by Sarah Feldberg | Dec 18, 2008 | Stage
Images associated with ballet—lithe, tutu-clad dancers and elaborate, evocative set design—are distinctly rooted in Romantic artistic traditions, and some of the world's most iconic ballets are derived from definitive Romantic texts (The Nutcracker was...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 18, 2008 | Stage
A fixture of the holiday entertainment season is those perennial reruns of It's a Wonderful Life. The beloved movie has now found its way onto the stage, in not one but two quite different dramatizations. One of them fills the stage with 53 performers, and one...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 8, 2009 | Stage
For stage actors, the standard demarcation between professional and amateur is membership in Actors' Equity Association. While you can be paid for acting without being in Equity—and in some cases vice versa—the union is the accepted mark of those who...
by Kendra Thurlow | Dec 25, 2008 | Stage
Comedienne Suzanne Westernhoefer's first television appearance was on Sally, a talk show hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, in 1991. She went on to become the first openly lesbian actress to appear on national TV with a performance on Late Night with David Letterman....
by Kendra Thurlow | Jan 8, 2009 | Stage
Although Kevin Bacon has been in an almost absurd number of movies—Mystic River, Hollow Man, The Woodsman, Wild Things, Sleepers, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, A Few Good Men, Flatliners and Tremors, to name a few—it's impossible to forget his...
