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...when his first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane - about the love-hate relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother - won the then 26-year-old a handful of awards and the first of many Tony nominations. Since then, he has been selling out theaters from Broadway to the West End with seven plays, all written in a 10-month spurt during a bout of unemployment...
...appreciation for the traditional female attributes in the office is just about the only thing that DiSesa's book has in common with The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career into Gear, by Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio (Broadway). With its comparatively prim language and earnest encouragements, The Girl's Guide is like chick-lit for M.B.A.s: "You've figured out where you are. And realized that you're not satisfied. Of course, you're not. Ambitious girls never are." This book is pitched to a younger audience than DiSesa's, which speaks to the more seasoned and frustrated...
...February, Heathrow commissioned Broadway, a local homeless-outreach organization, to visit the airport once a week in order to survey its homeless population and try to coax them into alternative accommodations. In the first four weeks alone, Broadway conducted a hundred interviews with homeless people at the airport, and although the group spoke with some more than once, the number was far higher than expected...
...night in March, I joined Jeff Motunde, a Nigerian-born Broadway outreach worker, and police officers for a survey of Heathrow's homeless. Those contacted included a man sleeping under his coat, another conspicuously hiding behind an open newspaper, and a woman clutching a duty-free bag who insisted she was waiting for a flight, only to whisper when police were out of earshot, "I can't afford electricity. It's warm here. Please let me stay...
...Macbeth on early live TV and Sir Thomas More in a small-screen revival of A Man for All Seasons. ( He wanted to play the role in the 1966 movie version, but lost out to Paul Scofield, who died last month.) Having cut his great white teeth on Broadway, Heston was the rare mid-century movie star who returned to the stage. Laurence Olivier directed him in The Tumbler, the year after Ben-Hur. He did Long Day's Journey Into Night with Deborah Kerr and Macbeth with Vanessa Redgrave.In 1999 he and his wife, Lydia Clarke, read the Love...