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Patrick D. Healy has been a political reporter with the New York Times since 2005.

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Refugees From a Flop, Broadway Bound Again

The actress Jessica Hecht was full of mixed emotions as the curtain rose for one of the final Broadway performances of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs” this fall. When “Brighton Beach Memoirs” closed, two of its stars, Jessica Hecht and Santino ...

From PATRICK HEALY, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jessica Hecht,  Santino Fontana,  Neil Simon,  Arthur Miller,  Liev Schreiber

A Permanent Theater Festival on Puget Sound

SEATTLE— LIKE a reminder of theater’s past, the face of the playwright August Wilson stares out from a gleaming glass door set in a 12-foot steel portal at the top of August Wilson Way here, a sloping side street behind the Seattle Repertory Theater. ...

From PATRICK HEALY, International Herald Tribune,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: August Wilson,  Nirvana (musician),  Campbell Scott,  Bridget Fonda,  Daniel Sullivan

Shubert Reaches a Deal With Two Stage Producers

The powerful Shubert Organization, which owns the most theaters on Broadway, has struck a new business deal with two respected theater producers that may lead to greater competition among other producers for the best Broadway houses and spur more ...

From PATRICK HEALY, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Philip J Smith,  Robert Cole,  James Lapine,  Gerald Schoenfeld

Perfect Fit: Young Actor and His Role

Franco Wicks is the sort of ferociously funny, privately pained character that any rising Hollywood star would love to play and on Broadway no less, in this fall’s production of "Superior Donuts." Instead Franco is being played, to acclaim, by an actor ...

From PATRICK HEALY, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steppenwolf (musician),  Jon Michael Hill,  Michael McKean,  Tracy Letts,  Tina Landau

Jay-Z, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith Have Joined 'Fela!' as Producers

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Sahr Ngaujah as the title character in the Broadway musical “Fela!” Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have signed on as producers of the new Broadway musical “Fela!” and will attend the show’s opening night at ...

From PATRICK HEALY, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jay-Z,  Jada Pinkett Smith,  New York Times Company,  Will Smith,  Stephen Sondheim

A Night Out With | Michael Feinstein and Cheyenne Jackson: Breaks of the Game

“THEATER dressing rooms are my home away from home my second home, really,” Cheyenne Jackson said, surveying his 14-by-8-foot nook after a curtain call for the Broadway revival of “Finian’s Rainbow.” A round bed embroidered with the name Zora, for his ...

From PATRICK HEALY, International Herald Tribune,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Feinstein,  Cheyenne Jackson,  Loews,  Indigo Girls (musician)

When Courageous Artists Ripped Holes in the Iron Curtain

IN 1985 a dissident troupe of Polish actors called Theater of the Eighth Day defied the ruling Communist Party and its censors by creating a play about the bleakness of daily life under martial law, imposed from 1981 to 1983. With ragged costumes and ...

From PATRICK HEALY, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Abrons Arts Center,  Vaclav Havel,  Taylor Mac,  New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,  Vincent Astor

Writer Digs Up Gods From the Bayou

TARELL ALVIN McCRANEY enters. Miami, 1980s. He is a boy growing up in the Liberty City housing projects, among the nation’s worst. He stays with his father and grandparents on some nights. They feed him peanut butter and jelly, and he is content. They ...

From PATRICK HEALY, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: August Wilson,  Oskar Eustis

The Anguish of War for Today’s Soldiers, Explored by Sophocles

The ancient Greeks had a shorthand for the mental anguish of war, for post-traumatic stress disorder and even for outbursts of fratricidal bloodshed like last week’s shootings at Fort Hood. They would invoke the names of mythological military heroes ...

From PATRICK HEALY, The New York Times,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The Pentagon,  US Department of Defense,  Jeffrey Wright,  David Strathairn,  Gloria Reuben

Denzel Washington to Star in 'Fences' on Broadway

Ginia Bellafante on the season finale. Another new low in the overnight ratings for Jay Leno. The average American spent "four hours and 49 minutes a day on average in front of the TV" during the most recent TV season, The Nielsen Company said ...

From PATRICK HEALY, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Denzel Washington,  Jay Leno,  Twitter Inc,  Hulk Hogan,  Sam Tanenhaus

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