The writer-performer of 'Tearsheets' and 'Elements of Flesh' left behind a career in TV and film after surviving a brain tumor, turning her focus and activism to the stage.
I wasn't particularly excited by sitting through another 'Funny Girl' revival. But I left understanding why tickets to see Lea Michele star as Fanny Brice in the musical are going for a king…
When Anaïs Mitchell believes in a project, she sticks with it. At least that was the case with "Hadestown," whose long road to Broadway and beyond began in 2006 with a couple of community…
In my ongoing quest to make all my original songs public, I offer
"Then Again" pulled from my "Who Knows" cd. A melancholy, yet hopeful
look at a love affair that ended- before it officiall…
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The comedian and author on studying laughter theory, industry frustrations and the perils of gigging at a racecourse
How did you get into comedy?I studied the history of variety and vaudevil…
The first four new Broadway shows of the Fall season begin performances this week, although they won't officially open until next month.  Two more shows were added to the Broadway 2022…
The standup on middle-child syndrome, the comedy scene in Berlin and the nightmare gig that she can't forget
What made you get into comedy?An unholy need for attention stemming from middle-c…
How this die-hard theatregoer ended up at a WWE wrestling event
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We spend a lot of time at TDF thinking about ways to encourage people who have never attended the theatre to try it. Devot…
I am begging every critic colleague, everyone who has seen Actors' Playhouse's Now and Then to NOT give away anything! One of the many pleasures in this drama laced with humor is watching th…
Hairspray celebrated its 20th Anniversary of Broadway's opening night on August 15th. To celebrate, original cast members got together in New York to commemorate the opening and recreate one…
Tim returns to the Edinburgh Festival exactly 50 years after Frank Dunlop's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat launched the show there into new territories. Gary Bond…
From what I have been able to ascertain, stage and screen actress Elsie Ferguson (1883-1961) didn't play vaudeville, although she was certainly referenced there, as one Martha Russell toured…
The standup on the highs and lows of the Edinburgh fringe, Zoom hecklers and why she doesn't have heroes
Who on the circuit always makes you laugh?I've always been impressed by Athena Kugble…
I've never held back when it comes to talking about sex. But after an attack while on holiday in Las Vegas, going to the police didn't feel like an option
Last November, after a string of re…
At one point in Theatre Y's ambulatory Laughing Song: A Walking Dream, Marvin Tate as George W. Johnson (the first Black American recording artist) is asked by a reporter at a press conferen…
I scarcely know anything about actor Philip Wood (1895-1940) apart from his credits, but those are enough to intrigue, and I am quite convinced that if he hadn't been felled by a heart attac…
When her family's code of silence was broken, the writer and performer Helen Wood began a journey that led to a new play, Let's Talk About Philip
In the summer of 1985 Philip, my only siblin…
"The Rise and Fall, then Brief and Modest Rise Followed by a Relative Fall of…Jean Claude Van Damme as Gleaned by a Single Reading of His Wikipedia Page Months Earlier" is the brobdinagian…
Our writer checked out two very different experiences in New York. In Netflix's TV re-creation, you fight Demogorgons. In "Cascando," you walk off your existential angst.
VIA MEDIA ANGLICANA IN A NEW JERUSALEM    We're in a vicarage kitchen in a small West Country town, its incumbent dealing with parishioners, a resentful, weary wife and t…
