The Encounter

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Portia

It's not easy to assume a leading role in a play that has already won every prize in the book.

San Francisco Run of <em>Brief Encounter</em>, Opening Sept. 16,Extended

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Desmond Heeley

Desmond Heeley, the 1968 Tony Award winner for designing sets and costumes for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is back on Broadway, Earnest-ly displaying his penchant for painterly wo…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jeff Goldblum

When the cast of the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's ghoulishly gripping The Pillowman was announced, the name that took many people by surprise was Jeff Goldblum.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Nicky Silver

The tart and funny playwright Nicky Silver is now a Broadway librettist with his book for the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Boys From Syracuse. The zippy George Abbott-Rodgers-…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Ira Weitzman

Don't recognize the name Ira Weitzman? If you're at all interested in the American musical theatre, you should.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Alan Ruck

Audiences around the country over the past year saw a new side of Alan Ruck, the actor best known for "Spin City" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."

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Using Congo and Belgians as a Metaphor For Iraq War By ANITA GATES
After its visual artistry, the most striking thing about Ping Chong's multidisciplinary work at La Mama is its resonance here and now.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Marie Mullen

When actress Marie Mullen came to the Atlantic Theater Company in 1998 as one of the stars of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, few people in the U.S. had heard of playwright Martin McDonagh.

PLAYBILL.COM's BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Ed Harris

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With David Ives

Collaborations as enduring as that of playwright David Ives and director-actor Walter Bobbie are hard to come by.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Fran Weissler

Fran Weissler freely admits that she had little exposure to theatre as a kid, and that she was not good at counting out change. That didn't stop her from being one of Broadway's major produc…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Marc Shaiman

Composer Marc Shaiman has a talent to stir up controversy, be it a live kiss with his partner on the Tony Awards or a public spat with fellow composer Michael John LaChiusa. But nothing tops…

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Rosie Perez

For the new year, one of Broadway's few hit plays, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, is getting a new cast Jan. 1.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With David Lindsay-Abaire by Kenneth Jones

The playwright of Shrek the Musical, Fuddy Meers and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit Hole drew on his old neighborhood to write Broadway's Good People.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Rob Ashford

For choreographer Rob Ashford, it all began in Beckley, WV, when he joined the local outdoor musical drama, Hatfields and McCoys, as a teenager. He was hooked. Flash forward more than 20 yea…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Philip Seymour Hoffman

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Jeffrey Carlson

Actor Jeffrey Carlson - of Taboo and "All My Children" fame - is growing up.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Stark Sands

Actor Stark Sands - on Broadway in the new musical American Idiot - is back in the army.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Allan S. Larson

Meet Allan Larson, the father - and one of the keepers of the flame - of late Rent writer Jonathan Larson.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Debra Monk

The actress known for playing earthy characters in Steel Pier, Company and Pump Boys and Dinettes takes on the part of a seasoned old-time producer in the new musical Curtains.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Zoe Kazan

For a 26-year-old actress, A Behanding in Spokane star Zoe Kazan has originated an impressive number of roles in new plays.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Anthony Rapp

"Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent" is the title of actor Anthony Rapp's autobiographical tome, which has just hit book stores around the country.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Michael Mayer

Spring Awakening is not Thoroughly Modern Millie, but the musicals do have a director in common.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Cameron Mackintosh

Producer Cameron Mackintosh, the most financially successful theatrical producer in history, still has a meal or two or three on his plate.