Brief Encounter

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Edie Falco

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Walter Bobbie

Few works of contemporary art can boast the long life span of English writer Nick Hornby's 1996 novel "High Fidelity."

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jeff Calhoun

Director and choreographer Jeff Calhoun is an old pro when it comes to Broadway musical revivals. But with the new Big River, he takes on a much grander venture.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Jim Norton

Any dedicated New York theatregoer knows that actor Jim Norton has been on a roll for some time.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Lucy Prebble

What would former Masters of the Universe Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow think if they knew the story of their late, great corporation, Enron, was being told on stage by a twentysomethin…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Sutton Foster

Culture Monster: Review: André Previn's 'Brief Encounter' premieres in Houston by Mark Swed

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Stephen Schwartz

Composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz, one of the creative wizards behind the smash Wicked, was recently in Kansas City to help bring his TV musical, "Geppetto," to the stage.

Slide Show: 'Brief Encounter'

Photos from Kneehigh Theater's stage adaptation of the 1946 film.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Thomas Meehan

Thomas Meehan's major hit project prior to co-writing the libretto of The Producers was penning the smash, Annie. Now, he brings his know-how for structure and craft to the expected smash, H…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With John Breglio

John Breglio has long been an important player in the New York theatre community.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Neil Pepe

A chat with the artistic director of the Atlantic Theater Company, Neil Pepe.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jim Walton

Time goes by, everything else keeps changing, but Jim Walton still has the same boyish looks of 20 years ago, when he played Franklin Shepard in the flop Broadway staging of Stephen Sondheim…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Christine Baranski

Television comedy mainstay Christine Baranski, back on Broadway in Boeing-Boeing, has not been neglecting the theatre in recent years.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Joe Dowling

The American theatre community knows Joe Dowling as a director, and artistic director of Minnesota's Guthrie Theatre.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Nilo Cruz

In 2003, playwright Nilo Cruz was the stealth winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

'Brief Encounter,' based on Noel Coward one-act, makes a very special affair by Joe Dziemianowicz (****)

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Mark Brokaw

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Paulo Szot

A Brief Encounter That Unleashes Long-Repressed Emotion

Kneehigh’s Brief Encounter is a giddily spinning zoetrope of interlocking illusions, an uninhibited fetish of Inhibition itself.

Brief Encounter - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

This lovingly imaginative rumination on an iconic film is a joyous burst of theatrical inventiveness.

Theater Review | 'Brief Encounter': Arm’s-Length Soul Mates, Swooning but Stoically Chaste by Ben Brantley

The acrobatics of love are performed in high style in “Brief Encounter,” which is surely the most enchanting work of stagecraft ever inspired by a movie.

Brief Encounter: A Tune With a View

Brief Encounter, a re-imagining of the film based on the Noel Coward one-act play Still Life, enlivens the classic romantic melodrama with dance, movement, film projections and songs —…

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Tony Kushner

This holiday season, Tony Kushner is coming to a screen, stage and book store near you.