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Laura Dave’s The First Husband: Sometimes Love Gets Messy
Monday, May 21st, 2012
by Charlene Giannetti on Reading Around
Annie Adams loves the film Roman Holiday. “It was my comfort movie,” she says. “It was, quite simply, my comfort.” Unfortunately for Annie, every viewing
Woman Around Town: Cookie Stark—The New Kid on the Block
Friday, April 13th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Woman Around Town
When Cookie Stark’s vocal coach and director, Eric Michael Gillett, gave her the song Let’s Talk Dirty to the Animals (by Gilda Radner), the #%!*
The Importance of Being Hans: Hans Hofmann Modernizes the Moderns
Friday, April 13th, 2012
by Ann Rebecca Bleefeld on Playing Around
Painter, teacher and mentor Hans Hofmann’s considerable reputation as an innovator of ideas and methods, as well as one of the great influences on American
Noel & Company
Sunday, April 8th, 2012
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
In early February 2012, actor/singer/writer/director Keith Merrill approached friend Mary Ellen Ashley, herself a singer/actress/producer with the idea of establishing what would eventually become a
Woman Around Town: Sara’s Kitchen
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
by Robin Weaver on Woman Around Town
For someone who rarely turns on the oven, it could be an intimidating experience to discuss cooking with Sara Moulton, the former executive chef of
Children (of All Ages)
Friday, October 28th, 2011
by Alix Cohen on Playing Around
The mostly Wasp-centric, observational plays of 80 year-old A.R. Gurney are like New York pretzel vendors: if you don’t see one on the block, there
Freud’s Last Session: Is There a God?
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
by Michall Jeffers on Playing Around
Freud’s Last Session is a dialogue in the truest sense. Two actors, alone on stage, duking it out verbally for an hour and a half
Jane Condon: The Real Housewife of Greenwich
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
by Jane Feyder on Playing Around
Why does Jane Condon do comedy? That’s the overarching theme of her new Off Broadway play, Janie Condon: Raw and Unchained at St. Luke’s Theatre
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