VIDEO: Unnecessary Censorship on KIMMEL
by Caryn Robbins
- Mar 8, 2016
On KIMMEL, they bleeped and blurred all the week's big TV moments whether they need it or not. This week they feature Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and more. #UnnecessaryCensorship
Everything Is Copy Nora Ephron: Scripted & Unscripted debuts March 21
by Caryn Robbins
- Mar 7, 2016
“When you slip on the banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on the banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero, rather than the victim of the joke.” This was Nora Ephron's philosophy, inherited from her own mother. She believed that being a writer meant turning the bad things that happen to you into comedy. Written and directed by her son, Jacob Bernstein, the candid portrait EVERYTHING IS COPY Nora Ephron: Scripted & Unscripted debuts MONDAY, MARCH 21 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO.
VIDEO: Will Forte Gets an Ice Down on LATE LATE SHOW
by Caryn Robbins
- Mar 7, 2016
On the LATE LATE SHOW, James asks 'The Last Man on Earth' star Will Forte about his own chances at survival faced with his character's situation and Will shares why poison oak would do him in.
Audra McDonald to be Honored at New Dramatists' 2016 Spring Luncheon
by Tyler Peterson
- Mar 4, 2016
NEW DRAMATISTS,Tony® Honor recipient and the nation's premier playwright development laboratory, will honor six-time Tony Award winning actress, Audra McDonald with their 2016 Distinguished Achievement Award at its 67th Annual Spring Luncheon tribute. The event will be held Thursday, May 12 at the New York Marriott Marquis.
KC Rep Announces Cast of THE FANTASTICKS
by Tyler Peterson
- Mar 3, 2016
Kansas City Repertory Theatre will continue its 2015-16 season with The Fantasticks, directed by Kansas City Repertory Theatre's Producing Director Jerry Genochio.
BWW Blog: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF's Ben Rappaport- My Road To Anatevka
by Guest Blogger: Ben Rappaport
- Mar 2, 2016
Let's take a trip back in time, shall we? The year was 1993 (or '94, or '95....'96?), I was 7 (or 8, or 9...10?) years old, and my parents took my sister and me to the Three Little Bakers dinner theater in Wilmington, Delaware, where 'Fiddler On The Roof' was playing. Unfortunately, I don't remember much about this experience other than that it was the first time I ever had a Shirley Temple, the waitress made me cry, and the line for the prime rib buffet was very long. This was, however, the first time those famous first strains of Jerry Bock's violin solo entered the back of my brain and psyche, and never left. Over the next several years, Fiddler lightly weaved its way in and out of my life: the occasional off key rendition of 'Sunrise, Sunset' at Jewish Community North, catching the film on AMC, and that community theatre production that my synagogue's men's club brought their families to (ironically enough, the girl playing Hodel ended up being my prom date). While at Juilliard, my best friend, Scott and I saw the 2004 revival together TWICE. Once with Alfred Molina, and another time with Harvey Fierstein and Rosie O'Donnell. For over a decade, it's been part of our rotation of inside jokes to cast Tevye and Golde with obscure and asinine choices of actors, then perform 'Do You Love Me', impersonating said actors (Keanu Reaves as Tevye and Paula Deen as Golde, anyone?). As an American suburban Jewish kid growing up in the late '90s/early 00's, Fiddler was just part of the narrative -- Chinese Food on Christmas.
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