PAL JOEY’S MARTHA PLIMPTON FEATURED IN NEWSDAY

Newsday
January 4, 2009
 
Fast Chat: Martha Plimpton stars in ‘Pal Joey’
 
When last we saw Martha Plimpton on Broadway, she was romancing a Russian revolutionary in “The Coast of Utopia.” Now, she’s making her musical theater debut as sexy chorus girl Gladys Bumps in Rodgers & Hart’s “Pal Joey.” Gladys is a hard-bitten dame with an ax [...]

THE 39 STEPS DIALECT COACH STEPHEN GABIS INTERVIEWED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

NOTE: THE 39 STEPS moves to the Helen Hayes Theatre (240 West 44th Street) on Wednesday, January 21.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/theater/04piep.html?_r=1&em
 
January 4, 2009
The Man Who Knows Which R’s to Roll
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WITH talk of diphthongs and tongue positions, a dialogue session with Stephen Gabis comes across like speech therapy. That’s because Mr. Gabis is [...]

HEDDA GABLER’S CHRISTOPHER SHINN IN NEW YORK TIMES

NEW YORK TIMES, Arts & Leisure

January 4, 2009
 
Doesn’t Speak Norwegian. Does Speak Ibsen.
 
By KATE TAYLOR
 
CHRISTOPHER SHINN saw his first Ibsen play when he was 15 and was instantly hooked. “Sam Waterston and Cynthia Nixon did ‘The Master Builder’ in Hartford,” Mr. Shinn, now 33 and an accomplished playwright himself, recalled recently. He found [...]

ATLANTIC’S THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN REVIEWED IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Atlantic Theater Company and Druid’s production of Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN, directed by Tony Award® winner Garry Hynes is playing an extended engagement through Sunday, March 1, 2009.
 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123084996678547443.html
 
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – January 2, 2008
 
TWO LOOKS AT THE LUCK OF THE IRISH
 
By Terry Teachout
 
Why do the Irish write [...]