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...four months later, liver cancer was diagnosed, and he died last week at age 60, ensuring that his life would forever be defined by the great work that he spent more than two decades creating. Each of his 10 plays, from Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (which opened on Broadway in 1984) to his latest, Radio Golf, was set in a different decade, chronicling the struggle of African Americans to come to terms with the legacy of slavery and the injustices of today. His work stood apart from, and above, nearly everything else in contemporary American theater. While others wrote...
After 30 years as a stand-up comic, movie actor and eight-time Academy Awards host, Billy Crystal cracked Broadway last season, starring in 700 Sundays, a one-man show about his New York childhood and the death of his father. Now he has launched a five-city tour of the show, and a book version ("the director's cut") is due Oct. 31. He talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin...
...Sunday night backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway. Nathan Lane is sprawled on a couch in his tiny sitting room. His face is flushed. He looks exhausted. And no wonder: two days from now, he and Matthew Broderick are set to start previews of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, the play's first revival in 40 years. Broderick and Lane, whose singularly fizzy chemistry made the musical The Producers a colossal hit in 2001, have been rehearsing nonstop for the past three weeks. Lane will play the slovenly Oscar Madison, Broderick the famously fastidious Felix Unger...
That unique rapport has made them the most bankable stars on Broadway. Separately, before The Producers, Broderick and Lane were both solid B-list performers: likable, reliable but limited. What they became together was something far more than the sum of their parts. With The Odd Couple, and the movie version of The Producers, which opens Dec. 16, they're going to see how far chemistry can take them...
With the exception of the offhand Off-Broadway staging, the transcendentally bizarre and transsexually titillating “Rocky Horror Show” has been largely experienced by audiences in its big-screen “Picture” form. For decades, fans of the cult classic have taken pleasure in dressing up as characters and yelling obscenities at midnight screenings. But this fall, HRDC will be offering a live alternative for those who tend to linger around Loews Harvard Square late on a Saturday night in Frank-N-Furter drag. Director John R. Drake ’06 says...