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The Biggest Winner: 'Big Ballet' Reality TV Premiere Garners Mixed Reviews, Asking Real Questions About Body Image in the Arts
'Witness Uganda' Takes Home Another Richard Rogers Award for Production in Musical Theater, Opening Soon in Cambridge
Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews co-wrote Witness Uganda--a story of a young New York City local named Griffin who volunteers for a Ugandan project to try and change the world. The play, now, has garnered enough attention and praise to receive the coveted Richard Rogers Production Award for Musical Theater. The Column: Steven Berkoff in Harold Pinter's 'Birthday Party' at Geffen Playhouse....What Did William Friedkin Expect?
Iconoclastic actor and director Steven Berkoff is in the news again. Let's face it, he has never been shy of standing up for his opinions in front of journalists (and nothing wrong with that), and now the Los Angeles Times carries his insistence that he quit the forthcoming (now delayed) production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. The show was to have opened this month at the Geffen Playhouse, also starring Tim Roth, but Berkoff, in the crucial role of the sinister Goldstein, has left, and the opening has been put back. William Friedkin, the show's director, says he was all but fired
