Monday evening, May 21, The American Theatre Wing (Heather Hitchens, President and CEO) and The Village Voice (Peter Barbey, President and CEO) held the 63rd Annual Obie Awards at Terminal 5 in New York City. Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night, produced by Atlantic Theater Company,...
For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday
By Sandi Durell From behind a closed curtain, emerges the charismatic Kathleen Chalfant (who plays the role of Ann) relating her most important and formative life memory . . . fifty years ago playing Peter Pan in a children’s theater production and meeting Mary...
Vineyard Theatre Gala Honors...
By Sandi Durell The Edison Ballroom was filled to capacity on March 14th as two theater greats were honored for their untiring and unique contributions to the Vineyard Theatre as well as to the entire world of theater. Sam Rudy, everyone’s...
Vineyard Theatre Will Honor...
One of my personal favorite press agents, Sam Rudy (35 years a publicist and currently representing Hamilton), will be deservedly honored alongside Vineyard Theatre Board President, award winning actress Kathleen Chalfant. The...
Rose: The Kennedy Story as Told by...
Kathleen Chalfant gives life to the most famous matriarch of the 20th Century. By Joel Benjamin I couldn’t help thinking as I sat through Kathleen Chalfant’s brilliantly touching performance in Rose, that such an epic, century-spanning tale of a tragically...
Women Rule at LPTW Awards &...
On Monday March 16th, the Pershing Square Signature Center was alive with excitement and sounds of the League of Professional Theatre Women who gathered to celebrate their own in an Annual Award Celebration and BIG MINGLE! by: Sandi Durell Some of the theater’s most...
“A Walk in the Woods” more like a...
NY Theater Review by Sandi Durell Revivals written about serious world issues of the past are the most difficult plays to resurrect, even Lee Blessing’s 1988 revelations of the Cold War era, currently at the Clurman Theatre. When two diplomatic arms negotiators are...
Award winning Keen Company Season...
Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Keen Company today announced that their 2014 – ’15 season will begin with the first major New York revival of Lee Blessing’s A Walk In The Woods starring Kathleen Chalfant and Paul Niebanck, directed by Keen...
Somewhere Fun – really?
by: Sandi Durell Don’t let the title mislead you. There’s really very little funny in Jenny Schwartz’ surreal new play “Somewhere Fun” (God’s Ear, 2008, Vineyard). You think that because you get some chuckles in Act I when the marvelous Kate Mulgrew, who plays Rosemary Rappaport,...
