Amy Morton

Tony nominations' heart is with 'Kinky Boots,' 'Matilda'

2013-05-01 05:00:00

NEW YORK — About seven years ago, the Broadway producer Daryl Roth saw an oddball British movie called "Kinky Boots," about a struggling shoemaker who turns to the fetish-footwear business, and had a flash of inspiration. "Not everyone I talked to...

Tony Awards 2013 nominees: Complete list

2013-04-30 05:32:00

The 2013 Tony nominations were announced�Tuesday morning in New York by multiple Tony winner Sutton Foster and "Modern Family" actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson. "Bring It On," "A Christmas Story," "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda: The Musical" were nominated as...

Tonys 2013: 'Vanya and Sonia,' 'Lucky Guy' lead play nominees

2013-04-30 07:02:00

NEW YORK -- The Tony nominations announcement Tuesday morning brought good news to Christopher Durang’s dysfunctional-family tale "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and the late Nora Ephron's period journalism weepie "Lucky Guy" with the two...

Tonys 2013: Tom Hanks seeks a new kind of prize

2013-04-30 07:38:00

NEW YORK -- Can Tom Hanks add a Tony Award to his crowded mantle? That’s one of many questions that emerged after the Tony committee announced its acting nominations Tuesday morning, with Hanks' name on the shortlist for best actor in a play for...

Tonys 2013: Bette Midler, 'Motown' among nomination snubs

2013-04-30 09:18:00

NEW YORK--The Tony Awards committee always loves a good surprise or three. Members did not disappoint Tuesday morning, leaving out audience favorites like “Motown: The Musical” and critical darlings such as Bette Midler in favor of less...

Nine Tribeca Film Festival titles you'll soon be hearing about

2013-04-29 15:53:00

NEW YORK--The Tribeca Film Festival that ended Sunday occupies an odd niche in the movie-confab calendar, which among its oddities includes a large number of posts about the odd niche it occupies in the movie-confab calendar. But amid all the hand-...

Tribeca 2013: 'Mad Men's' John Slattery takes an indie-film turn

2013-04-20 16:18:00

NEW YORK--As Roger Sterling on "Mad Men," John Slattery plays� it brash, slick and� debauched. But even a hard-drinking womanizer needs a break once in a� while. And so it was that Slattery found himself in Maine last year starring as Richard, a...

Personality drives this Tribeca Film Festival

2013-04-16 19:20:00

NEW YORK — In 11 previous editions, the Tribeca Film Festival has showcased dozens of glitzy studio productions and stars — Tobey Maguire and his "Spider-Man 3" crew rode into town in 2007, Tom Cruise opened "Mission: Impossible III" here in...

Brad Pitt's politics, Michael Haneke's life top 2013 Tribeca slate

2013-03-05 11:00:00

World premieres of new dramas starring Adam Driver and Naomi Watts, a nonfiction look at director Michael Haneke and a documentary about African oil-drilling executives produced by Brad Pitt are to be among the films in competition at this year's...

2012 in review: Teamwork enlivens the theater world

2012-12-15 10:00:00

Could the theater artist of 2012 really be … Samuel Beckett? Well, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner had stiff competition this year from Anton Chekhov, dead for more than a hundred years but more alive than ever onstage. Chekhov's early play "Ivanov"...

Tracy Letts plays his part in illuminating Edward Albee's 'Woolf'

2012-12-01 07:00:00

NEW YORK — Tracy Letts has his hands full these days writing plays and preparing for the release of the movie version of his Pulitzer-Prize-winning drama, "August: Osage County." But he's added another formidable task to his agenda: elucidating...

‘August: Osage County’ pic gets shiny new name: George Clooney

2012-06-18 16:39:40

Tracy Letts and Amy Morton of Steppenwolf Theatre acknowledge the audience on the opening night of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Booth Theatre in New York.

2012-10-15 07:47:00

Amy Morton (right, with Kathleen Robertson) stars as gubernatorial candidate Sen. Catherine Walsh in the Starz drama "Boss." The Tony nominee and Oak Park native is well known on the stages of Chicago.

2012-09-14 15:42:00

In Enda Walsh's delicious, modern riff on one strand of Homer's "Odyssey," now in its Chicago premiere at the Steppenwolf Theatre under the stellar direction of Amy Morton, four middle-aged men in Speedos lust for Penelope, who has waited 20 years for her hubby Odysseus to return from the wars.

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