Birth Place: Los Angeles, CA, USA
John Rubinstein is currently starring in Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground. He originated the title role in the Broadway musical Pippin, directed by Bob Fosse, and won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his performance in Children of a Lesser God. Other Broadway appearances include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ragtime, Hurlyburly, M. Butterfly, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Drama Desk nomination), Getting Away with Murder, Fools, Love Letters, and the 2013 Pippin revival. He appeared off-Broadway in Counsellor-at-Law (2005 Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics' Circle and Drama League nominations), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Urban Blight, Cabaret Verboten, and Morning's at Seven. Regionally: Wicked in LA, and the international tour of the Pippin revival. He starred in the TV series, “Family” (Emmy nomination), and “Crazy Like A Fox”, and over 300 episodes. Films include “Being the Ricardos”, “Hello, I Must Be Going”, “21 Grams”, “Red Dragon”, “The Boys from Brazil”, “Someone to Watch Over Me”, “Daniel, Zachariah,” and “Getting Straight”. He directed the world premiere of A. R. Gurney's The Old Boy, and Counsellor-at-Law, Company, Brigadoon, Macbeth, The Three Sisters, Phantasie, Nightingale, The Rivals, A Little Night Music, Guys and Dolls, Into The Woods, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and The Rover. He composes film and TV music (“Jeremiah Johnson”, “The Candidate”, “The Dollmaker”, "China Beach", among others), hosted two classical music radio programs, played keyboards in a rock band, and has recorded over 200 audiobooks, most numerously Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series of Los Angeles crime novels.
John Rubinstein, Counsellor-at-Law
John Rubinstein, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
John Rubinstein, Children of a Lesser God
John Rubinstein, Children of a Lesser God
John Rubinstein, Pippin
John Rubinstein has appeared on Broadway in 11 shows.
John Rubinstein has not appeared in the West End.
John Rubinstein has been nominated for several awards throughout his career, including Outstanding Actor in a Play by the Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Counsellor-at-Law," by the Drama Desk Awards for "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" and "Children of a Lesser God," and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play at the Tony Awards for "Children of a Lesser God." He also received a Performance award from the Theatre World Awards for his role in "Pippin."
John Rubinstein has won the Outstanding Actor in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Children of a Lesser God, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Children of a Lesser God, and Performance (Theatre World Awards) for Pippin.
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