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William A. Strauss ’69 is co-founder and director of the Capitol Steps, playwright of three musicals and co-author of nine books, including Generations and Millennials Rising...
...breakthrough role in the stage musical and 1968 film Funny Girl; in Los Angeles. Stark, who started out in Hollywood writing captions for publicity photos at Warner Bros., made more than 125 films, including Night of the Iguana, The Way We Were, and 11 movies in close collaboration with playwright Neil Simon, among them The Sunshine Boys. Stark considered several actresses such as Mary Martin and Eydie Gorme before choosing the then unknown Streisand to play Funny Girl's Fanny Brice. Her performance in the film won an Oscar. "Sure enough," he told the Los Angeles Times...
Because of my fascination with stories, I decided to become a playwright. But I was so frustrated by my early efforts, I cried myself to sleep many nights while attending military school at age 16. So instead I decided to direct for stage and enrolled as a theater major at Hofstra University on Long Island. And then one afternoon in 1956, while a freshman, all my interests came together as I watched Sergei Eisenstein's 1927 silent masterpiece October: Ten Days That Shook the World, about the Russian revolution. I knew instantly I could combine storytelling with the innovation...
Long before anyone had ever heard of Miss Manners, Titus Maccius Plautus discerned the truth about hospitality. "No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days," wrote ancient Rome's great playwright. With the holiday-travel season upon us, there are ample opportunities to annoy friends and family with burdensome visits. For that reason, TIME checked in with two experts, Letitia Baldrige and Peter Post--both out with new etiquette books--for advice on how to be a well-mannered houseguest...
Bringing his work to TV was no comedown for the playwright, who is unapologetically "addicted to television," including HBO'S The Wire, The Honeymooners and "Law & Order: Sexual Filth" (his nickname for Special Victims Unit). In a sense, Angels was TV waiting to be made, an HBO drama before HBO dramas as we know them existed. Director Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Wit) notes that the plays often cut between split-stage scenes, a "very filmic" technique. "So much of it concerned dreams and magic," Nichols adds, "and those two things are very much in the realm of movies...