An Interview with Isabel Rose
by Nick Orlando - Apr 17, 2006
As an actress, Isabel Rose starred both off-Broadway and regionally in Beau Jest and played the role of Tess Kittridge in the national tour of Six Degrees of Separation with Marlo Thomas. In addition, she co-wrote and starred in the successful 2003 film 'Anything But Love,' opposite Andrew McCarthy and Eartha Kitt. The film won Audience Awards and Best Film awards at numerous festivals; Rose even picked up the Best Up and Coming Actress award. She performs frequently all over New York City, selling out Joe's Pub, Opia, Makor and Helen's. Rose is working on her debut CD, 'Boy Wanted,' which is due out in stores this October. Now, this multi-talented performer can add author to her many credits and talents. Her first novel, The J.A.P. Chronicles, was published in May, 2005; the paperback is due out on May 9th. Not only did she write this novel, but has turned it into a musical, composed the music and adapted the lyrics from the book. The result is J.A.P. Chronicles, the Musical.
Whatever Happened To Kurt Peterson?
by Joseph F. Panarello - May 15, 2005
After Tony in West Side Story, Dear World, and Follies, Kurt Peterson left the world of performing. Now he's back producing Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie....
Dallas Review: A Man of No Importance
by Joseph Melnicoff - Feb 20, 2005
A Man of No Importance: The Uptown Players Mount a Superior Production of a Well-Crafted Musical With Global Theme
Brian Crano's "12th Premise" Directed by BARE'S Kristin Hanggi Opens March 3 in LA
by BWW News Desk - Feb 18, 2005
The 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit play 12TH PREMISE, by Los Angeles playwright Brian Crano, will have its U.S. Premiere at The Lillian Theatre (1076 Lillian Way in Hollywood). Kristin Hanggi, who won both the LA Weekly and the LADCC Awards for Best Direction for the Ovation Award-winning musical bare, is set to stage this dramatic play about twenty-something college students emerging into the real world. Presented by Chaotic Entertainment, the limited engagement begins performances on March 3, 2005 with an official press opening on March 10, 2005.
Ten Questions with Kim Cea
by Robert Diamond - Mar 2, 2004
2003 MAC Award winner and Cabaret star talks with us about starring in Smokey Joe's Cafe, and her upcoming cabaret show at the Ars Nova. Listen to exclusive audio clips too...
100 Easy Ways to Lose a Star
by Michael Dale - Jan 1, 2004
An anthem for the first half of the 2003-04 New York theatre season.
(With deepest respect to Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Leonard Bernstein)
Traveling in Pursuit of Theater
by Adrienne Onofri - Jul 14, 2003
Since I live in New York City, I usually don't take a 'theater vacation'-you know, the eight-shows-a-week type of trip to New York or London. Even when I go to London, theater is just one of the activities on my itinerary. But the last three summers, I have found myself in a summer theater destination and have been appreciating more and more the joy of taking my No. 1 pastime on the road.