The Encounter

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Adam Rapp

For a few years after he first burst upon the New York scene, playwright Adam Rapp was most famous for his fecundity.

Brief Encounter<br> Review By DAVID BENEDICT

"Dirty Dancing," eat your heart out: If it's a no-holds-barred, thrillingly theatrical version of cinematic passion you're after, look no further.

Acclaimed U.K. <em>Brief Encounter</em> Will Start U.S. Tour at A.C.T. in San Francisco

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Stephen Mangan

Meet Norman. Of Broadway's new trilogy, The Norman Conquests, that is.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Tommy Krasker

Record producer Tommy Krasker talks about rescuing and recording the forgotten Broadway musical Kitty's Kisses.

International Hit Brief Encounter Now On Sale for Broadway Audiences

<em>Brief Encounter</em> Extends West End Run; Director Rice to Guest Star

The Pearl Project Blue Series: Something Blue and The Encounter - Reviewed by Nicole Villeneuve

For a project intent on offering new and diverse perspectives, the one-sided portrayal of Filipino history in Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza's "The Encounter" leaves audiences with no deeper or mo…

Tony Committee Releases First 2010-11 Eligibility Rulings - BRIEF ENCOUNTER, Christina Ricci, DAISY as Revival & More

The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the first time this season to decide the eligibility of 12 Broadway productions for the 2011 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards, prese…

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Rob Marshall

It's been a natural segue from Broadway to television and — now, with "Chicago" — to film for director-choreographer Rob Marshall who grew up a fan of such movie musicals as "My Fair Lad…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Molly Smith

Meet Molly Smith, the Pacific Northwest native who had the pioneering spirit to found a theatre in Alaska before she came East to take Arena Stage into its second act.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Maria Aitken

Director Maria Aitken talks about the challenges (and the comic payoff) of jamming the robust comedy The 39 Steps into a tiny Off-Broadway theatre.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris was to have made his Broadway debut last fall, in Assassins, but the musical was put on hold in the wake of 9/11. The former "Doogie Howser, MD" star has finally arrived …

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With David Hyde Pierce

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Hunter Foster

The year 2008 will see theatre artist Hunter Foster in all his various modes.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Rupert Holmes

Rupert Holmes, the Tony Award-winning songwriter, librettist and orchestrator of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is solving a new mystery this summer: the puzzle of putting together a new Broad…

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mark Lamos

Director Mark Lamos is inaugurating the 2005 Central Park season at the Delacorte this summer with a new production of Shakespeare's As You Like It.

PLAYBILL.COM BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Lynne Meadow

Lynne Meadow's career is marked by a thing not usually found in the theatre: constancy.

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Peter Krause

Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Nine saw heartthrob Antonio Banderas as Guido toiling over his history with women, now the company centers a new harem around alpha male Peter Krause …

'Gatz' and 'Brief Encounter' make for avant garde theater By ROBERT FELDBERG

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda has had 46 years to rest up for her triumphant Broadway return this year.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Elizabeth Franz

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally has been writing plays for 45 years. So the only surprising thing about the current festival of his work at the Kennedy Center is that it's taken this long for one to happen.

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Michael Cerveris

PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian has been part of the theatrical landscape for so long, it's slightly stunning to discover that Time Stands Still marks his Broadway debut as an actor.