Harry Haun

1 week ago | observer.com | Harry Haun

Mark Linn-Baker (here with Russell Daniels) stars as the hilariously ailing Argan in Red Bull Theater’s brisk revival of Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid. Photo: Carol RoseggThe neurotic Larry Appleton of TV’s Perfect Strangers, starring Off-Broadway in a 400-year-old Molière farce? Can it be? Not only can it—it is, and the gifted Mark Linn-Baker says it’s his idea.

1 month ago | observer.com | Harry Haun

Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in Death Becomes Her. Matthew MurphyJennifer Simard is nominated for a Tony this season, as Best Actress in a Musical. So is her Death Becomes Her co-star, Megan Hilty. Playing frenemies whose fur-flying ferocity lasts more than a lifetime or two, theirs is, almost, a dueling performance.

1 month ago | observer.com | Harry Haun

Joanna Gleason and Andrew Barth Feldman in We Had A World Jeremy DanielAlmost four decades have slipped by, but people still recall the love and compassion Joanna Gleason poured generously into the Baker’s Wife in Sondheim’s first romp Into the Woods. It won her a 1988 Tony Award and a place of distinction in the theatrical community. Once witnessed, that Gleason glow is not forgotten. Thing is, it hasn’t been seen in some time—at least not on stage in New York.

2 months ago | playbill.com | Harry Haun

Tony Award-winning composer William Finn passed away April 7 following a long illness. He was 73. In honor of his passing, Playbill is republishing this article from 2016 where, on the eve of the revival of his musical Falsettos, Finn recalled the inspiration behind the seminal work. Falsettos begins with four Jews in a room bitching.

Mar 26, 2025 | observer.com | Harry Haun

Kate Baldwin (center) in rehearsal with the company of Love Life Benjamin MillerNellie Forbush, Dolly Levi, Anna Leonowens, Marian Paroo—and now, finally, Susan Cooper. On Broadway, Kate Baldwin has done a modest handful of roles—like a Tony-nominated turn as Sharon McLonergan in the 2009 revival of Finian’s Rainbow—but she is best known as the go-to singer for a gargantuan gallery of musical theater heroines. How many that could be, she hasn’t a clue.