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Poésy Power
Clémence Poésy is nervous. The 30-year-old actress, who hasn't done live theater in eight years, makes her Broadway debut this fall in Cyrano de Bergerac -- and the production isn't in her native tongue. "I'm…
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Action Jackson
Imagine you're on the factory floor of a paper mill somewhere on the rural border that divides northwestern Idaho from Washington state. Small town of 1,200 souls, an Aryan Nation compound in the near distance.…
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Goodnight Moon
In March, Paper's beloved theater critic and legendary performance artist Tom Murrin passed away after struggling with cancer. Throughout the years, Murrin profiled scores of downtown theater luminaries for Paper and Papermag.com, including writer and…
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Nina Arianda
The Golden Age of Broadway -- when there were true stars of the stage -- is gone. Now, it's buzzy film actors like Scarlett Johansson and Sienna Miller who tend to be cast in tried…
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Young Jean Lee
The South Korean born playwright-director Young Jean Lee has a unique approach to creating her experimental theater. While getting an MFA in Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College in 2002, she was assigned to…
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Tom Murrin: 1939-2012
It's with heavy hearts that we announce that legendary performance art pioneer and PAPER's long-time theater critic Tom Murrin has passed away after struggling with cancer. Tom, who performed around town as his alter-ego the…
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Solid Gold
On the eve of his Broadway debut, director Sam Gold is on high alert. "My iPhone has become a kind of bomb that goes off when I open it," explains the 33-year-old director of the…
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Marilyn Maye Isn't Through
Marilyn Maye came of age in the golden age of nightclubs and hearing her sing today still evokes a time when high society dressed to the nines to sip bubbly and sashay to big-name orchestras…
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Hall of Fame
In Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop," delivered the day before his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, the Civil Rights leader declared: "I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any…
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Role Model
You can't blame Lynn Nottage for needing a little comic relief. While writing about the heartbreaking lives of women in a Congolese brothel for her 2009 Pulitzer-winning play Ruined, she was simultaneously chipping away at…
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On Her Own
As the lone female star of The Book of Mormon, the new Broadway musical by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, actress Nikki James is hoping to infiltrate Hollywood's most notorious bromance. "I…
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Frances McDormand Is Good People
We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Frances McDormand on the phone from her dressing room at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. The Academy Award-winning actress is currently starring there in David Lindsay-Abaire's new…
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Mommy, Dearest
Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, passed away yesterday at age 91. More than any one, Ellen was the The Mother of Off-Off Broadway. Starting out in 1961, in a small basement…
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The Belle of La Bête
Pardon us while we gush a bit about Joanna Lumley. She's gorgeous: a leggy blondebombshell who got her start in the '60s as a model and Bond girl, and versatile: Lumley's racked up an impressively…
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Let's Spend the Night Together
Joan Collins may be best known for scheming and clawing her way through nine seasons of the '80s prime time soap Dynasty as the ruthlessly conniving Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan, there's a lot…
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From Justin to Kelly to Broadway
In 2002, a 23-year-old Justin Guarini was about to make his Broadway debut in the chorus of The Lion King. "I had done Lion King master classes for years and they were like, 'We want…
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Chairman of the Ward
If you're ever browsing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn's Word Bookstore and hear spooky chanting wafting up from the basement, there's no need to be frightened. It was probably just Wards of Merkin, comedian Bobby Tisdale's "super…
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Karma Chameleon
"Fourth time's a charm," actor Colman Domingo says of his fourth Broadway show, The Scottsboro Boys, which opened at the Lyceum Theatre last week. "When I was a kid, my aunt had me look into…
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The Luckiest Girl on Broadway
Kelli O'Hara is one of Broadway's top leading ladies, with three Tony nominations under her belt for A Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game, and Lincoln Center's long-running smash revival of South Pacific, which…
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I Know You Are, But What Am I?
This is the birth of Pee-wee Herman, in a nutshell: A young comic with L.A. bona fides flies to New York to audition for Saturday Night Live, set to join the show's first "new" cast…
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