Friday, June 6, 2008

ATW NewsClips - Tri-State Print

New York Times

Resurrecting an Artist’s Greatest Creation: Herself
Mercedes Ruehl performs with unimpeachable conviction in Edward Albee’s touchingly modest tribute to the sculptor Louise Nevelson.

Seafaring Puppets Rock on a Trip to Party Island
Pay no attention to this review, because nothing in it will adequately convey the demented brilliance of “Jollyship the Whiz-Bang.”

Remembering Too Well Back When Rock Mattered
“Len, Asleep in Vinyl” is a slight but thoroughly entertaining new one-act by Carly Mensch.

Soft Shoe With Stamina and a Smile for the Ladies
Tony Danza performed a one-man vaudeville turn, in which the hyperkinetic star dashes from trick to trick hardly pausing for breath, at Feinstein’s on Wednesday.

Vijay Tendulkar, Indian Theater Innovator, Dies at 80

New York Daily News

In 'Albee's Occupant,' a sculptor's life takes shape
Imagine an episode of "Inside the Actors Studio" reworked as "Inside the Sculptor's Studio" and you've got a decent bead on "Edward Albee's Occupant."

amNY

'Saved' gets serious
Most stage musicals based on films replicate not just the plot, but the film's general attitude and atmosphere. A few, like "Xanadu," instead spoof the original film.

Francesca Zambello on 'Show Boat'

Newsday

Local premiere of 'Light in the Piazza'
When the Tony-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza" opens tomorrow at Smithtown Center for the Performing Lights, Phyllis March takes on the role originated by Victoria Clark on Broadway.

Review: 'Occupant'

Review: The Will Rogers Follies

'South Pacific' cast models retro-style swimsuits

New York Post

Riedel: Monster Salary Cuts
Like CEOs in the troubled airline industry, "Young Franken stein" creator Mel Brooks and producer Robert F. X. Sillerman have embarked on a cost-cutting rampage in a desperate effort to keep their Spruce Goose of a show aloft. Their most dramatic move: slashing the lead actors' salaries by 50 percent. Last...

Should vacate now
Artistic timidity isn't a trait that springs to mind when thinking of Edward Albee, but it's hard to avoid pinning the label on his...

New York Journal News

Broadway, my way
Theater critic Jacques le Sourd takes the measure of the Broadway season from top to bottom. And when he says bottom, he means unwatchable.

A portrait of an art-world legend shines
"Occupant," at the Signature Theatre Company, is Edward Albee's riveting, must-see portrait of sculptress Louise Nevelson, who died in 1988.

A summer with the bard
Terrence O'Brien and his troupe of professionals kick off the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's 22nd season Tuesday at the Boscobel Restoration in Garrison, with the first preview performance of "Cymbeline." It also marks the start of the summer theater season.

NY1

Review: "Occupant"

Hartford Courant

'Occupant' Portrays Louise Nevelson With Humor, Gusto

Star-Ledger

Albee crafts portrait of sculptor

Jerseyan movin' up in 'Movin' Out'

Suddenly, Seymour
The fourth time is really the charm.

Bergen Record

Theater review: 'Occupant'

'Seussical' comes to Bergen PAC

Movin' in for an NJPAC run

'Der Ring' recycled -- in Texas

Albany Times-Union

'The Caretaker' baffling, brilliant

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