"tony-silveria" Articles & Blogs:
Encourage teen drivers to 'Make The Right Choice' during Prom and Graduation season
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Congressman Jim Himes and The Century Council (a national not-for-profit organization funded by distillers dedicated to fighting drunk driving and underage drinking) recently brought a life-saving lesson about the dangers of drunk driving and underage dr...[Read on] |
Marcia Milgrom Dodge: A Director’s Story
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Marcia Milgrom Dodge has been working as a theatre director for 30 years. This past year she made it to Broadway for the first time with the critically-lauded production of Ragtime.
The show did not make it, but Milgrom Dodge and the production receiv...[Read on] |
Are Team Jennifer and Team Angelina the New Stuarts and Tudors?
| The feuding queens of Tony-nominated Mary Stuart call to mind a pair of Hollywood divas.
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Astor Trial Wrap-up: How Anthony Marshall Sentenced Himself to Jail
| Brooke Astor and Anthony Marshall at her estate Holly Hill, in Briarcliff Manor, New York, circa December 2001. Photograph by Alec Marshall. Charlene Marshall tends to dominate any room that she is in. As her 85-year-old husband, Anthony Marshall—ga...[Read on] |
The Special Relationship doesn’t do justice to Hillary Clinton
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Here’s a bit about something that’s been bothering me for a couple of days since I saw the film on HBO.
I remember being excited when they announced the cast for The Special Relationship, the third in the trilogy of Michael Sheen taking on Tony Bla...[Read on] |
Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity Symposium
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The Women’s Initiative presents,
“Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity,”
December 4, 2010 at The Players Club
16 Gramercy Park South (at 20th Street),
New York, NY
1:00pm to 5:00pm.
The Symposium will feature keynote speaker Julia Jordan...[Read on] |
Lynn Redgrave Passes Away at Age 67
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Lynn Redgrave, 67, passed away in her Connecticut home on Sunday, a spokesperson for her family announced today. Redgrave received Oscar nominations for her performances in “Georgy Girl” and “Gods and Monsters.” She also received a...[Read on] |
Women onstage this season
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Earlier this spring I wrote how excited I was to see so many amazing women appearing on the NY stage this season. New Yorkers are lucky to get all the indie films as well as the opportunity to see such great theatre if you can afford it.
I’ve gotten ...[Read on] |
“To Japan With Love” Concert to Feature Yoko Ono and Patti Smith
| Patti Smith and Yoko Ono will perform Tuesday night in Manhattan to raise funds for Japanese relief. Photographs from PatrickMcMullan.com.
Tuesday night, Manhattan’s Le Poisson Rouge will host “To Japan With Love,” a benefit concert featuring avant-...[Read on] |
Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid Cast for Clinton Movie
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Will Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore be moving into the White House?Post | Today 4:00 pm
Hillary and Bill Clinton may soon find themselves on HBO. And they could be played by appropriately A-list actors.
Though nothing has been set in stone, HBO exec...[Read on] |
Theatre Watch: Life pretty much sucked for women on Broadway this year
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Even though women buy the lion’s share of theatre tickets, it still seems that it is virtually impossible for women playwrights to get their shows mounted on Broadway. Usually there are great roles from women in male written shows, but this year there...[Read on] |
Sister, Sister
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Everybody needs a sister– at least if the results of a new study from the University of Ulster in Ireland hold true. Researchers at the school recently asked 571 people ages 17 to 25 about their lives and discovered that the ones who grew up with sister...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood in the Press
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Women & Hollywood is featured in Ellen Snortland’s column in the Pasadena Weekly.
I’ve been a fan of two women in particular who keep track of women and Hollywood. Melissa Silverstein publishes a weekly newsletter, “Women and Hollywood,” and blog...[Read on] |
Opponents sparring in boxing debate
| The Australian Medical Association wants to ban children (under 18, do you suppose?) from boxing, and put strict laws in place to control the sport. One doctor in favor of the ban pointed to the injury rate in “non-contact sports” such as rugb...[Read on] |
Actress Profile: Blair Brown
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If you’re a big fan of Fringe like I am you were psyched to see Blair Brown as Nina Sharp the mysterious woman who runs the day to day operations at the multi-national corporation Massive Dynamics. Nina also has intense bionic type arm that without sk...[Read on] |
The Tonys and Hollywood
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photo by Brian Bedder/Getty Images
Last night one of the things that was so interesting about the Tony Awards was that three of the four acting trophies were taken by current Hollywood actors. Catherine Zeta-Jones won best actress in a musical for A ...[Read on] |
An interview with Ada Lovelace
| This morning, I went to the Science Museum to talk to Ada Lovelace herself about Charles Babbage, his computing machines, and her vision and brilliance.
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Nike+: Men vs Women challenge
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Haven’t seen this in the U.S. but in Europe, Nike has launched an integrated campaign called “Men vs. Women.” The goal is to motivate athletes to enjoy running in completely new ways.
With Gnarls Barkley crooning through their earbuds, with the ...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: Go with the wind
| (Editors Note: Composer – and good friend – Eve Beglarian recently embarked on a year long odyssey kayaking the length of the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. This is one in a series of journal en...[Read on] |
First women elected to Hockey Hall of Fame
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The Hockey Hall of Fame is no longer just for men.
Hockey pioneers Cammi Granato and Angela James changed that on Tuesday when they became the first women elected to be enshrined in Toronto. Along with former NHL All-Star Dino Ciccarelli, Granato and Ja...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
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Enron by Lucy Prebble
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the most prestigious international prize awarded to a female playwright (for writing in English) has named the ten finalists for the 2010 award. The award is basically the Pulitzer for women. It ...[Read on] |
Theatre Awards
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The arrival of marks the end of the theatre season here in NY so it’s awards time. The Tony Awards just deal with Broadway plays and there are other awards that include both Broadway and off-Broadway. I always find the mixed awards so fascinating be...[Read on] |
Twilight Eclipse arrives in five days
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It’s beginning.
I’m glad the din about this one has been a bit muted (at least in my world).
But that’s now over.
Several thousand people from across the country camped out for days in order to get a spot on the red carpet for last night’s pr...[Read on] |
The Double Standard for Women
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Julia Roberts’ film Duplicity opens on Friday. It’s really good. It’s good for a lot of reasons — it’s smart, it’s funny, it has great twists — which is why it should have very broad appeal. But it is a movie for adults, you actually have...[Read on] |
What Bigelow Effect? Women Directors to Acheive Parity in 2060…Maybe
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I’m a little late to this party but I wanted to give a big shout out to Elisabeth Rappe at Film.com for her awesome and thorough piece: In What Year Will Female Directors Make Up Half the Workforce?
She makes some really great points and reiterat...[Read on] |
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