, by Aaron Posner, is the …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:20PM

I Malvolio and In Acting Shakespeare. by Suzanna Bowling

I Malvolio and In Acting Shakespeare: This week, two one man shows opened about Shakespeare. I Malvolio and In Acting Shakespeare. One stars British performer Tim Crouch whose RSC background…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:56PM

This Picnic is Lacking by Suzanna Bowling

This Picnic is Lacking: I love the movie Picnic with William Holden, Kim Novak and Cliff Robertson. It was full of young hot lust and longing, the need to connect and not to be alone while p…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:48PM

Oh No, Another Ghost Story: Spirits of Exit Eleven by Suzanna Bowling

Oh No, Another Ghost Story: Spirits of Exit Eleven: Michael Puzzo’s new play Spirits of Exit Eleven is billed as a Halloween stripper comedy.

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:20PM
Thursday, January 17, 2013

January and February preview of Upcoming Shows at 54 Below by Suzanna Bowling

New York’s Broadway Nightclub 54 Below has an impressive line up from Broadway to Cabaret performers.   Tony Award Nominee actress, singer (Annie) Andrea McArdle in 70s and Sunny appe…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 05:31PM
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

THE CONCERT: A Broadway Concert to End all Concerts by Suzanna Bowling

THE CONCERT: A Broadway Concert to End all Concerts: Brad Alexander, Adam Mathias, Will Aronson, Bill Nelson, Jeff Blumenkrantz, John Bucchino, Patrick Cook, Frederick Freyer, Anna Da…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:33AM

Why Wait for Fall…The Fig Leaves Are Falling Now by Suzanna Bowling

Why Wait for Fall...The Fig Leaves Are Falling Now: The original Broadway production of The Fig Leaves Are Falling was titled Birth is the Coward’s Way Out and it opened at the Broadhurst …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 01:14AM
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander and Tovah Feldshuh Star in Two By Two by Suzanna Bowling

Seinfeld's Jason Alexander and Tovah Feldshuh Star in Two By Two: The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) has announced that Broadway veterans Jason Alexander (…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:59AM
Sunday, January 6, 2013

The Last Seder Takes on Alzheimer’s at a Family Gathering by Suzanna Bowling

The Last Seder Takes on Alzheimer’s at a Family Gathering: The Last Seder at Theater Three connects with its audience, many of whom are suffering with a parent or relative with Alzheimer�…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:19PM

Terrence McNally’s Golden Age is More of a Roulade by Suzanna Bowling

Terrence McNally’s Golden Age is More of a Roulade: After seeing Terrence McNally’s new play Golden Age, at City Center produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, I had to do some research beca…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:06PM
Saturday, January 5, 2013

No Hope but Wonderful Acting in The Freedom of the City by Suzanna Bowling

No Hope but Wonderful Acting in The Freedom of the City: Governments hiding their crimes is nothing new but under the pen of Irish playwright Brian Friel, the fabric of injustice is plain as…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 12:05PM
Friday, January 4, 2013

Inside Broadway and Annie Bring “Creating the Magic” to Public Schools by Suzanna Bowling

Inside Broadway and Annie Bring "Creating the Magic" to Public Schools: Inside Broadway is partnering with the Broadway revival of Annie to offer two exclusive ‘Creating the Magic’ works…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 03:43PM

Behind Broadway as a Musical is Created in 24 Hours With One Night Stand by Suzanna Bowling

Behind Broadway as a Musical is Created in 24 Hours With One Night Stand: Follow some of New York's top actors, including Cheyenne Jackson (30 Rock, Glee), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Famil…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 02:47PM
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Superstar Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child Joins the National Tour of Fela! by Suzanna Bowling

Producers Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Will & Jada Pinkett Smith and Ruth & Stephen Hendel are pleased to announce that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and former member of Dest…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:52AM

God Bless America, and The Golden Land by Suzanna Bowling

God Bless America, and The Golden Land: The Golden Land is a play that every immigrant should be expected to see and should be playing in every elementary, high school and college across the…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 11:36AM
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is Catching the Dough by Suzanna Bowling

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is Catching the Dough: SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark enters the New Year after a landmark and record-breaking 2012, over the course of which the smash-hit Broadwa…

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:54AM

La Rivista’s New Performer Chris Barrett’s Has a Fan in Eric Michael Gillett by Suzanna Bowling

La Rivista's New Performer Chris Barrett's Has a Fan in Eric Michael Gillett: Following a successful four-month run at San Martin, Chris Barrett brings his music to La Rivista on Restaurant …

SOURCE: Times Square Chronicles at 08:28AM

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