From the ArchivesFROM THE ARCHIVES: 2-Time Tony Winner Judith Light's 10 Favorite Theatregoing ExperiencesIn 2012 Emmy and Tony winner Light, who was then starring in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, shared the Broadway performances that most affected her as part of the audience.
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Andrew Gans
March 16, 2020
Judith Light
Marc J. Franklin
Judith Light, most recently seen on Broadway in Thérèse Raquin, won Tony Awards for her performances in Other Desert Cities and The Assembled Parties. In 2019 the Tony Awards honored the stage and screen star with the Isabelle Stevenson Award for her advocacy in LGBTQ+ rights and in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
While starring in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities in 2012, Light shared the 10 Broadway performances that most affected her as part of the audience.
Richard Burton demonstrating what Hamlet actually can be with such utter simplicity of performance and production.
The Play About the Baby
Brian Murray, Marian Seldes, David Burtka and Kathleen Early in The Play About the Baby.
Photo by Photo by Carol Rosegg
Marian Seldes and Brian Murray facing down a stunningly beautiful "Boy" in The Play About the Baby, leaving the audience feeling as naked as David Burtka.
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
Mercedes Ruehl and Bill Pullman in The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Carol Rosegg
Proving that Edward Albee can always push us up to higher levels.
Patti LuPone in Gypsy
Patti LuPone in GypsyJoan Marcus
Patti LuPone as Mama Rose: talk about dynamo!
The Normal Heart
Cast of The Normal HeartJoan Marcus
Performance that literally defined "not a dry eye in the house."
Frances McDormand in Good People
Tate Donovan and Frances McDormand in Good PeopleJoan Marcus
Beyond great.
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Celebrating Two-Time Tony Award Winner Judith Light
Celebrating Two-Time Tony Award Winner Judith Light
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Judith Light, Michael Chambers, and Liv Ullmann in A Doll's House
Judith Light and Paula Pizzi in the Off-Broadway production Wit.
Judith Light in Wit
Michael Rudko and Judith Light in the Shakespeare Theatre Company production Hedda Gabler.
Thomas Jay Ryan and Judith Light in the Shakespeare Theatre Company production Hedda Gabler.
Two-time Tony winner Nathan Lane, who will star in a one-night-only staged reading of The Man Who Came to Dinner next month to benefit the Roundabout Theatre Company, recently released a children's book entitled "Naughty Mabel," which he co-wrote with his husband Devlin Elliott. The Broadway favorite shares the performances that most affected him as part of the audience.
Playbill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
This week we spotlight the choices of five-time Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald, who is currently celebrating the release of her newest solo recording, "Go Back Home" (Nonesuch Records), with a multi-city concert tour that continues through December.
Playbill.com's feature series Their Favorite Things asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
This week we spotlight the choices of Olivier and two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone, whose "Favorite Things" are arranged chronologically by female artists, then male artists and, finally, show title.
Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will celebrate his new album, "Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs" (due Feb. 5 on the Yellow Sound Label), with a Feb. 8 concert at Carnegie Hall, where he will be joined by Kristin Chenoweth, Darren Criss and Ricki Lake. Here, the Cabaret star shares the performances that most affected him as part of the audience.
Playbill.com's new feature series, Their Favorite Things, asks members of the theatre community to share the Broadway performances that most affected them as part of the audience.
This week we spotlight the choices of multiple Tony winner Harvey Fierstein, who is currently represented on Broadway with the award-winning Newsies at the Nederlander Theatre and Kinky Boots at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. The world premiere of his first play in nearly 30 years, Casa Valentina, will open at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in April 2014, directed by Joe Mantello.
This week we spotlight the choices of Tony winner and Kennedy Center Honoree Barbara Cook, the iconic soprano who starred in the Broadway productions of The Music Man and Candide.
