New Beginnings in the Year of the Dragon Do you need a fresh start to wipe the slate clean and set sights on new goals? Beginning with the Gregorian calendar’s New Year on Jan 1, to the Lunar New Year just ushered in with the first new moon of the lunar calendar, January has provided …
The Return of In-Person Oral History The League of Professional Theatre Women’s first Oral History Project of the season celebrated a return to in-person events on Monday October 17, as producer Pat Addiss shared wisdom and humor with two-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, television anchor and theatre critic Roma Torre at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. …
“From the time I was about twelve, I never stopped acting. Acting is my business.” “If you’re going to play a character other than yourself, it’s better that you bring that character to the first rehearsal…You have to leave yourself at home… When I’m immersed in a scene, I leave Angela at home.” “I’d like …
“A great actor at the height of her powers.”
On February 12th, Ms. Lee was the subject of the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Oral History at the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Robert Viagas conducted the interview. Baayork Lee has performed in over a dozen Broadway shows. For the original production of A Chorus Line, she created the role of Connie, while serving as …
The purpose of theatre is to wound our memory. — Paula Vogel Paula Vogel, Tony-nominated playwright for Indecent, was interviewed by Linda Winer, in an Oral History presented to League members and their guests at the NY Library for the …
In SUFFS, the new Broadway musical which opened this week at the Music Box, a character says, “Progress is possible, but it’s not guaranteed.” For those of us who are alternating between hurling things at TV news and finding some way to prevent our country from sliding into autocracy, here are some tactics that might … Continue reading
A scene from Trafficker – L-R: Benz, Mon, Noon and Paeng Photo: Eve Sanchez For close to five decades, Bond Street Theatre, based in New York City, has put its mission of using theatre for peacebuilding, empowerment and healing into practice in more than sixty countries. This photo was taken during their most recent project … Continue reading
By Lisa Barnes “Hawaii. It either loves you or it spits you out.” These were the comforting, parting words from a friend as I boarded the plane for that dot in the middle of the Pacific. My friend had founded a theatre on Maui and ran it for six years. Until Hawaii spit her out. … Continue reading
By Gabriella Rose Balsam A new instrument, tuned to stretch and amplify our theatre community’s range in casting and hiring, has begun to play its unfamiliar tune. RISE Theatre —Representation, Inclusion, & Support for Employment, was created in a partnership between The Miranda Family Fund and Maestra Music Inc. RISE seeks to build a more … Continue reading
By Alice Emery A bilingual interview. For Spanish please see below. In a ceremony on October 10, 2023, playwright Petrona de la Cruz received the Gilder/Coigney 2023 International Theatre Award in New York City, awarded by the League of Professional Theater Women. Among other awards, De la Cruz has also received the Rosario Castellanos Literature … Continue reading
Susan Stroman, Five Time Tony Award® winner took to the stage November 17th in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts for the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Oral History Project interviewed by Sharon Washington, Tony Award® nominee. One of the most successful women working in theater today, Stroman talked candidly about the … Continue reading
Women are funny. We have to be. Dealing with indignities, setbacks, patriarchy, invisibility as we age, consistently underestimated, we find a way to cope. Humor – our clever way of flipping the situation – is a natural. Maybe that’s why we’re so good at dramedy. “Start funny, end serious” may be what we choose. There … Continue reading
By Susan Jonas Created by Founder/Executive Producer Casey Childs and Project Director Sally Plass, The Primary Stages Oral History Project is one of the most significant repositories of primary source theater history in recent years. The archive features lengthy video interviews with close to 200 leading lights of the Off- and Off-Off Broadway Movement, including: … Continue reading
Do yourself a favor and read the new Ann Patchett novel, Tom Lake, before Reese Witherspoon makes the mini-series with perhaps, if they haven’t aged out of it, Meryl Streep as retired actor Lara Kenison, and the three Gummer daughters as Lara’s children. The novel begins with community theatre auditions for Our Town and spends … Continue reading
Dramaturg, producer, activist and dog-lover Susan Jonas interviews elite animal trainer, Lydia DesRoche, acting coach to a menagerie bitten by the theatre bug. Continue reading
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