Patricia Elliott, the Tony winner who became a fixture on ABC's One Life to Live, died of cancer Sunday in Manhattan. Playbill confirmed the 77-year-old actress's death with her niece. Elliott, who found success both on stage and onscreen, began her career in the ’60s with plays and small TV parts. Her Broadway musical debut came with 1973's A Little Night Music, for which she played Countess Charlotte Malcolm and nabbed a Tony as best featured actress. Other theater credits included roles on The Elephant Man (opposite David Bowie), Tartuffe, The Shadow Box (nominated for a best featured actress Tony), and King Lear. (More on her stage work here and here.) Onscreen she would have been most recognizable as One Life to Live's Renee Divine Buchanan, a character she played for 23 years. She also appeared as a guest on a slew of other TV shows, such as Kojak and...
- 12/22/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
Victor Garber says the biggest challenge he's facing at the moment is not quite feeling up to snuff. "I have a touch of bronchitis to remind me of my mortality," he quips, noting it doesn't help a performance either. That aside, the most daunting task in doing a Noël Coward play is "just getting the words out and making them sound like you're actually saying them," asserts Garber, who is stretched out in his dressing-room chaise longue before a performance of the playwright's "Present Laughter." "Doing Coward is in many ways akin to doing Shakespeare," says the actor. "I'm not that smart. Few are. But you have to make it sound like you are that smart." It has also been more than a decade since Garber last appeared on Broadway, when he starred with Alan Alda and Alfred Molina in Yasmina Reza's "Art."But have no doubt: The Tony-...
- 2/17/2010
- backstage.com
DVD Links: DVD News | Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Before we get into the new releases for the week there is a Blu-ray deal some of you may be interested in as Paramount is offering double packs at a discounted price of $24.99 with the following titles up for grabs: Clear and Present Danger and The Hunt for Red October Sweeney Todd and Sleepy Hollow Top Gun and Days of Thunder Mission: Impossible and Mission: Impossible 2 Sahara and Failure to Launch Hustle and Flow and Black Snake Moan You can browse the options at Amazon by clicking here. And now for this week's releases and latest release date announcements... Twilight (2-Disc Special Edition) Today I was asked at the last minute if I wanted to review this DVD. While reviewing the DVD would certainly account for a few additional page views I just couldn't do it since I didn't...
- 3/17/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Pearl Theatre Company is pleased to present the fourth play of its 25 th Anniversary Season; Moli?re's riotous comedy Tartuffe. The production will open March 30, 2009. This wickedly gleeful comedy offers the story of the hypocritical Tartuffe and his designs on the affluent (and painfully gullible) Orgon. Orgon's family must find a way to break Tartuffe's hold on them before they lose everything - and it won't be easy. In The Pearl Theatre Company's production of Tartuffe, Moli?re's madcap dance of cunning plans and comic irrationality, the question is: what will win the day - blind faith or common sense? "This translation is Richard Wilbur's masterpeice", says Tartuffe Director, Gus Kaikkonen. In this revival, Kaikkonen plans to explore what happens when an entire family combats each other, all in the name of love.
- 2/18/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.