For Broadway Backwards, Mrs. Brady Gets Ready To Go A Little Wild Again
Feb 4th, 2010 · Florence Henderson talks about her busy career, her life as a TV mom, and what it's like to be asked by strangers for hugs.
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Zanes Does Broadway For The Smaller Set
Jan 3rd, 2010 · Dan Zanes is a big star in kids' music. And he's collaborated with artists as diverse as Natalie Merchant, Lou Reed and The Blind Boys of Alabama. Zanes' latest release, 76 Trombones, is a tribute to Broadway music, kid-style. He teams up with stars of the Great White Way including Carol Channing (Hello Dolly!) and Matthew Broderick.
'Romeo And Juliet': Just As You Misremembered It
Dec 29th, 2009 · In a new off-Broadway production, Shakespeare's classic is retold through the fuzzy recollections of people who slept through English class. The play is more about how we remember — or thought we remembered — the greatest love story of all time, and less about who said what on that balcony or whatever.
Illusionist's Show Becoming A Pretty Slick Trick
Dec 26th, 2009 · Sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay is breaking in a new show. It's been playing Chicago and will open next week at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. It's even said to be on its way to Broadway. Host Scott Simon speaks with Jay about his new show, "Ricky Jay: A Rogue's Gallery."
In 'Race,' David Allen Grier Confronts Painful Issues
Dec 14th, 2009 · A new Broadway play from writer David Mamet has audience members shifting in their seats. It's about the prickly and painful issues that arise out of a legal case in which a wealthy white man is accused of raping a black woman. Actor David Alan Grier, who plays a lawyer, says Mamet is exploding the notion that America has moved past racism.
'Little Night Music' Revival Keeps It All In The Family
Dec 13th, 2009 · The first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's classic A Little Night Music opens December 13th. And alongside its bold-name cast members — Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury — is Broadway newcomer Ramona Mallory. Her debut as the ingenue continues a family legacy: Her mother created the role in 1973, and her father played the character who falls for hers.
Fatal Shootout Mars Times Square Holiday Cheer
Dec 10th, 2009 · A plainclothes cop chased a Times Square scam artist through New York City sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanging gunfire that shattered Broadway theater and gift shop windows, before killing the suspect near a landmark hotel, police said.
'The Vibrator Play': Why Yes, It Is About Exactly That
Nov 20th, 2009 · Any short list of important young American playwrights would have to include Sarah Ruhl, who at age 35 has had work performed at major theaters around the country. She made her Broadway debut Nov. 19, with a period drama called In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play. But as Jeff Lunden reports, it's as much about intimacy and honesty as about sexuality.
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