My Dad used to say, "What's new?" And I'd usually say, "Oh, nothing." And then he'd say, "No news is good news!" which I never understood. So the good news is, despite my honest remarks to a producer about a...
The genesis of The Boy in the Basement is a funny one: Katharine wrote it initially many years prior to meeting any of the cast of What Women Talk About, who subsequently became the first women to take on the...
There's this quiet, permeating blue that seeps through my windows in the morning at dawn. It's not even a pure blue... it's this gentle combination of grey and azure. I haven't seen it in awhile, toying with my curtains... until...
Those of you that know me beyond this blog know that for years I've wanted a dog to call my own. One to play with. Run with. Tug with. You've seen my light up when I get to play with...
I've had 3 TV auditions in the past week - that's gotta be a record for me! I used to audition commercially ALL THE TIME (not so much in the last few months), but not that frequently theatrically. Last week...
The Ontological-Hysteric Incubator will present its fourth annual Summer Series, featuring original short-form works by two artists, Aug. 13-23 at St. Mark's Church, 131 E. 10th St., NYC. Tina Satter and Jake Hooker, both based in Brooklyn, have each created a repertoire of four 10-minute performances that are thematically connected but independent. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $12 for students; call (212) 352-3101 or go to www.ontological.com. Tickets at the door are cash-only.
Upright Cabaret, the sensational company run by young impresarios Chris Isaacson and Shane Scheel, has an exciting show slated August 15 and 16 at Mark???s Restaurant in West Hollywood. Lea Michele, a 2007 Drama Desk nominee for her role in Broadway???s Spring Awakening, makes her West Coast debut in this Upright showcase. Performing with her as a special guest both evenings is Tony winner John Lloyd Young (Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys). Michele will also be seen as Eponine in the Hollywood Bowl's August 8-9 concert staging of Les Miserables, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell. Among her other Broadway credits are...
Director Quentin Tarantino has finally begun to cast his long-awaited Inglorious Bastards, about a rogue band of Jewish-American soldiers who wreak havoc on the Nazis in WWII France. Variety reported this week that horror director Eli Roth (Hostel) is in talks to play Sgt. Donnie Donowitz, "a baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter." Although Roth seems like an odd choice, since he's known more for his roles behind the camera than in front of it, the "torture porn" director did play a small role in Tarantino's Death Proof; he also directed one of the fake movie trailers that played between Death Proof...
Simon Gray, the British playwright whose works included Quartermaine???s Terms, Melon, and Butley, has died at 71. Fuller accounts can be found at Playbill and the Guardian. --Andrew Salomon
If there is such a thing as a summer slowdown anymore, we'd like to think it's happening right about now, when Hollywood starts to dump its lowered-expectations product onto the market (all aboard the "Midnight Meat Train!" -- or not),...
Since stoner comedy is in vogue now -- really in -- there's probably no better time for the original wake-and-bakers Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong to pull themselves out of their semi-stupor, um, semi-retirement, and get back on the road....
He's slick and dashing, smart and creative. A Renaissance man, if you will. Or what those of us from the South would call a tall drink of water -- with brains! As one female character said with lusty admiration during...
Isn't it bad enough that our jaws are still rattling from the 5.4 magnitude earthquake that just hit SoCali a little while ago? Now we learn from some Grammy gurus that we might have another 7-8 months worth of "summer...
We don't blame our parents for using the television as an electronic babysitter during our formative years -- hey, it was the '70s, everybody was doing it. At least they had the good taste to tune it to seminal action...
