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...puritanical priest of Brand. "You have to rehearse and play Ibsen at a high temperature or the cake won't rise," says its director, Adrian Noble. "That's an extraordinary strain and amazing challenge for an actor like Ralph." And the ethereal Richardson, Tony Award-winner and daughter of Vanessa Redgrave, essays another marathon role in The Lady from the Sea at the Almeida. (The fourth Ibsen play, Ingmar Bergman's production of Ghosts, had a brief London run at the Barbican in May.) None of these plays is easy for performer or audience, especially the rarely done Brand...
...wasn't morning sickness that made Vanessa Valdez's first trimester of pregnancy so hard--it was homesickness. So when the check-cashing company she worked for in Tucson, Ariz., offered her a transfer to her hometown of Douglas, she jumped at the chance. Four months pregnant at the time, Valdez, 24, was delighted to come home to her boyfriend, her parents and the 2-year-old son she left in their care when her job took her out of town. But now, as she prepares to give birth to a baby girl, she is dealing with a major drawback...
DIED. RACHEL KEMPSON, 92, matriarch of the Redgrave acting family; at her home in Millbrook, N.Y. Best known in the U.S. as the wife of actor Michael Redgrave and mother of actors Vanessa, Corin and Lynn Redgrave, she stood on her own in Britain, where she was much admired for her Shakespearean roles (below, as Ariel in The Tempest...
...chambermaid in Florence...") with a healthy sprinkling of famous names. Her father Nigel was a journalist before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher. After graduating from Oxford, Nigella followed her father into journalism at the Sunday Times of London. Soon she veered into her mother's territory (Vanessa Lawson was an heiress to a chain of tea shops) and started writing about food...
...last season and 11 (out of 27 shows) in 2000-01. Some of these retreads are hard to begrudge, like the Our Town that brought Paul Newman back to Broadway for the first time since 1964 and the upcoming production of Long Day's Journey Into Night, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy and Philip Seymour Hoffman, which is the hottest ticket of the spring. Moreover, in an era when mounting a new musical is a huge gamble and no one seems to bring straight plays to Broadway anymore unless they have had a tryout in London, revivals at least keep...