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When I interviewed the director Harold Prince in his offices in Rockefeller Center in 2018—offices that were wallpapered with reminders of his d

Were very cross, that, you know, that the national had chosen somebody who wasnt known and a newcomer to play ophelia. but i learned because it wasnt just six weeks, it was a year. so if you dont learn something in that time, youve had it, really. give up. as ophelia descends into madness, she sings to herself, and although youre not known primarily as a singer, it was about ten years after you made your debut in hamlet that you were cast as sally bowles in the very first london production of ca...

Glynis Johns – Send In The Clowns

Lighting designer who worked with Laurence Olivier on the construction and design of the National Theatre in London

Glynis Johns, the actress, who has died aged 100, rose to fame in the late 1940s and early 1950s in a series of film comedies; she became best-known for playing the suffragette mother Mrs Banks in the Walt Disney classic Mary Poppins, while on stage her distinctive, husky voice – described by one critic as sounding like “a princess who is turning into a frog” – was perfect for Send in the Clowns in A Little Night Music, the Broadway hit for which she won a Best Musica...

The Phantom of the Opera star is back on Broadway this season in the new Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman musical, Harmony .

Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died. She was 100. Mitch Clem, her manager, said she died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles of […]

Bradley Cooper directed and starred in the new film, and we rate how well he mimicked Bernstein's conducting style.

…and the reign of Andrew Lloyd Webber as Broadway’s most prolific composer comes to an end, too.

In 2000 Michael Blakemore became the first director ever to win two Tony Awards.