Carole Rothman, co-founder of the renowned New York theater company Second Stage responsible for such acclaimed productions as Dear Evan Hansen, Next To Normal, This Is Our Youth and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, is leaving the company she started in 1979.
“For 45 years, I have had the great honor of working with countless incredible artists and playwrights, many at the beginning of their careers, who are now among the brightest stars in the industry,” said Rothman in a statement. “The shows we have brought to life have been award-winners, conversation-starters, and groundbreakers. I’m forever grateful to all the people who have helped make Second Stage the creative springboard it is today. I’m so proud of what we have accomplished together.”
Rothman’s announcement did not state a specific reason for her departure or her immediate plans.
Since its founding by Rothman and Robyn Goodman (who left...
“For 45 years, I have had the great honor of working with countless incredible artists and playwrights, many at the beginning of their careers, who are now among the brightest stars in the industry,” said Rothman in a statement. “The shows we have brought to life have been award-winners, conversation-starters, and groundbreakers. I’m forever grateful to all the people who have helped make Second Stage the creative springboard it is today. I’m so proud of what we have accomplished together.”
Rothman’s announcement did not state a specific reason for her departure or her immediate plans.
Since its founding by Rothman and Robyn Goodman (who left...
- 9/20/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Annette Bening and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts will star in director Gregory Mosher’s Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s classic 1947 drama All My Sons. The Roundabout Theatre Company production, announced today, will begin previews April 4, 2019, with an official opening April 22.
The limited engagement at Broadway’s American Airlines Theatre runs through June 23. Additional cast and the design team will be announced soon.
Bening and Letts will play Kate and Joe Keller, the grieving parents of a missing World War II soldier. Casting of the couple’s surviving son, Chris, has not been announced.
The production will mark Bening’s return to the New York stage following her performance opposite John Lithgow in the Public Theater’s 2014 Shakespeare in the Park staging of King Lear. Bening made her Broadway debut in 1987 with a Tony-nominated performance in Tina Howe’s Coastal Disturbances. Onscreen, she recently starred in Film Stars Don...
The limited engagement at Broadway’s American Airlines Theatre runs through June 23. Additional cast and the design team will be announced soon.
Bening and Letts will play Kate and Joe Keller, the grieving parents of a missing World War II soldier. Casting of the couple’s surviving son, Chris, has not been announced.
The production will mark Bening’s return to the New York stage following her performance opposite John Lithgow in the Public Theater’s 2014 Shakespeare in the Park staging of King Lear. Bening made her Broadway debut in 1987 with a Tony-nominated performance in Tina Howe’s Coastal Disturbances. Onscreen, she recently starred in Film Stars Don...
- 9/20/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
As awards season takes over Hollywood, keep up with all the ins, outs, and big accolades with our bi-weekly Awards Roundup column.
– Annette Bening will be honored by Museum of the Moving Image at its 31st annual Salute on December 13 in New York. The news was announced by Michael Barker and Ivan L. Lustig, Co-Chairmen of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. The evening will feature cocktails, dinner, and an award presentation, featuring clips from Bening’s career introduced by her friends and colleagues.
Barker said in an official statement, “On screen, stage, and television, Annette Bening is one of America’s finest living actresses. From her Broadway debut in Tina Howe’s ‘Coastal Disturbances’ to her emotionally complex performance last year in ’20th Century Women’ and now as movie star Gloria Grahame in the upcoming ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,’ her stunning range as an actress has always been staggering and uncompromising.
– Annette Bening will be honored by Museum of the Moving Image at its 31st annual Salute on December 13 in New York. The news was announced by Michael Barker and Ivan L. Lustig, Co-Chairmen of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. The evening will feature cocktails, dinner, and an award presentation, featuring clips from Bening’s career introduced by her friends and colleagues.
Barker said in an official statement, “On screen, stage, and television, Annette Bening is one of America’s finest living actresses. From her Broadway debut in Tina Howe’s ‘Coastal Disturbances’ to her emotionally complex performance last year in ’20th Century Women’ and now as movie star Gloria Grahame in the upcoming ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,’ her stunning range as an actress has always been staggering and uncompromising.
- 11/10/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Theatre Hall of Fameannounced today its 2017 class of eight inductees, led byAudra McDonaldand including in alphabetical orderMatthew Broderick, Oskar Eustis, Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, Marin Mazzie, Daryl RothandErnie Schier.
- 9/11/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Given her distinguished career that includes such significant works at Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances and Pride's Crossing, a new play by Tina Howe is certainly a noteworthy event.
- 8/9/2017
- by Michael Dale
- BroadwayWorld.com
"I'm the end of the line," Arthur Miller once asserted. "Absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."
Many might argue otherwise. In fact, the best proof that theatre is still alive and kicking is Focus on Playwrights, the new coffee-table book, the cover of which showcases the life-crinkled face that once overlooked the birth of A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and The Crucible. Yes, photographer Susan Johann’s scintillating collection of over 90 playwrights, whom she’s shot over 20 years -- and the inclusion of sharply revealing interviews with some of the same, is the best retort to anyone ready to cremate modern drama.
Some of those captured for publications such as Vogue and the New Yorker are now deceased (e.g. August Wilson, Edward Albee, and Joe Chaikin) while others are very much functioning (e.g. David Henry Hwang,...
Many might argue otherwise. In fact, the best proof that theatre is still alive and kicking is Focus on Playwrights, the new coffee-table book, the cover of which showcases the life-crinkled face that once overlooked the birth of A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and The Crucible. Yes, photographer Susan Johann’s scintillating collection of over 90 playwrights, whom she’s shot over 20 years -- and the inclusion of sharply revealing interviews with some of the same, is the best retort to anyone ready to cremate modern drama.
Some of those captured for publications such as Vogue and the New Yorker are now deceased (e.g. August Wilson, Edward Albee, and Joe Chaikin) while others are very much functioning (e.g. David Henry Hwang,...
- 1/20/2017
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
For the 41st consecutive year, theater publishing company Samuel French will celebrate the art of the 10- to 30-minute play. Taking place Aug. 9–14 at Classic Stage Company’s East 13th Street Theater in New York City, the 41st annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival will feature staged readings of pieces under 30 minutes in length, from this year’s 30 semi-finalists. A panel of judges made up of professionals active in the theater community will select 10–12 finalists, six of which will be announced Aug. 14. Their plays will be published in print form in Samuel French’s “Off Off Broadway Festival Plays” series. Read: “How to Become a (Successful) Playwright” This year’s honorary festival playwright is two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Tina Howe (“Painting Churches”). For information on tickets to each round of play presentations, visit oobfestival.com. For a list of this year’s lucky 30 and their plays, see below.
- 8/3/2016
- backstage.com
Marian Seldes, the Tony Award-winning star of A Delicate Balance who was a teacher of Kevin Kline and Robin Williams, a muse to playwright Edward Albee and a Guinness Book of World Records holder for most consecutive performances, died Monday at age 86. She died peacefully at her home after an extended illness, her brother Timothy Seldes said. "It is with deep sadness that I share the news that my dear sister Marian Seldes has died," he said in a statement. "She was an extraordinary woman whose great love of the theater, teaching and acting was surpassed only by her deep love for her family.
- 10/7/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
When the title of a new theater work includes an accent aigu, and the advertising highlights the fact that the story has been adapted from Colette, perhaps it’s unnecessary to underline any further the Frenchiness of the proceedings. But Martha Clarke’s Chéri goes for the whole Camembert. Naturally, the Paris flat where the drama is set has French doors and casement windows; also a breakfast table dressed with croissants, coffee, strawberries, a pomegranate, and a neatly folded copy of Le Monde. We get it. And in case we somehow don’t, Tina Howe (who provided the brief, mortifying text) imprints every other sentence with a “quelle horreur” or a “ça suffit,” like Louis Vuitton logos on a valise.An empty valise at that. Or perhaps I mean emptied. Chéri (1920) and Fin de Chéri (1926), the two Colette novels on which this production is based, are not classics for nothing.
- 12/9/2013
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
The third annual Lilly Awards, which recognize the contributions of women working in the theater, were presented Monday, June 4, at Playwrights Horizons in New York. At a time when women are underrepresented on New York stages, the awards were created by the Committee for Recognizing Women in Theater as a way to draw attention to their achievements.Honorees included actors Cristin Milioti ("Once") and Nina Arianda ("Venus in Fur"), directors Diane Paulus ("The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess") and Sarah Benson ("Elective Affinities"), playwrights Katori Hall ("The Mountaintop") and Leslye Headland ("Assistance"), and set designer Heidi Ettinger. Milioti, Arianda, and Paulus are also nominated for 2012 Tony Awards.Lifetime achievement awards were given to multiple Tony Award nominee Estelle Parsons, who is currently performing in the musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" on Broadway, and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Tina Howe, whose play "Painting Churches" had an Off-Broadway revival this.
- 6/5/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
Julie Taymor’s back, she’s saved her emails, and she’s not afraid to use them. News broke this week that the fired Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark director filed new documents—which include private emails and recorded conversations—in her $1 million lawsuit against the show’s producers. Let’s just say the papers don’t portray Spider-Man’s composers Bono and the Edge as Broadway’s best collaborators.
Meanwhile, out in Los Angeles, half the town was holding a court of their own at the star-studded (think George Clooney and Brad Pitt) reading of Dustin Lance Black’s...
Meanwhile, out in Los Angeles, half the town was holding a court of their own at the star-studded (think George Clooney and Brad Pitt) reading of Dustin Lance Black’s...
- 3/10/2012
- by Aubry D'Arminio
- EW.com - PopWatch
Kathleen Chalfant says Tina Howe's play "Painting Churches" is a classic example of how the specific can become universal. The poignant and sometimes funny family drama, now in a revival from Off-Broadway's Keen Company, centers on a moneyed, aging Boston couple, the Churches (played by Chalfant and John Cunningham), and their ambivalent relationship with their adult daughter, Mags (Kate Turnbull). The Churches are in the process of packing up to move from their lifelong home, and Mags has arrived to paint their portrait. Chalfant's nuanced performance evokes a fun-loving wealthy eccentric who is also imperious and cruel, especially to her mentally declining husband. But in the end, she's a strong, wise, and loving figure. "This is a real love story," says Chalfant. "Fanny and Gardner love each other and are tied together."The award-winning actor says her own background is far removed from that of the Churches. She was born and.
- 2/23/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
Annette Bening takes on roles that are unlikely to endear her to the public. Maybe audiences think she does not need love
Probably the first time you noticed Annette Bening was her saucily provocative Myra Langtry in Stephen Frears's The Grifters. How could anyone miss her? There is a moment when, stark naked, she saunters across the screen with a knowing and comical look on her face. No, she's not a good girl in The Grifters, but she seems happy with that fate. It is a film noir in which humour turns poisonous, and Myra is going to end badly. But first she has fun.
This is hard to believe, but Bening was 32 at the time. She looks 22, even if the knowledge she lends to Myra comes from more complicated experiences. I might add her Mme de Merteuil in Milos Forman's Valmont the year before, but the chances...
Probably the first time you noticed Annette Bening was her saucily provocative Myra Langtry in Stephen Frears's The Grifters. How could anyone miss her? There is a moment when, stark naked, she saunters across the screen with a knowing and comical look on her face. No, she's not a good girl in The Grifters, but she seems happy with that fate. It is a film noir in which humour turns poisonous, and Myra is going to end badly. But first she has fun.
This is hard to believe, but Bening was 32 at the time. She looks 22, even if the knowledge she lends to Myra comes from more complicated experiences. I might add her Mme de Merteuil in Milos Forman's Valmont the year before, but the chances...
- 10/27/2010
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
It's A Night at the Museum meets House of Wax. It's a movable theatrical feast from San Francisco's edgiest and most creative ensemble, Boxcar Theatre (www.boxcartheatre.org). It's Tina Howe's acclaimed play Museum brought to life at venues around San Francisco from November 2 - 21 in a unique "fourth wall" breaking audience-and-cast interactive tableau. First stop: San Francisco's internationally acclaimed tourist must-see: The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf (www.waxmuseum.com).
- 11/2/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Boxcar Theatre presents Museum by Tina Howe and directed by Stephanie Renée Maysonave. The show will run from November 2 – November 22, with the opening night performance on November 2. Performances will be held at various locations, which are to be announced via the theatre’s website. The opening night performance is set to be held at the Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf located at 145 Jefferson Street, San Francisco.
- 11/2/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
It's A Night at the Museum meets House of Wax. It's a movable theatrical feast from San Francisco's edgiest and most creative ensemble, Boxcar Theatre (www.boxcartheatre.org). It's Tina Howe's acclaimed play Museum brought to life at venues around San Francisco from November 2 - 21 in a unique "fourth wall" breaking audience-and-cast interactive tableau. First stop: San Francisco's internationally acclaimed tourist must-see: The Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf (www.waxmuseum.com).
- 10/24/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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