It’s a boy. Due to be born around August 30 and named Beckett or Jackson or Brady. His mother-to-be, Racquel Lehrman, has been “giving birth” for the past nine years. READ MORE
Linda Purl Gives California Its Own International Theatre Festival
by Cynthia Citron | July 12, 2010
Calabasas is one of those cities that might have been named by Jack Benny in his famous train call, “All aboard for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cu-ca-monga…!” READ MORE
Michael McGee Joins the Vampire Trend
in St. Nicholas
by Cynthia Citron | June 24, 2010
If you should Google the name Michael McGee, you might be hard pressed to find the one you’re looking for… READ MORE
Cate Caplin: Creative, Charismatic and Classy
by Cynthia Citron | June 4, 2010
When David Hyde Pierce climbed on stage to accept the 2007 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his starring role in Curtains, he thanked all the people who, he said, were “the reasons I’m here.” READ MORE
The Jerzy Boys: Davey, Jack and David
by Cynthia Citron | May 14, 2010
“If Jerzy Kosinski were here right now, he’d probably be hiding under the table pouring tea a few drops at a time into your shoe. He actually did that once to Warren Beatty.” Playwright Davey Holmes is sitting in Peet’s Coffee Shop talking about the protagonist of his play More Lies About Jerzy… READ MORE
Fee, Fie, Foe, Feiffer!
by Cynthia Citron | April 26, 2010
The iconic cartoonist Jules Feiffer ventured out here again recently to appear in conversation with Carl Reiner for Andrea Grossman’s Writers Bloc. READ MORE
A View From The Bridges
by Cynthia Citron | April 9, 2010
Before the lights come up onstage, an off-stage voice intones in the dark: “All the shadows are strange and solid. The quiet is trembling and alive. I respond to that quiet. My nerves begin to vibrate and throw threads of sympathy and expectation toward the great promising black riddle, the empty stage…” READ MORE
Playwright Shem Bitterman: “Theatre is about what’s surprising”
by Cynthia Citron | March 20, 2010
Award-winning playwright Shem Bitterman’s Influence deals with World Bank Director plotting to set up a branch of his bank in Iraq, which would automatically give legitimacy to that country’s disorganized government and imply that everything there was under control. READ MORE
Dialogue with Quintessential Actress Francesca Fanti
by Cynthia Citron | March 12, 2010
Francesca Fanti is in the middle of “the best rehearsals of my life” for the play Dialogue Between a Prostitute and Her Client, directed by Mark Kemble at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena. READ MORE
Christine Estabrook: No Ripples in Her Career
by Cynthia Citron | March 1, 2010
Christine Estabrook is such a complete and consummate actress that she played all five adult women in Spring Awakening on Broadway. “Without a single change of costume!” she adds. “That certainly didn’t make it any easier.” READ MORE
