20 stories by "Beth Herstein"
. Our cast is still right next to the audience and it's constantly moving. So, I needed to maintain that detail and to make sure that our ensemble was a little brighter and bolder but still …
Iwuji is thrilled that through this production Hamlet will be performed for people who may not be familiar with Shakespeare's works, and for those in reduced circumstances and in prison for …
Through June 26 she'll be appearing as Hortensio in Shakespeare in the Park's all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew.
We had a pleasant, interesting discussion about The Color Purple, as well as his other work, and the issue of race in the performing arts.
Among other things, we talked about his nomination, the changing (and unchanging) faces of Broadway, and Airline Highway.
[Renée Fleming is] the opposite of the character in real life. It's almost disappointing. [laughs]. She's funny, and down-to-earth, and self-effacing. She's not larger than life in person. …
Marc's intelligence and energy, his self-proclaimed love of talk, and his enthusiasm for his profession were all evident when we spoke.
Among her new projects is Rappaccini's Daughter, which is enjoying its first extended run at Theater for the New City, from September 11-28. The operatic musical, a collaboration with compos…
Elizabeth Canavan, Rosal Colón, and Liza Colón-Zayas comprise the female part of the cast of Stephen Adly Guirgis' wonderful new play Between Riverside and Crazy, currently extended at the…
Robert Petkoff plays Minnesota Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey and Rob Campbell plays Albama Governor George Wallace.
Smith, an up-and-coming playwright herself, talked about this new version of Antony and Cleopatra, performing the play in three different cities, working with Tarell Alvin McCraney and the t…
Now, as Regular Singing rolls into town, The Public Theater is giving audiences a chance to discover, or rediscover, the first three plays chronicling the Apple family, and to view the four …
"We all became obsessed with Tennessee Williams. We could get degrees in Tennessee Williams at this point. We read the notebooks, the memoirs, the Lyle Leverich biography. When we were at Ca…
Featuring a terrific cast headed by Judith Light, Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos, the play takes place in a huge and elegant apartment (even by the standards of non-New Yorkers) on the Uppe…
Carvajal plays Nicola, the fiancee of Charlie (American Idiot's Stark Sands), who's torn between an exciting new life in London with Nicola and one in Northampton, where he has the chance to…
In the parts of Angel—both Angel Senior, a vaquero on Bick's ranch, and Angel Junior, his son—is Miguel Cervantes. Cervantes, who grew up in Texas, where Giant is largely set, has been w…
t. In the role of Jack (of Jack and the Beanstalk fame) is 24-year-old Gideon Glick, who first gained attention in New York as Ernst in the Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of Spring Aw…
Among the cast's many talented performers is Arnie Burton, who plays several roles, most notably Mrs. Bumbrake, who is nanny to Molly, the show's young heroine.
But when you scratch the surface, according to playwright Eric Simonson, whose Magic/Bird has just opened on Broadway, you'll find that the similarities outweigh the differences, and relate …
Not even five years out of the graduate program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, André Holland's been lighting up the New York stage.