VIDEO: Barbra Streisand Talks Inequality of the Sexes in Hollywood
In a recent interview with CNN Barbra Streisand spoke about women directors in Hollywood and why she believes they still do not enjoy the same success as their male counterparts. 'I just don't think they've come far enough,' says the Academy Award winner. 'Women still get paid seventy seven cents on the dollar and we're not really equal yet.' Check out the interview in full below!
STAGE TUBE: Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and More Arrive at 40th Annual Chaplin Awards!
The Film Society of Lincoln Center presented the 40th Chaplin Award honoring Academy Award-winner Barbra Streisand yesterday, April 22, at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center. The celebration in honor of the international film legend's groundbreaking career featured musical performances and film and interview clips culminating in the presentation of The Chaplin Award by President Bill Clinton. Below, watch video interviews from the arrivals, featuring Streisand, Liza Minnelli and many more!
Barbra Streisand Says 'Yes' to Still Planning on GYPSY Film
In a Q&A for the The New York Times, Barbra Streisand took the time to answer readers' questions about her current and future projects. When asked 'Are you still planning to play Momma Rose in 'Gypsy'?' by a reader in Seattle, Streisand simply responded, 'Yes.'
Barbra Streisand Out as Director of SKINNY AND CAT Film
Showbiz411 reports exclusively that Barbra Streisand will no longer direct the upcoming film SKINNY AND CAT. The project, starring Colin Firth and Cate Blanchett, would have marked her first time in the director's chair in 16 years.
A Noise Within Announces TOBACCO ROAD Reading, 1/8
A Noise Within (ANW), the acclaimed classical repertory theatre company, offers a free, one-night-only reading of JACK KIRKLAND's powerful drama TOBACCO ROAD on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 7 pm, in its new state-of-the-art Pasadena theatre. Directed by Apollo Dukakis and featuring A Noise Within resident artists, this Depression-Era Broadway blockbuster, which exposes the South's social and racial injustices with biting satirical humor, portrays an ignorant, dysfunctional and hardscrabble family of Georgia sharecroppers whose spirits are as depleted as the soil in which they toil. Family patriarch Jeeter Lester and his clan are caught up in the excesses of evangelism and the dark side of lust as they strive just to survive the devastation of poverty. Tobacco Road, based on the novel by Erskine Caldwell, holds the record as the second longest running non-musical in Broadway history.
La Jolla Playhouse's Inventive Adaptation of PEER GYNT Closes
La Jolla Playhouse presents Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by David Schweizer, running June 28 - July 24 (media night: Wednesday, July 6 at 7:30 pm) in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Tickets to Peer Gynt are available by calling the Box Office: (858) 550-1010 or online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org.
La Jolla Playhouse Presents Inventive Adaptation of PEER GYNT, 6/28-7/24
La Jolla Playhouse presents Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by David Schweizer, running June 28 - July 24 (media night: Wednesday, July 6 at 7:30 pm) in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Tickets to Peer Gynt are available by calling the Box Office: (858) 550-1010 or online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org.
La Jolla Playhouse Presents Inventive Adaptation of PEER GYNT, 6/28-7/24
La Jolla Playhouse presents Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by David Schweizer, running June 28 - July 24 (media night: Wednesday, July 6 at 7:30 pm) in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Tickets to Peer Gynt are available by calling the Box Office: (858) 550-1010 or online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org.
American Blues Theatre Presents AMERICAN BLUES, 3/8
American Blues Theater (ABT), Chicago's second oldest Equity Ensemble, presents a benefit performance of 'American Blues - Collected One-Acts' by Tennessee Williams on the Victory Gardens Biograph mainstage, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, from 6:00 - 10 p.m. Guest artist E. Fay Butler will perform during the pre-benefit VIP reception from 5 - 6 p.m. The evening will be emceed by ABT Board Secretary Joan Esposito, co-founder of J2SC. For more information call (312) 725 - 4228, email info@americanbluestheater.com or visit www.americanbluestheater.com.
American Blues Theatre Presents AMERICAN BLUES, 3/8
American Blues Theater (ABT), Chicago's second oldest Equity Ensemble, presents a benefit performance of 'American Blues - Collected One-Acts' by Tennessee Williams on the Victory Gardens Biograph mainstage, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, from 6:00 - 10 p.m. Guest artist E. Fay Butler will perform during the pre-benefit VIP reception from 5 - 6 p.m. The evening will be emceed by ABT Board Secretary Joan Esposito, co-founder of J2SC. For more information call (312) 725 - 4228, email info@americanbluestheater.com or visit www.americanbluestheater.com.
Birmingham Festival Theatre Closes TOBACCO ROAD, 8/7
Tobacco Road will delight and astound you with its humorous and biting look at the lives of sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, trapped by poverty in rural Georgia as their living standards steadily decline. This powerful drama, adapted from the controversial novel by Erskine Caldwell, invites us to laugh at our shortcomings.
Birmingham Festival Theatre Presents TOBACCO ROAD, 7/29-8/7
Tobacco Road will delight and astound you with its humorous and biting look at the lives of sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, trapped by poverty in rural Georgia as their living standards steadily decline. This powerful drama, adapted from the controversial novel by Erskine Caldwell, invites us to laugh at our shortcomings.
Birmingham Festival Theatre Presents TOBACCO ROAD, 7/29-8/7
Tobacco Road will delight and astound you with its humorous and biting look at the lives of sharecropper Jeeter Lester and his family, trapped by poverty in rural Georgia as their living standards steadily decline. This powerful drama, adapted from the controversial novel by Erskine Caldwell, invites us to laugh at our shortcomings.
American Blues Theater Presents TOBACCO ROAD, Closes 6/20
American Blues Theater, Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble company, continues its 2009-2010 season with 'Tobacco Road' by Jack Kirkland, directed by Cecilie Keenan May 21- June 20. Press opening is Thursday, May 27 at 7 p.m.
STAGE TUBE: Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli and More Arrive at 40th Annual Chaplin Awards!
by Stage Tube - Apr 23, 2013