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  • 2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Jeryl Brunner

    One of the most anticipated shows this Broadway season is Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Floyd Collins. For three decades, devoted fans of the musical have been waiting for the production to have a major run and the time is finally here. The show centers on a Kentucky cave explorer, (or spelunker), who becomes pinned by a falling 27 pound rock inside a narrow cave and cannot free himself. Based on a true story, the 1925 rescue attempt drew a media circus.

  • 2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Jeryl Brunner

    Dayna and Brian Lee and their production company, AF Creative Media, have emerged as powerful forces in theater. Just last month they won Olivier Awards for their West End shows Giant and Fiddler On The Roof. And their proverbial mantle already has three Tony Awards, including one for Angels in America, which they won within a year of launching AF Creative Media.

  • 3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Jeryl Brunner

    “Love,” as Maya Angelou wrote, “recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Love can transcend obstacles. It transforms lives. And in the case of the Broadway musical Maybe Happy Ending, love inspires two very lifelike robots to recharge in seismic ways. There’s Claire (Helen J. Shen) a Helperbot 5 and Oliver, (Darren Criss), an older model HelperBot 3.

  • 3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Jeryl Brunner

    Since 1986, the Lucille Lortel Awards have been celebrating excellence in Off-Broadway theater. Named for visionary producer Lucille Lortel, who was called “Queen of Off Broadway,” the awards honor her legacy. In her seven-decade career, Lortel was known for nurturing new playwrights, actors, directors and designers. She bolstered talents like Adrienne Kennedy, Terrence McNally, David Mamet and Wendy Wasserstein.

  • 1 month ago | forbes.com | Jeryl Brunner

    This past November when Deirdre O’Connell was sent the script of a quartet of Caryl Churchill’s short plays that would be performed together, there was no question that she had to be a part of the ensemble. “I knew that my life was about to be swallowed up with the plays. There was the brilliance of the writing. And it’s rare to feel there is only mining and nothing incomplete about it,” says the Tony-winning actor about the mosaic of themes and characters in Churchill’s plays Glass. Kill.

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25 Jul 24

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4 Aug 23

Don't miss @JulieBesonen's magnificent story about Sardi's beloved bartender Joe Petrsoric. After 55 years "stirring, shaking and pouring," Joe is hanging up his maroon jacket. "This job was made for me. If I’m born again, I will come right back here." https://t.co/mClcyzQGMp