06.Jan.2011 From the Danner Lounge with Rebecca Buller
Rebecca Buller, the actor portraying Anne Frank in IRT’s The Diary of Anne Frank, sat down with us to talk about life as an actor and what it’s like to play such an iconic young woman.
20.Jan.2010 “Two households, both alike in dignity …”
Romeo and Juliet is perhaps Shakespeare’s most familiar play. Its story of forbidden love translates into all cultures and has served as inspiration for artworks in all forms: music, opera, ballet, film, literature, and painting. Even people who have never read or seen the play know lines from it, so pervasive is its influence in [...]
14.Dec.2009 Now playing at IRT: Renoir
IRT’s production of A.R. Gurney’s LOVE LETTERS has begun previews (get your tickets here!). Sharing the stage with Priscilla Lindsay and Patrick Clear is a work by Pierre Auguste Renoir called Sketch after Danse à Bougival. The work, a “sketch” by the artist from this larger work, was chosen by director Janet Allen and scenic [...]
02.Oct.2009 Fiction Meets Fact: Characters in The Heavens Are Hung in Black
The world of The Heavens Are Hung in Black includes both figures who were part of Lincoln’s life in 1862 and others long dead or even fictional who appear in Lincoln’s dreams. John Hay (1838-1905) was one of two private secretaries working for the president, and it was said that Lincoln treated him as one [...]