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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, TIM RICE, ‘THE WIZARD OF OZ’

(Cole Moreton’s interview appeared in Mailonline, 7/17.)

This can't be the right place, I think as I push the doorbell. I'm looking for Andrew Lloyd Webber, First Lord of the Theatre and composer of lush, romantic melodies, whose home is surely a mansion swathed in velvet and adorned with golden cherubs  -  not this dusty little town house round the back of Victoria Station. Can he really live here?

'Oh yes,' says a woman's voice on the intercom. 'Come in.'

The door clicks open... and it's astonishing, like entering another dimension. A huge, dark room, and in the gloom stand three beautiful human-sized angels, guarding the Holy Grail.

via www.dailymail.co.uk

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INDHU RUBASINGHAM: “WE GOT SCARED OF THE WORD FEMINISM”

 

 

(Johanna Thomas-Corr’s interview with the director appeared in the London Evening Standard on 6/9.)

As the new Government was called to Downing Street last month and David Cameron's Cabinet filled up with white public-school boys, it was hard to suppress a feeling of dismay. Why does Britain have a smaller percentage of female ministers than almost every other European country? Is Theresa May all we have to show for a century of women's suffrage?

via www.thisislondon.co.uk

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MARK RYLANCE INTERVIEW

 

 

(Mark Lawson’s article appeared in the Guardian, 6/14.)

Mark Rylance: the great chameleon His explosive turn in Jerusalem won every award going. Now Mark Rylance is playing a 17th-century fool. He tells Mark Lawson about the highs and lows of a life in theatre

via www.guardian.co.uk

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JULIET RYLANCE: A NEW STAR RISING

 

(Lesley White’s article appeared June 13 in the Times of London.)

Whatever Juliet Rylance is having, you’ll be wanting some of it too. She is as radiant playing a lovestruck Miranda as she is over a strong coffee and a cigarette on a sunny square in Madrid. The night before, in the faded baroque of the Español theatre, she starred in Sam Mendes’s minimal musical production of The Tempest, part of the Bridge Project, a company of American and English actors touring the classics from Brooklyn to Paris via Singapore, and landing at the Old Vic this month. Rylance’s happiness, however, is possibly more personal than professional. In 2008, at New York’s City Hall, she married the American actor Christian Camargo, who plays a darkly handsome Orlando to her Rosalind in As You Like It, the other half of Mendes’s double bill. When they get to her speech warning of how appalling a wife she might make — “I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain” — he looks at her, nods and mouths a simple “Yep...”.

via entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

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JOHN C. REILLY TALKS ABOUT STANLEY KOWALSKI

 

(From Jeff Wells’s Hollywood Elsewhere—thanks to Pam Green for recommending it.)

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GOTTA LOVE ‘EM: THE AMORALISTS

(Helen Shaw’s article appeared in Timeout New York, June 2-9.)

There’s a new reason to brave the fuzzy hats and joss sticks crowding the sidewalks of St. Marks Place: The Amoralists, the suddenly omnipresent and omnipraised troupe, has risen again at Theatre 80 on that storied street. With two solid hits under their belt—2009’s The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side and this season’s Happy in the Poorhouse—the company now presents its barely seen 2008 Amerissiah (a mash-up of the words America and messiah) as part of a staggeringly busy year. Not only are there already plans to revive the two prior smashes for an encore season at P.S. 122 and to premiere Adam Rapp’s Ghost in the Cottonwoods this fall, but, tossing aside concerns for health and sanity, Amerissiah opens five weeks after Poorhouse closed.

via newyork.timeout.com

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20 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT SHAKESPEARE

(Robert Gore-Langton’s article appeared in the Times of London May 31.)

We know the plays, but how much do we really know the man? As Simon Callow sets off on tour in a new one-man show, Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford, we felt it was time to put the Shakespeare industry to the test. After all, the Bard is probably the cause of more tree-felling than all other dead authors put together. Every minuscule aspect of his output is pored over by researchers and academics, the answers buried in impossibly dense books that suck the blood out of the playwright.

via entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

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ROBERT MORSE: HOW TO SUCCEED

 

(Susan King’s article appeared in the LA Times, 5/26.)

Rarely does one describe a 79-year-old man as "boyish" (and actually mean it), but the phrase fits Robert Morse like a comfortable pair of shoes. His hair may be gray, but the impish personality, young countenance and modified Beatles haircut still remain from when he catapulted to Broadway stardom and his first Tony Award nearly 50 years ago in the Frank Loesser-Abe Burrows musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."

via www.latimes.com

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LYNN NOTTAGE: ‘GUARDIAN’ INTERVIEW

(Nosheen Iqbal’s article appeared 4/20.)

Lynn Nottage: a bar, a brothel and Brecht

Lynn Nottage wanted to expose the plight of women in war-torn Congo. Could Mother Courage help? The Brooklyn writer talks to Nosheen Iqbal

Lynn Nottage is sitting in a tatty office at the Almeida theatre in London. The walls are lined with framed certificates, mementos of the theatre's triumphs at the Olivier and Critics Circle awards. It's a fitting spot to meet Nottage: the 45-year-old Brooklyn playwright is something of an award magnet herself.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/apr/20/lynn-nottage-ruined

(Lynn Nottage’s work is included in One on One:  The Best Women’s Monologues for the 21^st Century; One on One:  The Best Men’s Monologues for the 21^st Century; and Duo!:  The Best Scenes for Two for the 21^st Century—all from Applause  Cinema and Theatre Books.)

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INGMAR BERGMAN ON THE SCRIPT--AND SILENCE

 

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