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MUSE Will Be Performed by The Acting Company Next Week The Acting Company today announces they will continue their Alumni Spotlight virtual programming series by producing a reading of Muse, a new play by Acting Company alum and Broadway mainstay Tom Alan Robbins. The play will feature Broadway veteran and Acting Company founding member Dakin Matthews (Waitress, Iceman Cometh, To Kill a Mockingbird) and Helen Cespedes (The Acting Companys Rose Tattoo and Red Bulls The School for Scandal). The ...

“Never stop dreaming,” said the king. “Follow the omens.” Caught as I’ve been in the throes of personal transformation—a life relaunch drastic enough that I call it “Chris v2.0”—it was hard not to look at Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist as an omen. That’s not surprising, I guess, since the book is about the power of omens and how following them can help a person achieve his or her destiny. “To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation,” the book says. The n...

Report: Oscar-Winning Hollywood Producer Scott Rudin Engaged in Years of Abusive Workplace Behavior 7 Apr 2021 As Hollywood continues its reckoning with bad managerial behavior, former assistants to Oscar-winning movie producer Scott Rudin are once again coming forward to spill the beans on his pattern of abusive workplace practices, including an incident in which he allegedly smashed a computer monitor on an assistant’s hand and another in which he allegedly threw a stapler at an assistant a...

Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vimeo, an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC), today announced the anticipated composition of its Board of Directors, as the company prepares to spin-off from IAC. The spin-off is expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2021, at which time Vimeo is expected to become an independent company listed on Nasdaq. The following are the anticipated 11 members of Vimeos post-spin Board of Directors: Joey Levi...

Writer Ingrid Randoja recalls chatting about a character who would become an indelible part of pop culture by Norman Wilner on March 12th, 2021 at 10:30 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2 Look at Jeff Bridges on that cover. Just look at him. He’s 48, he’s happy, and he has absolutely no idea he’s just played the role that will define him for the rest of his natural life. Before The Big Lebowski, Bridges was a well-regarded character actor; the kind you could cast as a slippery hero or a complicated ...

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Tobin is not an indigenous Irish name, but the family can be regarded as having become completely hibernicized. Its Irish form, Toibín, is a gaelicized version of the Norman ‘St. Aubyn.’ Another interpretation is that the name was first called de St. Aubyn and the original bearers were from Aubyn, in Brittany, France. According to the renowned Irish historian and genealogist, Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), the family came to Ireland in the wake of the Norman invasion and by 1200 were settl...

Negro Ensemble Company Founder Douglas Turner Ward Passes Away at 90 Ward was nominated for a Tony Award in 1974 for his performance in The River Niger.by BWW News Desk Ward is perhaps best known as the founder and artistic director of the Negro Ensemble Company. He made one of his first performances in The Iceman Cometh by Eugene ONeill in 1956, at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Three years later, he made his Broadway debut in a small role in A Raisin in the Sun, alongside Sidney Poitier a...

Douglas Turner Ward He won a Tony Award while also directing and starring in The River Niger in the 70s. Douglas Turner Ward, a Tony-winning playwright, director and actor who co-founded New Yorks trailblazing Negro Ensemble Company, has died. He was 90. Ward, inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan, his wife, Diana Ward, told Energized by the success of Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun and with help from a Ford Foundation grant, Ward, act...

Lynn Stalmaster, Hollywood’s ‘Master Caster,’ Dies at 93 With his eye for talent, he was a godsend to directors and could make careers. Ask John Travolta, Jeff Bridges, Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis and many more actors. Lynn Stalmaster collected his honorary Oscar from Jeff Bridges in 2016. He was the first and only casting director, to date, to receive the award.Credit...Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Associated Press Feb. 18, 2021 Lynn Stalmaster, an empathetic and tenacious casti...