The actress is back in concert mode at 76, and doing new material. She’s also looking forward to a bold new take on “Sunset Boulevard.”
Category: Theater
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George Clooney to Make Broadway Debut in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’
A stage adaptation of the film is planned for next spring, with Clooney playing the journalist Edward R. Murrow.
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A Night to Remember at the Opera, Complete With a Phantom
About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.
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A Broadway Star Gets Married With Help From Daniel Radcliffe
Lindsay Mendez, nominated for a Tony in “Merrily We Roll Along,” married actor J. Alex Brinson in a Monday ceremony officiated by castmate Jonathan Groff. Daniel Radcliffe was their ring bearer.
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By the Book Interview With Judi Dench
“They’re snapshots of the past: first-night gifts, holidays abroad, memories of lost friends and loved ones,” the award-winning actress says. Her latest, written with Brendan O’Hea, is “Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent.”
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‘The Keep Going Songs’ Review: Vexed by Grief and Worried About the Planet
Abigail and Shaun Bengson muse on death in their latest work, but its looseness makes it hard to get a handle on.
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Sting on Setting His Music to Dance in Message in a Bottle
In “Message in a Bottle,” a dance show opening at City Center, Sting’s songbook helps tell the story of a family fleeing conflict.
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A Starry Cast Navigates ‘Uncle Vanya’ and ‘Every Emotion Under the Sun’
Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Alison Pill and Anika Noni Rose discuss the new translation of Chekhov that brought them to the farm.
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Review: Steve Carell as the 50-Year-Old Loser in a Comic ‘Uncle Vanya’
Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it’s Chekhov with everything, except the main thing.
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‘Mary Jane’ Review: When Parenting Means Intensive Care
Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.
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Was Shakespeare Really Born in This Stratford-upon-Avon House?
Every year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as Shakespeare’s Birthplace. But was he really born there? A whole industry depends on it.
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Huey Lewis’s Music Makes ‘The Heart of Rock and Roll’
The new musical doesn’t take itself too seriously and has many winning moments — almost enough to eclipse the weaknesses of its story.