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  • Colin Quinn tackles the Constitution in his new stand-up show
    The program for “Colin Quinn Unconstitutional” claims the show is “a new comedy.” That’s a bit misleading. Sure, there’s a director (Rebecca A. Trent) and basic staging: a lectern, a kind of balcony for important addresses to the audience, and bare-bones multimedia with modest, unfussy slides. But the... […]
  • ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ returns at Kazino with its brilliance intact
    Last fall’s most exciting sensation wasn’t a big Broadway musical but a scrappy outsider sneaking in under the radar. At first glance, “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” looked like it had little chance to make a lasting impression. This sung-through adaptation of a subplot from “War... […]
  • Why 'Virginia Woolf' is in Tonys trouble
    Broadway is in the grip of Tony fever — which means everybody’s behaving as if they were in that great Alexander Payne movie “Election.” This year, the role of Tracy Flick is being played by Jeffrey Richards, the prolific producer whose fine revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid... […]

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  • August Wilson's words came straight from his soul
    Stagecraft: The revered playwright had a talent for capturing how people really spoke, and his advice — 'keep your hands moving' — have hit home.Stage and film legend James Earl Jones once said, "It's hard for an actor to go wrong if he's true to the words that August has written." […]
  • Illuminating the power of change in the L.A. Basin
    Photo File: From the monumental to the mundane, a digital exhibition dips into the Southern California Edison photo archive to explore the 'breathtaking' history of the region from 1940 to '90.For nearly a century starting in the 1880s, photographers went from sluice to street corner to suburban pool to record one utility's efforts to ele […]
  • Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House
    Paint tests, monitoring devices and a new floor at Charles and Ray Eames' landmark home are all part of a pilot project of the Getty Conservation Institute's Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative.Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model […]

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Trailer: Waking Sleeping Beauty

“A terrific Hollywood inside sensibility plus an unblinking candor that lets the chips fall where they should….A remarkable and unexpectedly…

Photos: Pal Joey

Creative Team:   A Newly Re-Conceived American Classic!   PAL JOEY   Music & Lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, Book by Patrick Pacheco, Based on the short stories and “Pal Joey” libretto by John O’Hara, Musical Supervision / Direction,  Arrangements and orchestrations by…

Protected: Piano Vocal Book: Pal Joey

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BWW Reviews: MY LIFE WITH MEN… AND OTHER ANIMALS – A Beautiful Account of Love, Life & Culture

Monday, March 19, 2012 by Christina Mancuso Every once in a great while, a person comes across a play, musical, cabaret, or other production that is so inspiring, so magnetic, so unique, with a passionate performance, stellar direction, beautiful music, and ingenious sets that truly…

My Life With Men… And Other Animals In NYC March 15 to 18

The accomplished Italian theater artist Maria Cassi made her American stage debut March 9th through…

My life with My Life

What an exciting/exhausting/challenging two weeks I have had since a cargo box of pulley’s, fabric,…

NY Review: ‘My Life With Men…and Other Animals’

Reviewed by Clifford Lee Johnson III March 16, 2012 America’s energy problem would be solved…

Steve Jobs – - Making the Deal

About two years ago, I was walking down the path at the Kona Village Resort in Hawaii when I spotted a skeletal figure of a man coming from the opposite direction.  As he came abreast, I realized, “Omigod, that’s Steve Jobs.” “Steve?”  I said.  “Peter!” he replied. …

The Sad Hatter

The Sad Hatter Isabella Blow, discoverer of Alexander McQueen and Philip Treacy, wearer of the…

Tony McLean RIP 7/25/2011

It is with great sadness I learnt of the passing of Tony today.  He was…

The Many Trials of ‘Spider-Man’

In 1997, I was in the lobby of the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York,…

About: Waking Sleeping Beauty

For ten years after I left Disney, I had always wanted to tell what I considered the “true” story of what happened at Disney Animation during this amazing ten year period of time. For years the idea just rattled around until I was having coffee…

Trailer: Waking Sleeping Beauty

“A terrific Hollywood inside sensibility plus an unblinking candor that lets the chips fall where…

Waking Sleeping Beauty on DVD

An unprecedented look at Walt Disney and the Studio from yesteryears. Rare footage and interviews…

A Moment During Beauty and the Beast