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David Shiner is up to his old tricks (and a bunch of new ones, too!) in the world premiere of Old Hats at off-Broadway’s Signature Center, alongside his longtime clowning partner Bill Irwin. Shiner began his career as a street mime, before graduating to tour in Cirque du Soleil’s Nouvelle Experience in 1990. Three years ...

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Paul Downs Colaizzo’s playwriting career is unfolding in fairy-tale fashion, with Really Really, a play he began when he was 21 (he’s now 27) getting a premiere run at Signature Theatre of Virginia before its current New York debut at MCC Theatre. Everything about Colaizzo’s off-Broadway debut is first rate, from his cast (including ...

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Reed Birney’s career proves that it’s possible to become the hottest stage actor in town on the far side of 50. Consider his resume in the past four years alone: Since his blistering performance as a sexual abuser in Sarah Kane’s Blasted, Birney has starred in new plays at Roundabout (Tigers Be Still, The ...

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It’s not easy to hold the attention and sympathy of an audience in a solo show, but Martin Moran has mastered this very difficult theatrical form. In his astonishing, Obie-winning 2004 piece, The Tricky Part, Moran shared the chilling story of being abused by a camp counselor from age 12 to 15. (If you missed it ...

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Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman first teamed up with his friend Ethan Hawke in 1991 to create New York City's innovative Malaparte Theater Company. Hawke and Sherman became artistic collaborators—Hawke starred in Sherman’s short play Sons and Fathers, then directed his full-length dramedy Veins and Thumbtacks. After reuniting on Sherman’s well-received Things We Want ...

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Peter Kulok has worked on Broadway for more than 30 years as a business manager, general manager, producer and now house manager in Shubert Organization theaters. For the past decade, his home base has been the Majestic Theatre, home since January 1988 to The Phantom of the Opera. With duties that include the daily running of the ...

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Christopher Jackson has left the world of musicals behind this winter to join Atlantic Theater Company's rollicking new roller derby comedy, The Jammer. The actor, who is best known for his roles in In the Heights, The Lion King and Memphis, plays badass 1950s roller derby star Charlie Heartbreak in Pulitzer Prize finalist Rolin Jones’ colorful ...

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Sharr White began writing plays more than 15 years ago, after earning an M.F.A. from the graduate acting program at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. This former aspiring actor now divides his time between playwriting, a fulltime job as a fashion advertising copywriter and raising two sons with his wife in the picturesque Hudson ...

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Merwin Foard has been a busy Broadway actor for more than 30 years, since his spring 1982 debut in the ensemble of Show Boat. Blessed with a big voice and winning stage presence, Foard has managed to play historical figures in three musicals—1776, Assassins and now Annie, in a winning performance as FDR—while building his ...

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“Terror” shouldn’t be in the vocabulary of a writer who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, after having been a Pulitzer finalist twice in the past five years. We’re referring to Quiara Alegria Hudes, whose award-winning play, Water By the Spoonful, is currently in previews at Second Stage. It’s the second in a ...