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Jeremy Shamos is every off-Broadway director’s secret weapon, whether the script is a comedy (Miss Witherspoon, Hunting and Gathering, Gutenberg! The Musical!), drama (100 Saints You Should Know, Animals Out of Paper) or—best of all—a comedy with dramatic heft, as in the current production of Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park at Playwrights Horizons. It’s ...

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Broadway audiences first fell in love with Cass Morgan almost 30 years ago when she and Debra Monk played sassy sister waitresses in the charming Tony-nominated musical Pump Boys and Dinettes. Since then, Morgan has repeatedly been cast as strong southern women, even though she hails from upstate New York. Currently playing feisty mom Gladys Calhoun in ...

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Playwright Matthew Lombardo has been professionally obsessed with great ladies for a long time. The scribe enjoyed success with his Katharine Hepburn bio-play, Tea at Five, starring Kate Mulgrew, which premiered at Hartford Stage and then played off-Broadway at the Promenade Theatre. Now Lombardo is making his Broadway debut with Looped. The show is another play based ...

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Tony Award winner Harriet Harris knows how to land a laugh. The sharp-witted actress has been busting guts on and off-Broadway for years in shows like Jeffrey, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Old Acquaintance, Cry-Baby and, of course, Thoroughly Modern Millie (which earned her that Tony trophy), making it look easy all the while. Harris is ...

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If there’s anyone used to the term “Broadway baby,” it’s A Little Night Music’s Ramona Mallory, currently making her Rialto debut as Anne in the hit revival of the classic Sondheim musical. Her role—the childlike teen bride of dashing lawyer Fredrik Egerman, played in this incarnation by Alexander Hanson—is one Mallory was ...

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We’ll never forget David Ogden Stiers’ Emmy-nominated performance on M*A*S*H as Major Charles Winchester, a character who managed to be both imperious and loveable. Since that iconic series ended, Renaissance man Stiers has kept busy acting, conducting symphony orchestras (!), doing voiceovers and animation work and—over the past six years—playing General Henry ...

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Robert Petkoff is versatile enough to play the cowardly knight Sir Robin in Spamalot (on tour and then on Broadway), Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest (at BAM, directed by Sir Peter Hall), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (at Hartford Stage) and now a rather sexy Tateh in the Broadway revival of Ragtime. When Broadway.com ...

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As if directing her first off-Broadway musical (Vanities) and collecting rave reviews in New Haven as Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (a production that’s headed off-Broadway in March 2010) weren’t enough, Judith Ivey has spent the fall giving a winning performance as advice columnist Ann Landers in David Rambo’s The Lady With All ...