Going to Extremes to Seek Dramatic Accuracy

September 6th, 2010 by

A New York dominatrix taught Domination 101 to Sutton Foster and others in Second Stage’s “Trust” so they could portray S&M accurately.



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Single, and Singular, Women Become Her

September 4th, 2010 by

In “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” on Broadway, Cherry Jones gets to play yet another strong-willed woman.



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Unlikely Path: Carrying Actors From Newcastle

September 4th, 2010 by

Just as the miners portrayed in “The Pitmen Painters” never stray from their roots, the actors are themselves an unusual example of loyalty and collaboration.



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Theater Review | ‘Vision Disturbance’: Seeing in Just 2 Dimensions as Her Marriage Breaks Up

September 3rd, 2010 by

In Christina Masciotti’s “Vision Disturbance,” a Greek-born woman experiences a strange eye disorder while going through a divorce.



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Theater Review | ‘It Must Be Him’: Has-Been Writer Hopes to Break Out of a Slump

September 3rd, 2010 by

In “It Must Be Him,” a comedy by Kenny Solms, Peter Scolari plays a television writer who’s trying to revive his career.



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Urban Athlete: Chorus-Line Calisthenics

September 3rd, 2010 by

For beginning hoofers or advanced, Broadway dance routines can be an alternative to the gym.



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You Never Forget That Star-Struck Encounter With Your Idol

September 2nd, 2010 by

Actors recall how long-ago backstage encounters with their idols changed their lives.



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Theater Talkback: Just When You Think You Know Somebody . . .

September 2nd, 2010 by

Sometimes performers make you see familiar characters in new ways.



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Theater Review | ‘Troilus and Cressida’: The Cynical Side of Shakespeare, but With a River View

September 1st, 2010 by

At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a “Troilus and Cressida” that doesn’t shortchange the title characters.



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Nonprofit Theaters Take On Bold Broadway Ventures This Fall

August 31st, 2010 by

The Public Theater and Lincoln Center Theater, both nonprofits, are undertaking financially ambitious productions for the 2010-11 Broadway season.



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