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Nell Benjamin on Laughing at Bullies & the Sentimental Inspiration Behind Her Play The Explorers Club

Nell Benjamin on Laughing at Bullies & the Sentimental Inspiration Behind Her Play The Explorers Club

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Nell Benjamin co-wrote music and lyrics for Legally Blonde, which earned her and her husband, Laurence O’Keefe, a 2007 Tony Award nomination for best score. Benjamin and O'Keefe began collaborating while attending Harvard together, and their shows include The Mice, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Cam Jansen, and Huzzah! Along the way, she has won a ...

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Martin Moran on Finding Fresh Inspiration from John Guare's Acting Debut in 3 Kinds of Exile

Martin Moran on Finding Fresh Inspiration from John Guare's Acting Debut in 3 Kinds of Exile

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The acclaimed solo performer and Broadway vet Martin Moran is currently in previews in Atlantic Theater Company’s world premiere of John Guare’s 3 Kinds of Exile. Moran kicks the evening off with a fascinating monologue about a young refugee who leaves Eastern Europe for England in 1939, followed by a section in which Guare himself ...

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Vanya Playwright Christopher Durang on Making Stage Magic With Three of His Closest Friends

Vanya Playwright Christopher Durang on Making Stage Magic With Three of His Closest Friends

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It’s been a special season for Christopher Durang, whose latest comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, has already won Best Play honors from the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics’ Circle and is nominated for six 2013 Tony Awards. Even sweeter: the fact that Durang is sharing the experience of ...

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George C. Wolfe on Nora Ephron's Strength, Tom Hanks' Smarts & Why Audiences Adore Lucky Guy

George C. Wolfe on Nora Ephron's Strength, Tom Hanks' Smarts & Why Audiences Adore Lucky Guy

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One of Broadway's most honored and respected directors, George C. Wolfe has won Tonys for his work on plays (both parts of Angels in America) and musicals (Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk). Wolfe branched out into films such as Nights in Rodanthe in recent years, but luckily for NYC theatergoers, he returned this ...

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Tony-Nominated Director Diane Paulus on Bringing Her ‘Dangerous’ Circus-Inspired Pippin to Broadway

Tony-Nominated Director Diane Paulus on Bringing Her ‘Dangerous’ Circus-Inspired Pippin to Broadway

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Diane Paulus first took Broadway by storm in 2009, when her vibrant interpretation of Hair in Central Park transferred to the Hirschfeld Theatre. Since her acclaimed Broadway debut, the three-time Tony-nominated director has helmed two more groundbreaking revivals on the Great White Way: a passionate Porgy and Bess in 2012 and a reimagined, circus-inspired Pippin in 2013 ...

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Director Michael Wilson on Dinners With the Foote Family & Falling in Love With The Trip to Bountiful

Director Michael Wilson on Dinners With the Foote Family & Falling in Love With The Trip to Bountiful

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Over the past 16 years, director Michael Wilson has become one of the premiere interpreters of Horton Foote’s vast catalogue of plays depicting family life in Texas. Wilson collaborated with the esteemed playwright until his death in 2009, notably on the Broadway production of Dividing the Estate and the off-Broadway trilogy The Orphans’ Home Cycle, as ...

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I'll Eat You Last Playwright John Logan on Why Hollywood Will Never See Another Character Like Sue Mengers

I'll Eat You Last Playwright John Logan on Why Hollywood Will Never See Another Character Like Sue Mengers

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Tony winner and three-time Oscar nominee John Logan is back on Broadway with I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers, his first show since the 2010 award-winning drama Red. As in Red, Logan is bringing a historical figure back to vivid life, but this time the artist in question is one of Hollywood’s ...

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Cinderella Director Mark Brokaw on How Rodgers & Hammerstein Inspired Childhood Dreams of a Life in the Theater

Cinderella Director Mark Brokaw on How Rodgers & Hammerstein Inspired Childhood Dreams of a Life in the Theater

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Mark Brokaw has guided the New York premieres of plays by America’s best contemporary writers, including the original staging of Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winner How I Learned to Drive, Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth and Lobby Hero, Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees in Honey Drown and Nicky Silver’s The Lyons ...

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Lyle Kessler on What Spurred Him to Write Orphans & Why the Play 'Celebrates the Human Spirit'

Lyle Kessler on What Spurred Him to Write Orphans & Why the Play 'Celebrates the Human Spirit'

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Philadelphia-born playwright Lyle Kessler began his career as an actor, studying with Lee Strasberg at The Actors Studio before turning his attention to writing plays. Kessler’s dramas, including The Watering Place, which opened on Broadway in 1969, are known for their gritty realism and dark humor. After spending the past 30 years in Los Angeles, Kessler ...

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Douglas Carter Beane Recalls How a Book, a Retreat & a Screen Saver Inspired Broadway's The Nance

Douglas Carter Beane Recalls How a Book, a Retreat & a Screen Saver Inspired Broadway's The Nance

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Four-time Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane is showing audiences another side of his talent in the new Broadway play The Nance, a burlesque-set drama starring Nathan Lane about gay life in 1930s New York. Beane has, of course, created memorable and hilarious scripts for Sister Act, Xanadu, Lysistrata Jones and the current hit revival of Cinderella, as ...

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