Ed Begley, Jr. joins Larry Bryggman and other original Off-Broadway cast members for the upcoming Mark Taper Forum presentation of the Atlantic Theater Company’s production of David Mamet’s Romance.
Neil Pepe directs the California run, which begins previews Sept. 29 to kick off the 39th Taper season. Romance officially opens Oct. 9 for a run through Nov. 13. The work debuted at the Atlantic Theater Company earlier this year.
Original Off-Broadway cast members Larry Bryggman (Twelve Angry Men, Proof), Jim Frangione, Steven Goldstein and Steven Hawley are joined in Los Angeles by Noah Bean, Ed Begley, Jr. and Todd Weeks.
In Romance, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross) pens a “farce” set in a New York courtroom “where a low profile trial is taking place [wherein] the defendant and his attorney test the boundaries of truth and ethics, the prosecutor strains to keep his household together and the bailiff struggles to keep the judge from an accidental drug overdose,” according to production notes.
Begley, Jr. is best known for his performance as an actor in the television series “St. Elsewhere.” His film credits include “This Is Spinal Tap,” “The Accidental Tourist” and “Transylvania 6-5000.” The actor — who appeared opposite Jeff Goldbum in the Pittsburgh CLO’s The Music Man last season — has also made a number of appearances as recurring characters on TV in “7th Heaven,” “Providence” and “Six Feet Under.”
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Larry Bryggman and other original Off-Broadway cast members along with Ed Begley, Jr. star in the Atlantic Theater Company's production of David Mamet's Romance at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, starting Sept. 29
Neil Pepe directs the California run, which kicks off the 39th Taper season. Romance officially opens Oct. 9 for a run through Nov. 13. The work debuted at the Atlantic Theater Company earlier this year.
Original Off-Broadway cast members Larry Bryggman (Twelve Angry Men, Proof), Jim Frangione, Steven Goldstein and Steven Hawley are joined in Los Angeles by Noah Bean, Ed Begley, Jr. and Todd Weeks.
In Romance,
It was a fine affair for Darcie Denkert's A Fine Romance. The book, which is about the musical love affair between Broadway and Hollywood, had its release party on October 20 at the Times Square Studios. Subtitled "The Magic. The Mayhem. The Musicals," the tome is an amalgam of everyone--and everything--you'd want to know about material that went from Broadway to Hollywood and vice versa. Several Broadway stars were on hand to toast the author--and to help the terrific causes that the book serves: all proceeds benefit the Actors' Fund as well as the Motion Picture Television Fund.
Source: broadway.com
Catherine Kean, a romance writer, will be the featured speaker at today's 7 p.m. meeting of the Gateway Writer's Group at the DeBary Art League Studio.
Kean will offer information to help other writers get their stories into print and avoid having their manuscripts placed in the publisher's slush pile.
The studio is at 155 S. U.S. Highway 17-92 in DeBary.
Band shell concert
The North Country Band will perform at 7 p.m. Sunday at a free concert at the Daytona Beach band shell, on the beach near the Hilton Resort in Daytona Beach.
The band, which formed as a trio in 1993,
Romance may be in the air for two of the better-known House members: Entertainer Sonny Bono's widow and the son of a former U.S. senator.
Members of the Florida delegation have been atwitter over frequent sightings of Reps. Mary Bono, R-Calif., and Connie Mack IV, R-Fla., on Capitol Hill.
Both Bono and Mack recently announced their marriages were ending.
Bono announced her separation from second husband Glenn Baxley last month, and Mack announced his separation from wife Ann in August.
When asked Friday about the relationship, Mack chief of staff Jeff Cohen would only say: "Connie's marriage was in trouble for a long
In a cultural landmark of sorts, a mainstream American theater production will explore the lessons learned in a comic cross-cultural encounter as an American travel writer visits Agra in Tanya Shaffer's play "Baby Taj." The play, produced by TheatreWorks, will run at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Mountain View, California.
"It's an interaction between two cultures, two worlds and hopefully they both all the characters learn something from each other," Shaffer said during an interview. Shaffer, whose previous award-winning solo performance play "Let My Enemy Live Long!"was called "a tour de force of observation and evocation"