Playwright David Mamet Will Not Allow Post-Show Talks About His Work
by Stephi Wild
- Jul 10, 2017
The Guardian reports that playwright David Mamet has placed a ban on any post-show panels about his work, something that has become commonplace in theatres and cinemas. The license to stage one of Mamet's plays, most famously including House of Games and Glengarry Glen Ross, now includes a clause preventing any official debates within two hours of a performance. Every post-show talk that violates this clause results in a loss of licence and a fine of $25,000.
40 Years Ago Tomorrow, Penguin Rep Was Born
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 29, 2017
When Penguin Rep Theatre opens its month-long run of COBB, Lee Blessing's play about the legendary baseball player Ty Cobb, today, it will be exactly 40 years to the day since the enterprising company gave its first performance...
Different Stages Closes Season with Ronald Harwood's THE DRESSER
by A.A. Cristi
- May 25, 2017
Different Stages closes its 2015-2016 season with Ronald Harwood's The Dresser. 'Sir', the last of the great but dying breed of English actor managers, is struggling to keep a grip on his sanity and complete his 227th performance of King Lear.
BWW Review: QUARTET at Little Colonel Playhouse
by Keith Waits
- May 19, 2017
Getting older. We're all doing it, every minute of every day, whether we like it or not. Time exempts no one even as it robs us of qualities and attributes that once made us who we were, gifts us with new ones, and leaves certain things at our very crux unchanged. The Little Colonel Players' current production of Ronald Harwood's Quartet allows us a poignant glimpse into the lives of four retired opera singers as they come to terms with what they were and who they are.
Penguin Rep Theatre Opens 40th Season with TRAYF
by Julie Musbach
- May 7, 2017
Penguin Rep Theatre, the award-winning professional Equity theatre under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M. Horn, opens its 40th season with Trayf, a new play by Lindsay Joelle.
Photo Coverage: Sidney J. Burgoyne Performs at The Iridium
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
- Apr 13, 2017
Sidney J. Burgoyne performed Just A Little Bit More at The Iridium (www.theiridium.com) on April 11. Just A Little Bit More is a musical marathon featuring Burgoyne with the words and music of Stephen Sondheim, Noel Coward, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Thornton Wilder, Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse, Ronald Harwood, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Billy Wilder, Arthur Schwartz and Dorothy Fields, as his co-stars.
Penguin Rep Theatre Announces its 40th Anniversary Season
by BWW News Desk
- Apr 12, 2017
Penguin Rep Theatre, the award-winning professional Equity theatre in Stony Point (Rockland County), New York under the leadership of founding artistic director Joe Brancato and executive director Andrew M. Horn, announces its 40th anniversary season.
Full Casting Announced for I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
by BWW News Desk
- Jan 31, 2017
In 2017 Watford Palace Theatre proudly presents the world premiere musical I Capture the Castle, based on the iconic novel by Dodie Smith, and co-produced with the Octagon Theatre Bolton and Kevin Wallace Limited, in association with Deborah Ward.
BWW Review: THE DRESSER, Duke of York's Theatre, 13 October 2016
by Aliya Al-Hassan
- Oct 14, 2016
In the theatre it is well known that; no matter what, the show must go on. This sentiment has rarely been portrayed so poignantly as it is in Ronald Harwood's Olivier award-nominated play The Dresser. First performed in 1980, the play returns to the West End in a fabulous revival of the tragic comedy that delves into the psyche of an actor well past his prime.
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