Theater Articles

Benedict Nightingale’s "Paul Scofield: an overlooked acting great" in The [London] Times: "Why didn’t most theatregoers think of Paul Scofield in the way they thought of Olivier, Gielgud and Richardson? After all, he had pretty well all the qualities, from Olivier’s danger through Gielgud’s grace to Richardson’s soul, that we admired in the 20th century’s most renowned triumvirate. "Indeed, Richard Eyre, who directed him as [...]

The New York Post is one of the vilest rags around, but Michael Riedel’s March 12 column on Edward Albee, who’s turning 80 today, is well worth checking out. A couple of Albee quotes, remembering his lover of 35 years, artist Jonathan Thomas, who died of cancer in 2005. "I learned something important about dying, about a slow death, as Jonathan’s was. What I learned [...]

Donna Freydkin’s "Rising star Amy Adams’ career seems enchanted" in USA Today: "Amy Adams [right, with Jack Davenport in The Wedding Date (2005)] is having one of those enchanted Manhattan moments. "’Look, it’s snowing!’ she cries, looking out of the window of an Upper West Side cafe to the snowflakes gently settling on the cabs and buildings outside. ‘It’s sticking!’ "Adams has an ability to [...]

Actor-singer Robert Goulet died Tuesday (Oct. 30) morning while waiting for a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Goulet had been suffering from interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, reportedly a rare lung disease. He was 73. Born on Nov. 26, 1933, in Lawrence, Mass., Goulet spent much of his youth in Canada. He became a stage star in 1960, after playing Sir Lancelot in [...]