Julie Harris

Bay Theatre brings Emily Dickinson to life in season finale

2012-04-15 07:59:13

In her end-of-season program note, Bay Theatre Company co-founder and artistic director Janet Luby refers to "the astonishing success of Bay Theatre's 2011-2012 season," and promised that this season's final production would do justice to the preceding...

Bay Theatre looks to build on successes in 10th season

2011-09-20 10:46:43

Bay Theatre founder Janet Luby could not conceal her delight as she announced that the first celebratory event of the coming season, a fashion show and fundraiser, had sold out nearly two months in advance. She's hoping it will be the first of many...

Michael Sragow's 13 great haunted house movies

2010-10-14 09:34:33

From the blog Michael Sragow Gets Reel: It hasn't been a great era for haunted-house movies. The third version of "House of Wax," in 2005, was awful enough to kill off the form, at least as far as big American studios were concerned. The day my review...

Yale Crash Victim's Play Opens As Family Marks First Anniversary Of Her Death

2013-05-24 17:18:13

On the night before the first anniversary of the death of Marina Keegan, the 22-year-old writer who was killed in a car crash on Cape Cod days after graduating magna cum laude from Yale, her play "Utility Monster" will have its world premiere at the...

UCLA Festival of Preservation turns spotlight on Julie Harris, TV

2013-03-15 05:00:00

The UCLA Film & Television Archive's Festival of Preservation turns its spotlight on the small screen with a tribute Saturday to the television work of an award-winning actress and a celebration March 23 of an acclaimed but short-lived ABC anthology...

Charles Durning dies at 89; Tony winner also got Oscar, Emmy nods

2012-12-25 08:22:00

Charles Durning, a Tony Award-winning actor whose prolific work in films and television included supporting roles in the classic comedy "Tootsie" and the TV sitcom "Evening Shade," died Monday. He was 89. Durning, a decorated veteran of World War II,...

Our Laguna: Playhouse fundraiser a California dream

2012-11-23 09:43:52

More than $100,000 was raised at the Laguna Playhouse California Dreamin' fundraiser held Nov. 16 at Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort & Spa in Dana Point. Founded in 1920, the Playhouse may be one of the oldest continuously operating theaters on the West...

Edward Gorey's gothic tales from the vault

2012-10-26 10:00:00

Twelve years after his death on tax day 2000, Edward Gorey — writer, illustrator, Victorian aesthete born half a century too late — has earned an adjective all his own: "Goreyesque." The word is used, increasingly, to refer to anything that...

Sue Mengers dies at 79; top talent agent

2011-10-16 19:28:00

Sue Mengers, an unapologetically brash talent agent who blazed a path for women in Hollywood and represented some of its biggest stars, died Saturday night at her Beverly Hills home after a long illness. She was 79. For two decades, Mengers was one of...

The new talkies: Audible is ready for its Hollywood close-up

2011-09-29 21:33:02

Great Old Broad Series: Estelle Parsons

2012-05-09 03:55:00

Last Sunday's screening at New Haven's Lyric Hall of the documentary "Broads,"that features salty, outspoken interviews with actresses of a certain age remind me of some of my own favorite interviews of like-minded dames. I'll post a series of these...

This weekend: ‘True Blood’ returns; ‘Mad Men’ season ends; Neil Patrick Harris hosts Tonys

2012-06-08 16:46:10

And now for a digression on theory. In the new millennium everyone seems to be an auteurist, lionizing directors who have recognizable trademarks, down-playing the importance of a script or cast to a finished film.

2010-10-14 05:42:28