Photo: Alex Winter & Keanu Reeves for "Waiting for Godot"—Andy Henderson via "Variety"
#SamuelBeckett #JamieLloyd #Revival #Theater #Broadway #LegitimateTheater #WaitingForGodot #KeanuReevws #AlexWinter
#legitimatetheater — Public Fediverse posts
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Photo: Mario Ruiz/Getty via Vulture
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Photo: With John Cunningham & Dean Jones in Stephen Sondheim & George Furth's "Company" on Broadway, 1970—Martha Swope via New York Public Library
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"You know, I was the one…even when I was in Playboy, I was the one sitting on the ground at Samuel French, reading Tennessee Williams and and Eugene O'Neill and Sam Shepard. I don't know why, but I just really loved films and I loved theater and musical theater and movies."
—Pamela AndersonSource: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/pamela-anderson-calls-entering-criterion-190000624.html
Photo: In the Criterion Closet—Criterion/Indie Wire via Yahoo!
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Get well soon, Audra McDonald!
Photo: Luis Alberto Rodriguez/"Vogue"
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Photo: "The Evening Standard"/Mirrorpix/Getty via "People"
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Photo: With fellow Tony winners James Naughton, Tyne Daly, Robert Morse—Ron Galella/Getty via "People"
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#RIPAdrianBailey #AdrianBailey
"He survived decades longer than they predicted because he was Adrian Bailey."
Image: Tribute from Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill—Instgram via "The Hollywood Reporter"
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#RIPGenaRowlands #GenaRowlands
Image: "Faces"—Continental Distributing via Collider
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#RIPGenaRowlands #GenaRowlands
Photo: With Peter Falk for "A Woman Under the Influence"—C. Tavin/Everett/Shutterstock via "People"
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#RIPGenaRowlands #GenaRowlands
Photo: With Bette Davis for "Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter"—CBS via eBay
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#RIPGenaRowlands #GenaRowlands
Photo: With Martha Plimpton for Woody Allen's "Another Woman"—Orion Pictures via Time Out
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"Honey, you're gayer than a clutch purse on Tony night!"
--Karen Walker, "Will & Grace"#TonyAwards #Tonys #Theater #LegitimateTheater #Pride #PrideMonth
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"Heather Hitchens, the president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, which presents the Obies, called the grants a new path forward for the awards, saying the move 'genuinely reflects the ethos of the Awards as well as the Off & Off Off Broadway movements – which is to continuously evolve and meet the moment.'"
Obie Awards to Nix Pomp, Grant Fete Budget to Winners
https://www.deadline.com/2024/01/obie-awards-1235804827/
Photo: American Theatre Wing#Obie #Obies #ObieAwards #OffBroadway #OffOffBroadway #LegitimateTheater
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"Like Izzard's production of Charles Dickens's 'Great Expectations' this year, 'Hamlet' is adapted by Izzard’s brother, Mark Izzard, and directed by Selena Cadell."
I Knew Her, Horatio: Eddie Izzard to Bring Solo 'Hamlet' Off-B'way This Winter
https://www.theatermania.com/news/eddie-izzard-to-bring-solo-hamlet-to-off-broadway-this-winter_1722399/ via TheaterMania
Photo: Amanda Searle via TheaterMania
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"There can, though, be layers of meaning that still surprise you 10 weeks into a run, he says. 'Usually on a wet Wednesday afternoon matinee, you'll suddenly go "oh, that's what that line means."'"
David Tennant Lauds 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's 1st Folio With Soliloquy From Scottish Play
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67337127.amp via BBC News
Image: BBC News
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"While the building began life as a religious meeting house, as confirmed by a Royal Charter in 1406, it hosted its first theatrical performance in 1445.
"Several pieces of evidence suggest that the Bard himself performed at the venue."Zounds!: UK Theater Revamp Uncovers Floorboards Trodden by Shakespeare
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/theater-floorboards-shakespeare-uncovered-2376341/amp-page via Artnet/"Guardian"
Photo: W. Norfolk Council via Artnet
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#RIPTinaHowe #TinaHowe #Theater #LegitimateTheater
Image: Grove Press via Amazon
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"In her fiction, Wharton would have been able to flesh out her protagonist and add more psychological depth. She could have flashed back to Kate’s friendship with Agnes and her subsequent relationship with John. In the play, the latter seems like such a basic chap that you have to wonder what Kate saw in him at all."
Lost Edith Wharton Play Staged
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/edith-wharton-s-lost-play-the-shadow-of-a-doubt-brings-the-novelist-s-attempt/article_a2ae63d9-12f6-5833-99bd-d63e8dd98b1b.html "Toronto Star"
Pic: DebraYeo/David Cooper
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Never mind "The Warriors," I need Lin-Manuel Miranda to adapt "The Wanderers" into a musical!
Image: Orion/Warner Bros. via Film Affinity US
#TheWanderers #Wanders #LinManuelMiranda #PhilipKaufman #RichardPrice #Dion #TheWarriors #Warriors #Theater #LegitimateTheater #MusicalTheater #Movies #Film #Cinema #Musicals #MusicalComedy #Hollywood #Books #Novels #Music -
"'It’s a way to challenge preconceived notions of what it means to be an American, whose backs did we build it on, what have we accomplished and succeeded in writing this declaration and the promises within it, and what do we still have to work on?'"
Female, Trans, Nonbinary Thesps Sing & Sign Declararion in '1776' Revival
https://wtop.com/entertainment/2023/06/move-over-hamilton-its-time-for-a-fresh-take-on-1776-at-dcs-kennedy-center/ via WTOP
Photo: Joan Marcus via QCity Metro
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"The play premiered on Broadway in 1961 at the Cort Theatre (now the James Earl Jones Theatre), directed by Howard Da Silva, and starred Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Godfrey Cambridge, Sorrell Booke and Beah Richards. The play was later adapted into the musical 'Purlie,' which premiered on Broadway in 1970."
Revival: 'Purlie Victorious' to Star Leslie Odom Jr
https://deadline.com/2023/06/purlie-victorious-broadway-leslie-odom-jr-preview-date-cast-1235417759/ Deadline
Photo: Theater Mania
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"Throw in the handful of strong salutes to the WGA and its crusade for a fair wage, and the heart of the Tonys was in the right — which is to say left — place.
"Sunday’s winners were proudly nonbinary and queer and Jewish and pro-union and at least for a while, they weren’t getting cut off by the band."TV Review: 76th Tony Awards Boost B'way, All of US Theater
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/2023-tonys-review-ariana-debose-broadway-theater-1235512974/ via "Hollywood Reporter"
Photo: Flying Tiger Antiques
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"Honey, you're gayer than a clutch purse on Tony night."
Original image: KoMut/NBC/Universal
#Tonys #TonyAwards #WillAndGrace #Broadway #LegitimateTheater #Theater
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama was first presented in 2004 off-Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club. It transferred to Broadway in 2005 with a cast headed by Cherry Jones, Brían F. O’Byrne, Adriane Lenox, and Heather Goldenhersh."
Tyne Daly, Liev Schreiber to Lead 1st B'way Revival of 'Doubt'
https://www.theatermania.com/news/tyne-daly-and-liev-schreiber-to-lead-first-broadway-revival-of-doubt_1704059/ via Theater Mania
Image: David Gordon
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Photo: "Bubbling Brown Sugar" on Broadway, '76, a revue celebrating Eubie Blake & the Harlem Renaissance
Clockwise, from top right: Vivian Reed, Avon Long, Josephine Premice, Joseph AttlesMoe Septee Inc./Media House via Pinterest
#BubblingBrownSugar #Theater #Musical #MusicalTheater #Revue #LegitimateTheater #Broadway #EubieBlake #HarlemRenaissance -
Photo: "Pump Boys and Dinettes" on Broadway, '82
Image: "Playbill
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All-Femme Legit 'Dracula' to Nod Scotland Roots of Gothic Horror Classic
via the "Scotsman"
#Dracula #Scotland #LegitimateTheater #Theater #Gothic #GothicHorror #Horror #BramStoker
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Standing O: Museum of B'way Opens, & It’s Gloriously Gay
https://www.queerty.com/museum-broadway-opens-gloriously-gay-20221115 via Queerty #MuseumOfBroadway #Broadway #Theater #LegitimateTheater