Paul Schrader News

Jack Garfein, theater-film director and acting teacher, has written a book, LIFE and ACTING: Techniques for the Actor (Northwestern University Press). Mr. Garfein is one of the last living links to the Golden Age of The Actors Studio. Required reading for anyone interested in theatre, the book is being launched with a signing at The Drama Book Shop this Friday, March 18th, 5:30-7:00 pm.

Jack Garfein, theater-film director and acting teacher, has written a book, LIFE and ACTING: Techniques for the Actor (Northwestern University Press). Mr. Garfein is one of the last living links to the Golden Age of The Actors Studio. Required reading for anyone interested in theatre, the book is being launched with a signing at The Drama Book Shop this Friday, March 18th, 5:30-7:00 pm.

Jack Garfein, theater-film director and acting teacher, has written a book, LIFE and ACTING: Techniques for the Actor (Northwestern University Press). Mr. Garfein is one of the last living links to the Golden Age of The Actors Studio. Required reading for anyone interested in theatre, the book is being launched with a signing at The Drama Book Shop this Friday, March 18th, 5:30-7:00 pm.

Purple Rep will present the world premiere of Larry Kunofsky's (What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends at Theater Row; A Guy Adrift in the Universe) play about marriage equality, THE UN-MARRYING PROJECT, April 9-30 at The Paradise Factory (64 East 4th Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery).

Years before Coppola's Godfather enthralled a nation and decades before "Sopranos" and "Boardwalk Empire" fed viewers' insatiable appetites for serial gangster melodrama, the yakuza (Japanese mafia) were mainstays of the Japanese film industry.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAMcinématek will present a four-day-long, 13-film tribute to Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon in February.

Arthur Penn, director of the 1967 landmark film, 'Bonnie and Clyde,' died yesterday September 28, a day after his 88th birthday. Those close to Penn say that he had been in bad health for the past year.

Last night, May 23, the Drama Desk Association hosted the 55th Annual Drama Desk Awards ceremony at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center. Former Drama Desk Award winner Patti LuPone hosted the ceremony, which honored the best of Broadway and off in the 2009-2010 season. BroadwayWorld.com provided live coverage on the site throughout the ceremony and was on hand at the event to capture the starry arrivals.

Natasha Richardson is set to be honored posthumously at the amfAR gala on February 10.

Natasha Richardson is set to be honored posthumously at the amfAR gala on February 10.

Multiple reports in the U.K. have revealed that friends of the late Natasha Richardson will be naming an English Rose in her honor.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced that acclaimed actor and playwright Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio, 'Law & Order: CI') has joined the cast of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming Broadway production of Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL directed by Daniel Sullivan.

Actor Liam Neeson spoke to Diane Sawyer on 'Good Morning America' about his relationship with the late Senator Ted Kennedy -- and how his family is dealing with the loss of his wife Natasha Richardson.

The E! Network pays homage to the life of beloved star of stage and film, Natasha Richardson and retraces her final days on Natasha Richardson: The E! True Hollywood Story. The program premieres onWednesday, July 15 at 10/9c, only on the E! Network.

The E! Network pays homage to the life of beloved star of stage and film, Natasha Richardson and retraces her final days on Natasha Richardson: The E! True Hollywood Story. The program premieres onWednesday, July 15 at 10/9c, only on the E! Network.

This Saturday, May 2nd PEN World Voices Festival A Tribute to Harold Pinter Join us for a day-long tribute to Harold Pinter. The event, curated by British actor-director Harry Burton, a close friend and longtime collaborator of Pinter-s, will feature film screenings; panel discussions; rare audio and video recordings of Pinter in his own plays; the U.S. premiere of Burton-s documentary portrait Working With Pinter; and a screening of Pinter-s Nobel acceptance speech, -Art, Truth and Politics.

Pinter Tribute at Graduate Center to Celebrate Nobel Laureate's Life and Achievements; Participants Include Salman Rushdie, Paul Schrader, John Guare, Emily Mann, Brian O'Byrne A day-long 'Tribute to Harold Pinter' on May 2 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (365 Fifth Ave., between 34th and 35th Streets) will celebrate the life and achievements of the Nobel Prize-winning dramatist, screenwriter, political activist, and actor

On Sunday March 22nd a sombre group of friends and family gathered in a small Hudson Valley town to bid a final farewell to Richardson. Liam Neeson was among the pallbearers who carried his wife's coffin into St Peter's Episcopal Church, near the home where the two married in 1994. He arrived with the couple's sons; his mother-in-law, actress Vanessa Redgrave, and his sister-in-law, actress Joely Richardson. Also among the mourners were Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman and Laura Linney.

Tony Award-winning stage actress and member of the famed Redgrave acting clan, Natasha Richardson sadly passed away Wednesday from injuries suffered in a ski accident. She was 45.

ony Award-winning stage actress and member of the famed Redgrave acting clan, Natasha Richardson sadly passed away Wednesday from injuries suffered in a ski accident. She was 45. To remember the acclaimed Richardson, BWW Photographer Walter McBride has assembled a collection of his favorite photos that he was honored to be able to take of the beloved stage and screen actress.