BWW Interviews: Cathy Rigby Talks About Her Favorite Role: Peter Pan
by Don Grigware - Jan 14, 2013
Actress Cathy Rigby was the highest-scoring American gymnast at the 1968 Olympics and became a favorite with American television audiences. She was U.S. National Gymnastic Champion in 1970 and 1972. Her greatest accomplishment was to become the first American woman to win a silver medal for the balance beam at the 1970 World Championships. In 1974, retired from gymnastics, she was offered the role of Peter Pan, which she has gloriously played for over 40 years, including Broadway with a Tony Award nomination as Best Actress in a Musical in 1990. She is about to open Peter Pan once more at the Pantages on January 15, having done it here in 2004. In our chat she talks about how she keeps the role fresh and why it has remained a favorite all these years.
FOUR, YOUNG AND WILD and More Set for New York LGBT Film Festival Line-Up, Now thru 7/31
by Movies News Desk - Jul 27, 2012
NewFest (www.newfest.org), New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival will soon roll out the rainbow carpet for its 24th season, from tonight, July 27th through Tuesday, July 31st. The stellar lineup includes fourteen narrative features, four documentaries and many anticipated short films. New this year, all screenings and panels will take place at Manhattan's film mecca, The Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, marking a continued relationship between the two pioneering film organizations.
Formerly Homeless Youth to Perform With Rita Harvey, Natalie Toro And More
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 25, 2011
Homeless youth striving to turn their lives around will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform with Broadway stars at Covenant House's A Night of Broadway Stars gala on Thursday, June 2nd on the stage of Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Review - Good People & That Championship Season
by Ben Peltz - Mar 27, 2011
If Bill Clinton really was, as Toni Morrison put it, America's first black president, then perhaps it's about time we crowned David Lindsay-Abaire as America's leading female playwright. Since first gaining major attention in 1999 with Fuddy Meers, and including major productions such as Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and the Pulitzer-winning Rabbit Hole, Lindsay-Abaire (whose surname is a hyphenated combination of his and his wife's last names) has been continually filling stages with unique and interesting women as his leading characters.
Block, Moreno et al. Honor Bush 6/3 at Lincoln Center
by BWW
News Desk - Jun 3, 2010
Homeless youth striving to turn their lives around will get a-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform with Broadway stars for former First Lady Laura Bush on Thursday, June 3rd on the stage of Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Block, Moreno et al. Honor Bush 6/3 at Lincoln Center
by Jessica Lewis - May 26, 2010
Homeless youth striving to turn their lives around will get a-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform with Broadway stars for former First Lady Laura Bush on Thursday, June 3rd on the stage of Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
CD/DVD 'BLITZ' REVIEWS PART 2: THE SINGERS...AND MORE
by Naomi Plume - Jun 17, 2008
It's finally here! The jam-packed end-of-season roundup of CDs from our very own Naomi Plume (so big, it had to be put into two parts)...The good, the bad, the ugly...or to quote from the ad for the upcoming musical A TALE OF A TWO CITIES... 'it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' We're so glad that we got to use that line first!
So enjoy this very special two-parter - happy reading, happy listening, happy buying (or not) and good luck to everyone at the TONY Awards on Sunday night from all of us at BroadwayWorld.com.
So enjoy this very special two-parter - happy reading, happy listening, happy buying (or not) and good luck to everyone at the TONY Awards on Sunday night from all of us at BroadwayWorld.com.
Martin Vidnovic: What Matters to Him
by Eugene Lovendusky - Jul 15, 2007
Martin Vidnovic, a Father in the current revival of 'The Fantasticks,' and father to Laura Benanti, discusses the theatre experiences that have collected into his new and original cabaret debut 'What Matters to Me' at the Metropolitan Room July 16-August 6.
An Interview with Liza Minnelli
by Randy Rice - Dec 1, 2006
Just off of a history-making concert run in Las Vegas, Liza Minnelli will play Mohegan Sun's Arena on December 10, 2006
An Interview with the Infamous Michael Riedel
by Robert Diamond - Nov 5, 2003
BroadwayWorld.com recently sat down with the New York Post's always controversial theater columnist - Michael Riedel. Read on to hear what he has to say about growing up *not* singing show tunes, Bernadette Peters, the current state of Broadway, and lots more...